Synopsis
Infiltrate hate.
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
John David Washington Alec Baldwin Isiah Whitlock Jr. Robert John Burke Brian Tarantina Arthur J. Nascarella Ken Garito Frederick Weller Adam Driver Michael Buscemi Laura Harrier Damaris Lewis Ato Blankson-Wood Corey Hawkins Dared Wright Faron Salisbury Ryan Eggold Jasper Pääkkönen Paul Walter Hauser Ashlie Atkinson Topher Grace Victor Colicchio Paul Diomede Elise Hudson Danny Hoch Nicholas Turturro Ryan Preimesberger Harry Belafonte Gina Belafonte Show All…
Sean McKittrick Spike Lee Jason Blum Jordan Peele Matthew A. Cherry Jeanette Volturno Edward H. Hamm Jr. Raymond Mansfield Shaun Redick Marcei A. Brown Win Rosenfeld
Black Klansman, Csuklyások - BlacKkKlansman, Infiltrado del KKKlan, BlacKkKlansman: J'ai infiltré le Ku Klux Klan, 黑白三K黨, بلکککلنزمن, بلاكككلنزمن
topher grace list of notable roles:
• eric foreskin
• venom from sam raimi’s emo spiderman
• grand wizard of the kkk david duke
this versatility......i will not rest until he wins a golden globe at the very least
This is maybe one of the most frustrating moviegoing experiences I've ever had.
It's not without its good moments. The scenes with the black student union are so powerful. I hope this film is successful enough that it ignites a fire inside the people that need it. But...
Okay.
The first act of this film sets up SO many threads with so many little sentences that feel like they're going to pay off in smart, progressive, eye-opening ways, and every single one of them is abandoned by the end without ever being commented on again. Adam Driver has absolutely no development or arc outside of being a fixture for the operation. Characters float in and out of the story without…
Really love this film. Best Spike Lee since 25th Hour.
DP Chayse Irvin kicks ass with gorgeous 35mm lensing. Beautiful framing and coverage.
Barry Alexander Brown, who has been editing most of Lee's films since School Daze, delivers once again. The pacing and bold cutting decisions are part of Lee's signature... building to an incredibly moving epilogue that had the audience sitting in deafening silence.
See it on the big screen.
“I got it, did you get it?”
“I got it!”
“Jimmy did you get it?”
“I got it!”
“Flip did you get it?”
“I got it!”
“Sarge did you get it?”
“YOU’RE UNDER ARREST.”
“people will never elect a man like david duke as president.” honey, you’ve got a big storm comin’
It’s surprisingly easy to forget that “BlacKkKlansman” is a Spike Lee joint. Not only does it open with an extended sequence from “Gone with the Wind” (not a Spike Lee joint), but it also spends a good amount of time parsing the fundamental dilemma of Jewish-American identity, and takes place in the snow-white hills of Colorado Springs… which is pretty much the furthest place from Crooklyn you can get in this country.
Sure, the usual Lee flourishes pop up here and there — from the introductory text promising this buddy cop biopic is “some fo’ real shit,” to the gorgeous conveyer-belt shot at the climax, and the sobering mic drop of news footage that brings things to a close —…
I thought it was very good, tragic, weird and funny. Won’t lodge any criticisms, because last night when I did that, standing in the lobby saying dumb shit like I “didn’t like how the score was mixed”, Spike Lee walked by.
There have been several great films this summer that have addressed race issues in America and police brutality and they’ve all done so in incredibly unique and memorable ways. This one seemed to hit the most. Not a film that necessarily feels like it should be critiqued, just one that needs to be seen. Does it have it’s flaws? Of course, but they feel so small and unnecessary to address when putting this film in the context of the world we’re living in and have been living in for so long. Left the theatre pissed off.
Usually, ending your movie with a news footage montage comes off as too preachy to me.....but the connection Spike makes between one of the characters and these certain clips is DUMBFOUNDING. Incredible and terrible at the same time.
I then researched the actual story of Ron and not only was this dude the real deal but that “pic scene” really did happen. Wild.
COMBO PRICE
patrice: i just got brutalised and sexually abused by a white police officer
ron: damn that shit sucks😢 wanna dance?
The film was watchable and had some good/interesting moments. However, it felt like the point was to convey a political message, and while at times political messages came through with a pretty heavy hand, they aren't totally consistent.
(spoilers ahead for why)
Throughout the film, there's a clear conflict between Patrice's point of view and Ron's. However, the ending doesn't really seem to resolve it. I'll sum up.
Plot points that support Patrice ("you can't change things from the inside"):
- The bomb plot *isn't* stopped. This is because of the systemic racism of the police force.
- The investigation into the KKK is closed because of vague "budget cuts" (clearly implying the police chief is covering the KKK's ass,…
"power to the people"
spike lee's message was loud and clear these ethnic wars has casualties not on both sides that are fighting but it affects people that had no business in it in the first place , lots of men women and children lost their loved ones over some bullshit ideas that people with different race cannot co-exist , but how so thats what spike enrolled in this centric kinda comedic piece ,that coexistence is like a symbiotic system one live for others and others live for one.
história muuuito boa mas um pouco mal contada. algumas partes ficaram muito sem nexo, por exemplo !!~SPOILER~!! a hora em que o policial de bigode foi preso, ficou muito mal colocada! qual era o contexto de tudo aquilo??? como resolveram e montaram todo o esquema para prender ele? fora os vacilos que os policiais dão durante a investigação, que meu Deus... achei também que faltou problematizar mais a KKK, ver um monte de caipira racista e burrão na minha opinião não é o bastante pra mostrar o quão perigoso tudo aquilo foi/é.
curti muito os personagens, também achei incrível o visual do filme e o final conectando tudo com os dias de hoje é assustador mas extremamente importante!
When I first watched the trailers for this movie, I figured it was a comedy. I was completey wrong. This movie definitely has a political conversation attached to it, which isn't a bad thing, just not what I expected this movie to be. That being said I did enjoy the movie and its message. I found the acting to border on 70s exploration movies / crime drama, and its balanced well. Overall a solid film.
My first Spike Lee film I’ve seen, and it was uncomfortable being the only white woman in the theater. But wow, the acting! Spectacular.
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