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Written, directed and co-produced by Justin Simien, Dear White People is American Comedy-Drama Movie who released on October 17, 2014 (United States). This movie is about the lives of four black students at an Ivy League college. It stars Tyler James Williams as Lionel Higgins, Tessa Thompson as Samantha White, Teyonah Parris as Colandrea 'Coco' Conners, Brandon P. Bell as Troy Fairbanks (as Brandon Bell), Malcolm Barrettas Helmut West and Dennis Haysbert as Dean Fairbanks.

Plot

The cast in Dear White People movie

Samantha White is a major in heritage media arts at Winchester University, a renowned and overwhelmingly white university. With her sharply tongued and witty radio show Dear White People and her self-published novel, Ebony and Ivy, Sam stirs up both the administration and the student body, condemning white people and racial transgressions in Winchester.


The sudden election of activist Samantha White as head of a traditional black residence hall is setting up a university campus cultural war that threatens common conceptions of what it means to be black. Though Sam leverages her popularity as host of the controversial and polarizing radio show "Dear White People" to try to discourage Armstrong Parker House from diversifying the institution, outgoing head-of-house Troy Fairbanks, son of the university dean , defies the lofty aspirations of his father by applying to join Pastiche's team, the college's popular comedy magazine.The otherwise all-white college newspaper hires Lionel Higgins, an Afro-sporting sci-fi nerd, to go undercover to write about black culture, a subject he knows nothing about, while the violently assimilated Coco Conners attempts to use campus uproar to carve out a reality TV career.

But no one at Winchester University is ready for Pastiche's disgraceful, ill-conceived annual Halloween bash, with its "unleash your inner Negro" theme throwing gasoline on the already smoldering fire of frustration and confusion. When the party comes down to riotous anarchy, everybody needs to pick a side.[1]

Pros

From left, Nia Jervier, Teyonah Parris and Brandon P. Bell in Dear White People.

Mike Scott on NOLA.com give 4 stars out of 5, said that Dear White People is charming and smart movie, and the racial satire gives us all something to talk about. He also think that it "provocative" but in the good way. "The genius of it all, despite its hot-button themes and eyebrow-raising title, is that it does it all with a disarming and deeply rooted sense of humor and charm. The result is an astute and funny film built around an impressively layered script and an appealing ensemble cast that manages to broach the delicate issue of race in an honest, sensible way."[2]

It’s all up for grabs in a film that, for its willingness to confront head-on the toxic and the taboo, is bracingly free of cant. “Dear White People” isn’t a vehicle for grievance but cockeyed, even optimistic, portrait of people forced to navigate, resist and sometimes exploit an irrational system of unearned privilege. It’s true that satire is the perfect weapon of reason, and Justin Simien deploys it with resourcefulness, cool assurance and eagle-eyed aim[3].- Ann Hornaday on Washingtonpost.com, she also give 3 stars out of 5 A.O. Scott on Newyorktimes.com says "Everyone should see this movie, and everyone will see it a little differently." Because it's a smart campus comedy movie that juggles a handful of hot potatoes-race, sex, privilege, power-with slick agility and just an occasional stumble.[4]

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