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It revived the Klan and insult to injury is still reckoned a landmark of narrative filmmaking.
If there were no other reason to makeBlacKkKlansman,this one would be good enough.
A black and a Jew putting one over on the dimwitted racists!
Lee wants audiences to laugh their black/Jewish/liberal asses off.
As for those without black/Jewish/liberal asses, well, its hard to say what theyll do.
The most significant is that its now a quasi-redemption story.
Kwame Ture (Corey Hawkins), whos considered by law enforcement a dangerous agitator.
Stallworth isnt immune to them.
Demagogues are salesmen and salesmanship excites him.
In life, there was no woman activist to turn Stallworth on and tell him off.
Lee doesnt do subtlety.
But the movie is very entertaining and comes with a stupendous, lushly melodic score by Terence Blanchard.
Stallworths attempts to engage Patrice (How you doin this evening, my sister?
Lee doesnt twist peoples words.
These are their words.
BlacKkKlansmanwould have been richer if Lee had dramatized the real Stallworths reservations about black militancy.
But both sides,paceTrump, are not equal.
The coda brings this goofy, upbeat story into the frightening, downbeat present.
