By layering the two narratives on top of each other, Matsoukas makes it unusually difficult to figure out where the movie is heading. You root for the romantic comedy to win, but can’t tell if it will or won’t. Racism and injustice aren’t treated as a backdrop for action and violent genre pleasures. Instead, they’re an interruption, which threatens to derail the satisfying happily ever after the characters, and the audience, deserve.
One of the central moments of the film is the steamy first sex scene between Queen and Slim. Matsoukas, best known as a music video director, uses quick cuts to juxtapose the romantic consummation with scenes of a protest. Queen and Slim make love, while somewhere else, in the streets, black people chant „Let them go!“ and the police menacingly advance amid clouds of tear gas.
The juxtaposition is jarring in part because the two scenes fit together so well. Protest is a kind of love; love, in the face of dehumanization and oppression, is a kind of protest. „Queen and Slim,“ is a political film because Matsoukas knows that the language of romance can be one particularly vivid way to say that black lives matter.
Rather than relying on shootouts to build tension, „Queen & Slim“ follows the romantic comedy plot arc. The two are understandably angry and confused, and they initially bicker and argue. But, in predictable rom-com fashion, they eventually find they like each other a lot more than their first date suggested.
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