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Last week I had the pleasure of going to watch this movie called Queen and Slim. I am giving this movie a rating of 5 stars!! The movie was a romance love story mixed in with a message of a black revolution and black empowerment. The movie starts off with a black woman and black man on a date and as they were heading home from their date they were pulled over by the police. Now in our society black men and woman interactions with the police can sometimes turn violent in the event of the victims getting shot and killed or beaten to a pulse. This movie showed the exact opposite. As the white officer was heckling the soon to be couple with unnecessary gesture and orders the main character who we will refer to as “Queen” decided that she wanted to stand up for her rights and voice her opinion to the officer about them being mistreated. That didn’t go so well as the officer took offense and started to get more physical with the black male. As they wrestled around and scuffled some way some how the black man who we will refer to as “Slim” got access to the officers weapon and UNINTENTIONALLY shot the officer. In distress the two characters didn’t know what to do but they knew that in this society they couldn’t tell any judge that they accidentally shot and killed an officer so they chose to run and flee for their own protection. In their journey to run away from the police their story garners national attention but surprisingly they start to gain support from people in society. Black people come together to try and help Queen and Slim and protect them on their journey all the way until the end. The movie takes some crazy loops and turns but every time is does it just gets you to inch closer and closer to the screen. Very intense movie with a very real story line. I definitely would recommend this movie and I just might go see it again.