Flutterby™! : 2 movies

We are not normally movie goers, but saw two last month: A Star Is Born (which I thought was really powerful and would love to read some more critiques of, but I wanna read critiques by people who actually apparently saw the movie which discounts a lot of the ones I've read), and, last night (to escape the one or two tricker-treaters that might actually try our neighborhood), The Hate U Give.

Parts were super powerful. Parts were to an audience that wasn't me. There were a number of plot elements that felt like a YA novel (which, hey, it was drawn from, so that's fine) that left me questioning how those things might work in the more complex reality of the real universe.

I always want to walk out of a movie feeling like I've learned something about myself and my place in the culture around me, and with some deeper questions that I have trouble articulating, and this one succeeded.