Okay... so this movie is very well directed, the acting is great, the message is great... but the writing is a little bit unrealistic. It is supposed to be like a modern day Bonnie and Clyde focusing on the police brutality and social justice issues that are important right now.
So it starts with Queen and Slim on a date that's going... kind of badly. Queen mentions she's a lawyer and she has a client that was executed and she's upset about that but she didn't want to cancel the date because she liked how Slim looked... and it just kind of kept getting awkward.... and then he drove her home... which honestly is a little weird for someone you're just meeting to drive you home after a first date. My boyfriend and I kept going like "huh... wait a minute..."
And Slim gets pulled over for no reason and his car is searched for no reason without a warrant... and it looks like the cop is about to kill him- so he kills the cop first and they run away right away. At first they hitchhike with someone that turns out to be the sheriff... so they just lock him in the trunk of the car they abandon and... that is never really explained again... at least I don't think it is.
And there are a lot of moments like that. Like only a few hours after they almost get caught by the sheriff... and after they both ate-they stop at a diner to eat food... and... like they just ate on their date so it doesn't make all that much sense. And... this kind of kept happening. And it kept kind of making us mad. It also seemed weird that Queen is a lawyer but... she didn't really utilize that at all... I believe Slim's father was rich too but I don't think that really came into play. It was a little odd that they kept stopping places and almost getting caught... but they had a lot of people on their side so they made it.
The love scene in the movie was also a little weird. It was a love scene with cuts from a protest that is going on because of Queen and Slim in an attempt to free them. These are both important and powerful scenes... but I think they would have been better if they were on their own instead of going on simultaneously. It just kind of took away from the individual importance of the scenes... but that being said- I think it led to a nice pacing of the movie so... maybe that was better? It's hard to say.
So with all these problems of the movie... I still totally loved this movie and would recommend watching it. The director did a really beautiful job and it does use a lot of the same motifs from Bonnie and Clyde- but it seems so different told the way this movie tells it. It's also very sad because with Bonnie and Clyde- they were both criminals. In Queen and Slim they can't even rob a bank when they have no money and... it's a little heartbreaking that the ending is the same.
So overall I would definitely recommend this movie even if you may have to overlook some details that make it a little less realistic. In Bonnie and Clyde they did also do the same thing where they kept taking breaks when they really shouldn't have... so it makes sense in that regard but it's a very different perspective for the same type of movie.
Bye!
-Shannon
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