Queen & Slim (2019)
Directed by Melina Matsoukas Queen & Slim is American Romantic-Crime-Drama movie who released on November 27, 2019 (United States). Set in today's United State this kind of another variation of "Bonnie & Clyde" tells about a black young couple who seeks refuge after the main character kills a cop in self-defense on their first date. This movie stars are Daniel Kaluuya as Slim, Jodie Turner-Smith as Queen, Bokeem Woodbine as Uncle Earl, Chloë Sevigny as Mrs. Shepherd, Flea as Mr. Shepherd, Sturgill Simpson as Police Officer Reed and Indya Moore as Goddess.
Plot
Queen and Slim meet in person at the Restaurant after the swiped right in the Tinder. Slim works at Costco and Queen is a lawyer coming off a very bad day in court.
At the restaurant, which is one of those old-time diners like the one in "Pulp Fiction," the pair make uncomfortable small talk. Slim likes the place because it's black-owned, but Queen thinks that he's just cheap. There doesn't seem to be any hope of these two ever having a second date, the way things are going. Things are going to take a change. A police truck pulls them over as Slim drives her home. The policeman is rude, suspicious and white.
He then proceeds to search the car for contraband that simply isn’t there. It’s late, and aside from the hostile negotiations between officer and presumed criminal, the road is silent. Recognizing the threat, Slim plays it calm, obeying the orders of the officer as politely as possible. Queen knows her rights, and she's not shy about claiming them, and when she hits her phone, the situation spirals out of control, quickly.The cop starts to wave his gun around, throwing a shot in his direction, and Slim hits him to the ground, grabs his pistol, and bangs! Now there's a less racist cop in the country.
As they abscond in panic, first with Slim’s car, then a Kentucky sheriff’s pickup truck, then a Blue Pontiac Catalina, and finally an old, baby-poop-brown Mercedes, Queen and Slim drive through an America that is poor and rural and black, Queen and Slim are about to become what the script calls "Bonnie and Clyde."
Controversy
Courtney Anderson on her site says "this movie doesn’t seem to have been made for Black people".[1] Given that Black people have spent the past few years intensely debatingpolice brutality and insisting that we avoid being shot and killed with impunity, a film that reflects on Black people seeking to flee state-sanctioned abuse by whatever means necessary—finding love and friendship and redemption along the way—could be highly enticing to Black viewers. Following her statement she also say "Or, maybe I should say that it’s not for certain types of Black people. For the past few days, I’ve been trying to figure out who Queen & Slim is actually for."[2]
Some some even responded to their disappointment after watching this movie "I left the theater after watching Queen & Slim feeling, yet again, that I was being reminded of my inevitable demise as a black person in America, or the demise of someone I love. I felt hopeless instead of inspired; deflated instead of uplifted; tired instead of woke" by Jordan Ligons on Theringer[3]. Because of Why must black stories rely on trauma and hopelessness?


