Ava DuVernay Praises ‘Straight Outta Compton’: To be a woman who loves hip hop at times is to be in love with your abuser.

Ava DuVernay

Ava DuVernay, like many others, was highly entertained and thoroughly satisfied with the F. Gary Gray directed biopic, Straight Outta Compton.

The director, screenwriter, film marketer and film distributor (who for her work in Selma is the first black female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the first black female director to have a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture) took to Twitter giving her own personal Twitter review of the film. See her thoughts below.

I saw @ComptonMovie last night w/ friends at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South Central with a beautiful, alive, invested audience.

— Ava DuVernay (@AVAETC) August 16, 2015

Invested because many of them, like me, were there. Teens at the very time and in the very place depicted on screen. It had better be right. — Ava DuVernay (@AVAETC) August 16, 2015

And damn, they got it right. Under @FGaryGray‘s brilliant direction + @MattyLibatique‘s gorgeous cinematography, I was transported back.

— Ava DuVernay (@AVAETC) August 16, 2015

I saw the militarized Batterrams again. Rolling up our streets like invaders in a war. My friend asked, “Is that real?” Yep. That happened. — Ava DuVernay (@AVAETC) August 16, 2015

I saw the cavalier way that women were treated in hip hop spaces early on. Window dressing at most. Disposable at worst. Yep, that happened.

— Ava DuVernay (@AVAETC) August 16, 2015

I was in the street during the Rodney King Uprising. After that unjust verdict. Feeling anger. And community. And fire. And love. Happened. — Ava DuVernay (@AVAETC) August 16, 2015

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