This is a messy and complicated topic and the film treats it as messy and complicated. The Hate U Give also never tries to simplify the point it's making for the audience.
Points also go to Anthony Mackie simply for being willing to play a role about as far from his MCU type as it is possible to be. Additional shout-outs need to be given to Russell Hornsby as Starr's father who is as supporting and nurturing as any cinema father in recent memory. While it's difficult to guess if an actress this young will actually garner an Oscar nomination, it seems impossible she won't at least be part of the conversation. From joy at one end of the spectrum to rage at the other, you feel all of it. Happily, she is up to the task and then some. The role of Starr is, quite literally, a star-making turn for Amandla Stenberg. It's about understanding what happens on the other side of the gun and the systemic problems at play.
THE HATE YOU GIVE NETFLIX MOVIE
The movie isn't about him, or his perspective. In fact, after the incident, the cop is barely seen again. The officer involved in the shooting could have been played as a stronger "villain," but that doesn't happen. What may be the most interesting about it, however, isn't what it says or does, but what it avoids doing. The tightrope being walked by The Hate U Give is handled successfully thanks to a strong screenplay written by Audrey Wells ( A Dog's Purpose) and directed by George Tillman Jr. This sort of material could easily come across as too over the top and preachy, but it never does. Starr's boyfriend is well-meaning, but he doesn't actually know what he's talking about when he spouts platitudes about race to his girlfriend. One of Starr's friends turns out to be less than friendly when Starr's activism begins to sprout.
Starr is forced to confront both of her lives and decide what she values most as she's the only one who can speak about what really happened. However, Starr's two worlds collide together when she finds herself in the passenger seat of a car driven by a friend from the neighborhood, Khalil (Algee Smith), when he is shot and killed by a white cop with a nervous trigger finger during a questionable traffic stop. She's got friends (Megan Lawless and Sabrina Carpenter) and even a white boyfriend (KJ Apa), all of which she keeps at arm's length from the rest of her life. Starr sees herself as living two lives, referring to her "at school" life as Starr 2.0, where she does her best to fit in and be as unlike her "home" self as possible. This area is far better off, and not coincidentally, far more white. However, in an attempt to help raise them out of such a life, Starr's parents send her and her siblings to a private school in another part of town. She, her parents, and her two brothers live in a part of town that would politely be referred to as the "other side of the tracks." The area is mostly black and mostly poor. Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) is a teenage girl who is caught between two worlds.
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