The idiocy of Queen


I took a dislike to Queen from the beginning of this film. She came across as snooty and condescending to Slim. What really got my goat was her instant decision to go on the run after the fatal incident. She is supposed to be an educated, professional woman who knows the criminal justice system. Up to that point, case could be made that both of them feared for their lives when faced with an angry white cop with a bad/racist attitude and a loaded weapon. Once Slim decides that they should run, they become fugitives and targets. Later in the film, she tells Slim that she is an" excellent lawyer." Really?

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Can't say I disagree. I can kinda see why she got out of the car but the decision to run was just stupid. She didn't even kill anyone. Just gave up her whole career like that?

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By freaking far the dumbest part of this festering pile of crap movie. She didn't shoot anyone. Why is she on the lam with someone she just met? I could understand if it were her serious lover and she wanted to stay by his side, but they didn't even have that element, not to mention that she believes (as I'm sure the writer does) that even standing next to the shooter involved will make her case impossible to defend and life in prison inevitable! So Cuba it is. The writer is either dumber than a sack of stones or just completely loony if they think this approaches the realm of plausibility.

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That was the whole point. She was making a point at how unfair the justice system is. Even as a lawyer, she knew that two black civilians that kill a white cop, do not have a chance in hell of beating that.

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Well, her choice ultimately got them both killed by the cops, so, as inequitous as the US justice system is, especially with respect to the killing of a white cop, who's to say that they wouldn't have stood a better chance if they'd turned themselves in? After all, she managed to get her uncle off a murder rap (albeit, one in which he was accused of killing a Black woman).

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I agree 100%. She was a horrible date. She was rude and had a big mouth. She basically caused the entire thing with the cop. I took a dislike to her as well. He was definitely the best part of the movie.

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Although I started to warm to her in the second half of the film (around the point she cut her hair), I initially couldn't stand her, pretty much from the off. She was rude, arrogant, condescending and supercillious, and expected men to put up with her shit and adore her for it. That's clear from the very first scene where she's wailing on a minimum-wage earning waitress for being 'bad at her job.' I wanted Slim to leave her ass on the kerb, after he shot the cop, and make his own choices, whatever they may have been (and it's likely he might have stood a chance, however slim [no pun intended], instead of being gunned by the cops at the end, had he not chosen Ms 'Excellent' lawyer's 'professional' advice to go on the run). I also didn't like the snooty way she kept berating him, including the way he ate, and only started bigging him up when she *wanted* something from him.

By contrast, I generally liked Slim. He was the likeable voice-of-reason, for the most part, despite everything that happened, and the wonderful Daniel Kaluuya is swiftly becoming typecast as the 'only sane man' in a batch of movies and shows now (which, I stress, ISN'T a complaint, since I adore the guy), to the extent that I'm now starting to think whether his 'treacherous' character in Black Panther may have in fact been right.

But, yeah, Queen, with her uppity, arrogant, overly-defensive attitude really bugged me. However, I get the feeling that, this was the point, since Slim called her up on it on a few occasions, so, it wasn't given a complete pass, and at least it was realistic, because the sad truth is, some people really are that entitled, supercillious and condescending (especially people with a chip-on-their-shoulder, whose academic intelligence/abilities far outstrip their wisdom and common-sense).

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