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TAKING its title from the cautionary message inked into rapper Tupac Shakur’s THUG LIFE tattoo, George Tillman Jr’s emotionally charged drama rages against racial division and police violence in a 21st-century America.
Amandla Stenberg delivers a gut-wrenching lead performance as Starr Carter who zigzags uncomfortably between worlds of white privilege and black indignation.
The teenage heroine keeps the two sides of her existence separate until she witnesses a white police officer shoot her unarmed childhood friend, Khalil (Algee Smith) dead. Racked with grief, she shoulders a heavy burden to speak up for the deceased.
The Hate U Give doesn’t project Starr’s journey of empowerment through a rose-tinted lens. Tillman Jr’s film ripples with fury and despair but an undercurrent of hope courses through every frame.
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