African American Film Class

  The Hate U Give is a very interesting tale about the injustices that Black Americans have to face on a day-to-day basis. This story centers around the central character Star Carter, who is a young girl trying to navigate through her relationship around white people and black people. She lives in a neighborhood called Garden Heights, that is predominantly Black, but goes to a white private school away from her home. Star experiences two different worlds every day and tries very hard to keep them separate from one another. One day Starr is attending a party and starts hanging out with an old friend of hers named Khalil. Later on, Khalil offers to take Star home and they are stopped by the police for not putting on a signal at a lane change. Khalil is told to exit the car and he and the officer get into a disagreement. Khalil tries to reach for his hairbrush and is fatally shot by the police officer.   Starr is traumatized by this event she has witnessed, and the kil...

  This film entitled 40-year-Old version is a very comical and enlightening film. We come in contact with this main character named Radha who is a schoolteacher and has a great relationship with her students. She is also a playwright who is steadily trying to get her work seen and become successful. She has been working on a play about Harlem and the gentrification occurring within the inner city. She tries to sell this play to a white producer, Mr. Whitman, with the help of her longtime friend Archie. He wants to help but keeps making changes to her original idea of her play that Rodha doesn’t exactly agree on. Later on in the film, Rodha randomly starts a rap career under the name RadhaMUSprime. She stumbles upon a local producer in her area named D and they begin to work together in the studio. Their relationship begins to bloom from professional to more than just friends, but lovers. Rhonda has her first showcase and ends up messing it up badly and stops rapping.  Archie...

  The film One False Move is a story of three criminals Pluto, Ray, and Fantasia who are criminals that   commit six brutal murders over the course of one night in Los Angeles. The motives behind these murders are linked to finding cocaine and making money off of it as well. Many different actions throughout this film help support this title and I would like to share my opinion. When we talk about One False Move, many actions such as killings done by the criminals, the relationship between Fantasia and Dixon, and the krama seen at the end of the film all support that title.   First, with the murders supporting the idea of one false move. There are always choices in life and even in the opening scene where we see Ray, Pluto storm in after Fantasia has catched up with her old friends and acts as a distraction to ultimately rob them. They kill all the people there after asking and robbing them from what they have.  Later on they go to another house where they are l...

  Eye’s bayou is a gothic drama film that involves a prosperous Creole-American community in the state of Louisiana in the 1960’s. Eye being the youngest girl, her brother Poe and sister Celeste. The mother, Roz Batiste , a wealthy woman and Louis Batiste being the well-known Doctor within the town. The Batiste family hosted a party at their home one night. Later on, after the party is over Eve falls asleep and upon waking up from her sleep catches her dad having sex with a woman from the party.  This woman is also known as Matty Mereaux, who is a married woman herself. Eve does not confront her father about what she saw and instead tries to confront Cisely about it. Cisely does not believe Eve and instead tries to convince her that she didn't see what she thought she saw. Eve and her father’s relationship becomes very damaged due to her seeing her father being involved with multiple women throughout the film. Also, Cisely starts experiencing her period for the first time an...