The very popular First Thursday Film Discussion group is taking the month of September off, but will return on Thursday, October 1 at 7p for a discussion of "The Hate U Give", adapted from Angie Thomas' young adult novel of the same name. Special thanks to the Baltimore County Coalition for leading and planning this event. Writing in Variety, critic Jessica Kiang called the film, "a brilliantly modulated balancing act between dark and light, anger and optimism, white privilege mined for pointed laughs and black fury portrayed as a galvanizing force for change. Entertaining, enraging, and ultimately deeply moving, “The Hate U Give” is poised to be a hit, and deserves to be." "Working from Audrey Wells’ lively if occasionally on-the-nose adapted screenplay, the great strength of Tillman’s film is a moral clarity as direct and challenging as skyrocketing star Amandla Stenberg’s wounded, courageous gaze. Without compromising the complexity of the issues raised, or condescending to the youth of its protagonists, “The Hate U Give” strides with absorbing, intelligent certainty through the desperately dangerous, uneven terrain of racially divided America." The film's star, Amandla Stenberg, won an NAACP Image Award for her portrayal of the teen-aged protagonist, Starr. Writing in Rolling Stone, Peter Travers said "It is impossible to over-praise Stenberg's incandescent performance, a gathering storm that grows in ferocity and feeling with each scene." Admission to the film discussion is free, but you must register here: REGISTER
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