“Silent Rose” (** out of four) was an earnest but monotonous melodrama filmed mostly in black-and-white set during the aftermath of the 2016 election as various students and teachers (Marquel Alexander, Diego Bateman, Shatira Herrera, and others) discuss their feelings on racial inequality and social injustice and how it affects their lives and many others at their high school and in contemporary America. Give director Mitch Dickman points for trying to make an intelligent rumination on politics and American society and its affect on youth but results are preachy, superficial, and forgettable. Even still, this won big at some independent film festivals earlier this year.