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King neatly overlays her support of her husband with the counterpoint of maternal fear. Also exceptional is Hornsby as a man with the intelligence to see how an unjust system contributed to his unlawful path while taking personal responsibility to effect change. Amandla Stenberg shoulders the entire film, every conflict simmering within her building a head of steam, the quiet student convincingly turned vocal social justice warrior. In the midst of all this chaos, Chris takes Starr to their prom and once again we see the ideological split within Maverick and Lisa's otherwise loving marriage when Starr's dad learns her boyfriend is white. Local organizer April Ofrah (Issa Rae) convinces Starr to testify and Garden Heights descends into the madness of Ferguson.
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Racial conflict comes to the fore at Starr's high school, where white students enjoy skipping tests to protest and Hailey tries to justify what happened.
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We see the conflict between the drug trade and family run businesses in a poor black neighborhood, code switching, victim smearing, gun violence and the perils of speaking out against injustice. Then Starr and her family are threatened by Garden Height's drug lord, King (Anthony Mackie), who Maverick once worked for and who does not want to be associated with his latest recruit, Khalil. Her interrogators are astonished when she's whisked out by one of their own, Starr's Uncle Carlos (Common). After the shooting, Starr is handcuffed and taken to the police station where her questioning revolves more around Khalil's background than Officer MacIntosh's (Drew Starkey) behavior. Then a revolving light goes on behind them. They share a kiss, Starr informing him of her boyfriend while he states a willingness to wait. Their quiet conversation in his car is illuminating, Khalil forced down the same path as Maverick to care for a cancer-ridden grandmother. They and another girl (we'll learn her fate later) were childhood friends and Khalil clearly carries a torch for Starr, so when a fight breaks out, he quickly gets her out of there to get her home safely. She runs into Khalil, overjoyed to see her. Starr's meeting her Garden Heights friend, Kenya (Dominique Fishback, HBO's 'The Deuce'), to go to a house party. He asks her out on a Saturday night and she asks if they can go Sunday instead.
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Still, she has never allowed Chris to come to her house, instead setting meeting places within his comfort zone. Walking down a crowded school corridor, Starr informs us 'Slang makes them cool,' but although her friends have appropriated her language, if she uses it it 'makes her hood.' She gets side eye from rich white girls who see her with Chris, but enjoys close friendship with Hailey (Sabrina Carpenter) and Maya (Megan Lawless). Safety and justice are both important in the Carter household, but as she grows older, Starr will realize they cannot both be equally upheld.
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Maverick is giving his kids 'the talk,' a ritual known to most black American families that their white counterparts couldn't even conceive of, about how to behave submissively around police officers, before asking them to recite pieces of the Black Panthers' Ten-Point Program. Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr.'s ("The Master") camera finds a warmly lit house and snakes through a front window to find a family sitting formally around a dining room table. ("The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete") has elicited rich and varied performances from his large ensemble cast while mining all level of nuances from his story. Adapted from Angie Thomas's YA novel (named for Tupac Shakur's Thug Life acronym) by Audrey Wells ("Under the Tuscan Sun"), this powerful film gives us so much empathy for its characters you cannot fail to be outraged at the systemic injustice it depicts. It is unfortunate that the people who need to see this film the most, those who do not 'get' the Black Lives Matter movement, are the least likely to step up and buy a ticket.