Watching "The Hate You Give": Fortunately, the troubles of our youth are small things

Eusebio 2022-03-29 09:01:09

Starr is a beautiful black girl who grew up in the black ghetto, Garden Heights. Drugs and violence are rampant in the Garden Heights, where the king's gang of princes run their business. Starr's best friend, Eliza, was killed by the Prince Gang, when Eliza was only ten years old. Starr witnessed the entire process of Alyssa's death.

Starr's father used to be a former gang member of the Prince's Gang, but his father changed his mind after being released from prison and now runs a grocery store. He taught Starr since he was a child that when confronted by the police, he should cooperate with the police's work, put his hands where the police can see, answer the police's questions honestly, don't talk too much, don't pick up things that fall, etc. .

Although the mother acquiesced to her father's practice, she has been seeking change, and at the same time trying to get out of this black gathering place. To this end, she made her three children study hard. But schools in Garden Heights aren't a great place, and drugs and violence are still mainstream. For the long-term development of the children, the mother sent the children to Williamson School, far away from Garden Heights. This is a high-quality private school, but it belongs to the gathering place of white people.

At Williamson School, Starr lived and studied happily, with her boyfriend Charles who liked her, and two white best friends. However, in Williamson, Starr carefully concealed the fact that he was from the ghetto. According to himself, she doesn't shout here, she is polite and quality. He is also very careful when he speaks and never speaks black slang so as not to reveal his identity. Originally living according to this logic, everything will go smoothly. Starr will be admitted to university, and will fall in love with the rich second generation who loves her. With the success of her studies, her family will also move out from the poor and chaotic place in Garden Heights. . Everything was full of hope, but it was all ruined by a shooting.

At a party in Garden Heights, Starr meets his first love, Khalil. Khalil is a handsome lad who grew up in Garden Heights with Starr Eliza, and their favorite game to play is Harry Potter's wand. Starr was very happy to see Karil, and started chatting with Karil cordially. But just as the two were chatting, gunshots rang out at the party. In the chaos, Khalil dragged Starr out of the party.

In the car to take Starr home, Khalil tells Starr that he is dealing drugs in order to treat his grandmother. Starr knew that this was impossible, after all, everyone lived like this in their place. Discussing 2Pac's music in the car, Carrier told Starr that Tupac's music was great. Tupac sings in the lyrics: "The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody" (the hatred you give to the children will kill everyone sooner or later), the abbreviation is THUG LIFE, which is the title of the film "The Hate U Give" , which is also the highlight of the film.

Not long after saying this, their car was targeted by the police. When Khalil parked the car on the side of the road, Starr kept his father's teachings in mind, put his hands on the dashboard obediently, and reminded Khalil to put his hands where the police could see. But Khalil was young and vigorous, felt that he had done nothing wrong, and did not cooperate with the police inspection. Just when Khalil took out his comb from the car and was about to comb his hair, the police mistook Khalil for a gun and shot Khalil to death.

And Starr witnessed the whole process from start to finish.

The incident of Khalil being killed by the police was pushed to the forefront, and Starr was also involved in the center of the whirlpool of the incident. Facing the tragic murder of another childhood friend, Starr was extremely saddened. Starr originally thought that the white policeman would be punished by the law, but all public opinion was on the side of the white policeman. Starr's uncle, who is also a police officer, told Starr that many people think that the behavior of the white policeman is not a crime, but a little error in the routine inspection. Therefore, the white policeman should not be punished.

Starr, who grew up in the greenhouse, couldn't understand it at all. She decided not only to bravely face the media and tell the truth, but also to stand in court to fight for justice for Khalil's death. But because of Khalil's identity as a drug dealer, the Prince Gang was afraid that Starr would tell the truth about their drug trafficking, so they intimidated the Starr family and warned Starr not to appear in court. In fact, Starr was also full of struggles at this time, because she was afraid that after the TV station exposure, her identity would be recognized by her classmates. Starr's mother also did not support Starr to come forward, she believes that the future is the most important. But Starr didn't stand up when Alyssa was killed, so why didn't he stand up when Khalil was killed?

Starr was caught in a dilemma. You have to watch the content to find out later.

The film itself does not focus on time itself, but on the impact of this incident on Starr's heart, allowing her to see the whole picture of this incident more deeply. Is it because of white racism? Or is it because of the broken jars of the black community? At the end of the film, the answer is given.

The film has a good starting point, a 16-year-old black girl who grew up in a mixed culture of black and white. Such events, whether black or white, have only one result, and that is opposition. And Starr, as a blender of the two cultures, may bring more pain and thinking. This may also be the result of deep thinking by the creator of the film after observing the escalating conflict between black and white in recent years. Indeed, the disappearance of racial discrimination alone seems to be useless.

However, considering such a thought, 127 minutes is a little long. This story can be told in 100 minutes, and it takes 20 minutes more to tell the procrastination. Again, the ending of the movie is really beautiful. In reality, there are so many beautiful things. It may also be the sustenance of film creators for a better future. After all, a movie can't take him as reality.

Talking about the biggest disadvantage of the movie is that the heroine laughs too sweetly. Sweet makes people feel that this little girl has no grief in her heart. Without the little girl's sweet smile like the moon, this movie could at least go to a higher level.

After comparing "Dog Thirteen", I am really fortunate. Fortunately, there are no such serious racial incidents in my country, and the troubles of our youth are only small things.

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  • Garnet 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    Seriously Khalil is asking for it, the police is the normal tone of law enforcement when he asks him to stop and get his driver's license, but he keeps playing tricks again and again. Of course I'm not saying the cop was right to shoot him, but over the years Is it overkill to describe how pitiful and innocent black people are in the black movies that have been made all the time? Before we criticize us for discriminating against black people, let's see what they have done. There are some civilized, law-abiding, smart and friendly black people, but there are a lot of black people who are despised by others anyway. If we really want the society to face up to this racial issue, we should look at how black people live instead of blindly exalting people to show pity and sympathy, which will be counterproductive! This heroine is very beautiful and not very black. Many Air Jordan shoes are envious! And I heard Billy's "Ocean Eyes" plus one star.

  • Darius 2022-03-30 09:01:10

    The interpretation of racial issues from the perspective of teenagers is innovative but still not profound enough.

The Hate U Give quotes

  • Starr Carter: [to cops] How many more of us do you have to kill before you get it?

  • Maverick 'Mav' Carter: [from the trailer] I didn't name you Starr by accident.