The hate you give hairbrush scene
The officer pats Khalil down and walks back to his car. Starr and Khalil flee the scene and are pulled over by a police officer for driving with a broken taillight. Starr has just started to catch up with Khalil-her best friend from childhood, who has entered the dangerous world of drug dealing since Starr began attending prep school-when a gang dispute leads to a dancefloor gunfight. At the party, Starr is acutely aware of the double-sided personality this lifestyle engenders: she tries not to act “ghetto” at school, but neighborhood kids accuse her of abandoning them for white friends. Starr’s family lives in Garden Heights, a predominantly black and impoverished urban neighborhood, but she and her brothers attend a ritzy and mostly white private school forty-five minutes away.
THE HATE YOU GIVE HAIRBRUSH SCENE MOVIE
The movie was an overall amazing and realistic depiction of the whole story.The novel opens on 16-year-old protagonist Starr Carter attending a spring break party with her friend, Kenya.
THE HATE YOU GIVE HAIRBRUSH SCENE FULL
This leads into a very symbolic scene of Starr holding a hairbrush over Hailey and yelling as if she were a cop.Įach scene leading to and including the climatic moment had the audience intrigued and full of emotions and tears. Hailey (Sabrina Carpenter), Starr’s friend, drops subtle racist comments throughout the movie which pull their friendship apart, but the main point was when she fed into the horrible stereotype and assumption about every black man that “he was probably going to die anyway”.
The movie also shows the reaction from those who try to justify the killing, including cops, members of the media, and a friend of Starr’s from Williamson Prep. Immediately following Kahlil’s funeral there was a march that was supposed to be peaceful but later on turned into a riot. Just like when incidents like this really happen the city went into protest mode. The movie and book follow Carter and the city’s reaction to an unarmed black boy being killed by an officer who confused a hairbrush with a gun, and the fight to get justice for Khalil. When the party starts to take a turn, Kahlil offers to take Starr home which leads to her seeing him get shot and killed by a white police officer. This is when she runs into her childhood friend Kahlil (Algee Smith). One night she decides to step out and attend a party in Garden Heights. Then when she is with her friends from home in Garden Heights, she is able to factor in the traits she avoids at school but still does not fully fit in there either. When she is at Williamson prep she cannot be too loud, use slang, or not look unapproachable in order to avoid the typical ghetto black girl stereotypes. Starr, similar to quite a few black people, feels that she needs two personalities. Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) is a 16-year-old black girl who lives in a black neighborhood, but attends a prep school where she is surrounded by well-off white kids. and screenplay writer Audrey Wells did a good job of following the book it was based on by Angie Thomas. It also included the experience of a black teenager being around predominantly whites and the experience of being in a neighborhood ran by drug lords.įor the most part, director George Tillman Jr. “The Hate U Give” realistically captured the tension and discrimination between law enforcement and the black community.