A Flawed Thriller About the Myth of the ‘Model Immigrant’
<em>Luce </em>follows a high-school student and refugee who writes an essay that terrifies his teacher.
by David Sims
Aug 05, 2019
3 minutes
begins with a provocation. The film’s plot is set into motion by an essay that Luce Edgar (played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.), a star student at a suburban high school, turns in to one of his teachers, Harriet Wilson (Octavia Spencer). Asked to write in the voice of a historical figure, Luce picked Frantz Fanon, the Martinican philosopher who said violence was sometimes morally necessary in the struggle against colonialism. Luce’s
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