BlacKkKlansman is a film of pleasures and power. One thing I was not expecting is the exhilarating way Lee explicitly engages with the power of cinematic imagery, from Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind to blaxploitation and beyond.
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So often these past few years, people fall back on arguments of “It’s just a movie/video game/TV show/whatever,” as if the impact that media images and values have on our culture isn’t immense and demonstrable. Lee pulls no punches there.
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Anyway I’m gonna be reeling from that movie for a bit. Wow. With Do the Right Thing in the 80s, Malcolm X in the 90s, 25th Hour after 9/11 and now BlacKkKlansman, Lee remains, in my estimation, the great American filmmaker of the past 4 decades.
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Ha, yeah. Great filmmakers take risks. They don’t always pay off, but I’m glad he doesn’t play it safe.
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