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BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Biography | 135 minutes
3,41 1.259 votes

Genre: Biography / Crime

Duration: 135 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Spike Lee

Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver and Laura Harrier

IMDb score: 7,5 (310.391)

Releasedate: 9 August 2018

BlacKkKlansman plot

"Infiltrate hate."

'BlacKkKlansman' follows the true story of African-American agent Ron Stallworth who successfully infiltrates Colorado's Ku Klux Klan branch. He gets help from his partner Flip Zimmerman and rises to the head of the division. Together they try to prevent the KKK from taking control of the city.

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hvdriel

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Spike Lee is angry and we will know it. Does that work, ram a message into it? At least not for me. I get irritated.

If you read the three pages of reviews above, you will notice that almost everyone agrees that the film is exaggerating, caricatured and propagandistic (for a good cause, by the way). Made of thick wood, so to speak. That the scenario has quite a few weak spots (many coincidences) with little depth, let alone any character development. And that the references to this time are very bold.

However, the valuation for this differs. Whoever gives priority to the message (even if it is in a not so strong film), scores him highly. Those who have seen a weak film (with an important message, admittedly) are more negative.

There's nothing wrong with an important message, but wrap it up in a good film if you're a director, I'd say. I can imagine a subtle comedy or musical that makes you feel ashamed because you look in a mirror that occasionally catches you with racist prejudices too. That hits hard. Shooting a cannon at a sneaky racist cop and weakly gifted white men... it'll be fine.

And oh yeah, I don't believe Spike Lee is aligning the KKK with the Black Panther movement by mounting two gatherings of both in parallel. Look again: all the sympathy is with the blacks. As it should be in a propaganda film.

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barcam

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Not sure what the point or target audience of this movie is.

Spike Lee does not subtly hide a political message in what appears to be a silly comedy.

The majority of the whites in the film are stupid and racist and the African Americans are super cool and several references to blaxploitation movies that the lead actor with his haircut and clothing style would fit in perfectly.

At the end of the film, the director once again pushes through his propaganda as a totally oversimplified anti-fascist pamphlet.

Don't think that such a film can bridge the gap between peoples and cultures at all and reinforce rather than reduce racism.

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N00dles

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BlackKklansman is an entertaining movie, but Spike Lee wouldn't be Spike Lee if it weren't infused with an activist message about racial hatred and institutional racism and police brutality.

That means I can't enjoy his movies 100%. It's fine cinematographically and visually (he's a gifted filmmaker in that respect), but every time Lee wants to confront us with the facts, how the relationships are between white and black, how big the racism problem is, how much the black race has suffered from slavery, racism and oppression.

His nagging sermon is so unsubtle that it makes me faint that I think: just make a film that isn't about racial hatred for once. Of course a film can make the viewer think, film art is inextricably linked with a message, a confrontation, but it seems as if his whole life revolves around it. Quite apart from his glorification of the Black Power/Black Lives Matter movement.

So yes, you have to love it. As a film I found it entertaining, but towards the end it becomes a bit too much of a story of the good guys vs. the bad guys with a feel-good happy ending. The bad guys were mainly portrayed in a stereotypical way (the raised or retarded rednecks, the racist cop), the good guys as heroes who save the day. That gave the film a bit too much of a light-hearted comedy vibe, while the underlying message can be called fairly serious. A special film, with a good first half and a weaker second half.

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