FILM

In Black Cases we meet Antoine Flowers, a 17-year-old African American teen. Setoff in the “Now I lay me” prayer said by many children, his journey bespeaks of the night his innocence was lost as he sort to defend his mother during a domestic dispute with her boyfriend. Even deeper, his narrative addresses the environmental and societal factors that precipitated this event in coming to be. Viewers are left to grapple with many questions, the main one being was it anger or trauma at play that night?