The Best Part of <em>Queen & Slim</em> Is the Soundtrack
The record, which features new songs from Blood Orange, Megan Thee Stallion, and Lauryn Hill, captures the journey of the film’s protagonists while avoiding some of the story’s clichés.
It happens in a matter of seconds: A white cop points his gun and fires. The bullet grazes a young black woman’s leg, and her partner turns to the officer in shock. Amid the confusion, the gun changes hands, and a familiar script is upended as the uniformed man falls to the pavement. So begins the dramatic arc of Queen & Slim, the first feature film from the director Melina Matsoukas.
The movie follows a black couple whose prosaic Tinder date turns deadly when they’re pulled over by a racist police officer. Under normal circumstances, the pair would never have seen each other again.
