Ladies and gentleman, the important time of Oscar season has come to electrify with important topics to learn, characters to sympathize for, and experiences anyone will never forget. Coincidentally, we have a film like “The Hate U Give” to feel our problems of what horrifying aspects are going on in our world today and how to create a strong rebellion about it. The director of this film, George Tillman, Jr. (Faster, Men of Honor), should be proud of creating the force and emotion of this fight for violence depicted in this film.

We meet a character named Starr (Amandla Stenberg), a confident young woman in every sense of the word as well as living in a family that describes it. Starr lives in an all-black rural neighborhood that has a grocery store, a barber shop, and a church. At high school, Starr finds a boy named Khalil, whom Starr immediately has a crush on. That makes both of them go to a party which is eventful and exciting, but later becomes dead ugly when a shootout devours the people there. This motivates both Starr and Khalil to get in their car and listen to old-school 2Pac. Meanwhile, a male white policeman shows up with glaring lights behind them and hatches right onto Khalil because he somewhat has to shoot him. Why you may ask? Because in his malicious mind, he wants to kill black people like a uproarious monster. Guess what? He does kill Khalil.

That being said, Starr feels like an incredibly different and sickened person to the point that he doesn’t want to communicate at school. Even her mother wants to move to a place that avoids all costs of violence which makes her father displeased.  Her fellow classmates think that instead of being satisfying and pleasant, she will stay quiet in her own regards until an important protest for Khalil catches her interest. That would move forward in a faithful and rebellious church which will improve her life into a more envigorous, complex environment.

Later last month, there was a film that displayed the topic of police brutality called “Monsters and Men”, where it showcased perspectives of three different people in each three acts. Sure that film was very unique in its way of storytelling, but it’s overall narrative in general was extremely weak making me not feel true, intrusive emotion that this film achieved way more.

“The Hate U Give” is such a moving, intrusive achievement in so many words where anyone can believe anything that happens in this film is utterly realistic. It is important for people to watch this film to show how people can really speak up for their rights, especially when something is really going in a stressful hassle.

Any award company existing should be ashamed and punished to snub the rousing Amandla Stenberg for her spellbinding and defensive performance that can arguably be the greatest and memorable performance anyone will see at the movies this year. The execution she puts into the character of Starr is audacious that it is hard to never see this in a modern movie after watching this ever again. The way she even communicates with a lot of classmates after the murder of Khalil is a real, fierce powerhouse to behold.

The same goes for Russell Hornsby as Starr’s delicate and loving father. He is a person that you do not want to see move his own house at first. He is a person that personally and rightfully stands up for the true meanings of illegal violence. There is even proof from a tattoo on his left arm where he lets his children see and repeat the lines in a certain scene. This is a true definition of a father where he has care and redemption for his family anytime and anyplace.

Also, I have never seen police like this since last year’s “Detroit” where you can just think, “This is just a massive, disgusting disgrace.” due to the massive hatred alluring. You feel uncontrollable when they are presenting glass shields to arrest anyone. You even feel like this is their world instead of yours when you are speaking to a megaphone that it is wrong for a police officer to kill a black person.

I imagine that there is a reason why this film was called “The Hate U Give”. It would be because of the late, great Tupac Shakur himself. He says quote-by-quote, “The Hate U Give Little Infants F*** Everybody”. That is what this film depicts in pure, powerful harmony. The Hate U Give is the best film of 2018. It recalls the madness of Oscar season like a poignant hawk.

Grade: 10/10