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Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor leads a cohesive ensemble, consisting of Mary J. Blige, Michael Kelly, Mare Winningham, Camila Cabello and Jay Will, in a heartbreaking story based on a true story.
By Beanrea July
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In the coming-of-age drama “Rob Peace,” from actor-turned-writer-director Chiwetel Ejiofor, an up-and-coming science enthusiast from a struggling Newark community will have to navigate disparate realities: the world of Yale privilege and his own fight. to get his father out of jail. Jay Will ably plays the gregarious Rob whose protective mother (Mary J. Blige) implores him to throw off the burdens of his father (Ejiofor) and focus on his own future. Instead, Rob turns to quick money as a big-time marijuana runner to cover his legal costs, obsessed with his sublimated quest to save his father.
Cinematographer Ksenia Sereda adopts a combination of low-angle shots and several close-ups, and the images imbue Rob with strength and vulnerability in equal measure. While the persistent voiceover of Rob reading his private graduate essay as narration feels more than moving, in all, the film delivers a well-deserved emotional punch that, surprisingly, doesn’t come from perpetuating the physical and systemic violence to which aim. to shed light.
Deviating from the original curtains written by Rob’s roommate Jeff Hobbs, Ejiofor walks a fine line between a blind birthday party and a sobering fact about its protagonist, but lands more occasionally in the aspect of a birthday party. However, clarifying certain facets of a more confusing story lays bare the emotional fact of Rob’s life: his cases also occasionally put him in a most unlikely position. When Jeff’s film edit says he never would have believed Rob’s story if they hadn’t been roommates for 4 years, we are Jeff, through the ever-changing proximity of good looks and tragedy in Robert DeShaun Peace’s life.
Rob PeaceR is rated for language, drug use, violence and sexual content. Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes. In cinemas.
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