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Genre Research: The Hate U Give


Most people enjoy a good movie while others enjoy a good book. Some people enjoy fun animated movies while others enjoy ones that address issues and problems that go on in this world. These issues range from racism to climate change and pollution. The typical category that films like those fall under is drama. Ask yourself, what is the purpose of a Drama film? Maybe its just to entertain others or maybe its to bring awareness to other political and social problems. Most of the time the issues brought up are the ones people don't know about or disregard. After doing some research my teammates and I were able to find that the main purpose of most drama films is to express the need for social change, communicating a universal theme, recreating and interpreting information, ideas, and emotions. While still being entertaining and divert our attention from our everyday lives. A film that we felt best suited at least three of these categories is called The Hate U Give. This movie is about a main character named Starr who witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. After this tragedy she is facing pressure from all sides of the community leaving Starr to understand that she must find her voice and stand up for what's right. This movie started out as a novel by Angie Thomas that talked about a teenage girl who grapples with racism, police brutality, and activism. These are all examples of  what other people fight for under the categories of social change, interpreting information, and communicating universal themes their whole lives. The elements that we chose were plot, sound, and diction. This movie exhibited all three of these elements in the most perfect way possible. The storyline and plot was simple and to the point. While this is still true the sound used added the excitement and exhilaration you would want in such a powerful film. This leaves the audience craving more. It already has their attention as it continues to drawl them in deeper into the perspective of the main character. The diction provides an understanding in the film as to why she was perceived as a "white girl" due to her exceptional word choice and diction compared to the other teenagers in the film. It also allows her to get her point across in the film while speaker to another character who is considered her uncle as she ask him certain things that bring out where the true bias in society is. It allows the message to be brought out with a better understand of the wrong ways of what people use to distinguish the good people from the bad ones for all the wrong reasons. While still adding in the importance of the message they are able to use a certain choice of words that get the point of the entire film across. Sounds of all kinds are used to help exaggerate and help point out when a key point is made in the film. Although, it is a simple and straight forward message it still has a complex foundation to build off of in this film which is what makes it such a wonderful interpretation of the original best seller book. Elements of the genre in the movie that we did like include the exchange in dialogue, the projected soundtrack, and the climax of the movie. The dialogue used helps get the messages across while, the soundtrack provided the right mood setting for each filmed scene throughout the movie from beginning to end. I don't believe there were any elements that did not appeal to us in this movie however, knowing what was challenges were going on in the movie the way it ends leaves the audience wanting more with the cliffhangers for those who are more interested in the issues they face seeing as the problems were not solved and still continued on. This is where we believe a drama sequel should be provided but in many cases the director of the film may not make another in the future.

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