Bandit queens.Robin's Hood * Starring Khatee V. Turner * Wolfe Robin's Hood spins the once-upon-a-time Robin Hood Robin Hood, legendary hero of 12th-century England who robbed the rich to help the poor. Chivalrous, manly, fair, and always ready for a joke, Robin Hood reflected many of the ideals of the English yeoman. legend into a lezzy-in-the-hood morality tale. Written, directed, produced, and edited by first-time filmmaker Sara Millman, the movie Lakes place in Oakland, Calif., where social worker Robin (Khatee V. Turner, who also cowrote the film) quits quits adj. On even terms with by payment or requital: I am finally quits with the loan. [Middle English, probably alteration (influenced by Medieval Latin her job after getting fed up with the bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu racism that foils her ability to help impoverished clients. That changes when she hooks up with a hot French thief named Brooklyn (Clody Cates n. pl. 1. Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. - Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. - R. Browning. ), who admires Robin's social responsibility and teaches her the ways of crime. Like any number of cinematic criminal lovers before them, the duo begins to steal from the rich and anonymously donate to the poor. This low-budget indie, shot on digital video, has a documentary feel, particularly in its portrayal of the ills that plague urban neighborhoods. Despite the crimes Robin and Brooklyn commit, this is a love story that has you rooting for them to live happily ever after The term happily ever after is used in association with many works of children’s fiction and romantic fiction. It describes a happy ending, often a cliché in which all the good characters have emerged victorious and all the evil characters have been punished. . |
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