Tuesday, January 22, 2019

BlacKKKlansman (2018) Directed by Spike Lee

Ron Stallworth is a ambitious young rookie who has just become Colorados first black cop in the 1970´s.
He has big afro hair and with an even bigger self confidence, he is ready to make a difference in a world full of preconceptions and where hatred is a part of everyday.

Ron gets tired quickly of the uninteresting days in the police archives and demands to get a undercover assignment, so he gets to infiltrate a society meeting who has conections to the Black Panthers which are one of the biggest intern threats against USA.

But the most interesting thing happens when he sees a advertising about the local KKK (Ku Klux Klan) in a newspaper. He calls them with impulse, pretending to talk like a white man and thereby ask about a membership.

He can't meet them so his police colleague Filip gets to play him on the meetings so they can find out what really happens inside the clan and to possibly destroy them.

Ron is a cool character who is funny, cares about the world and you very quickly start to like him. He has one side of the foot at the black revolutioners and the other at the white-power world and must get his colleagues to realize which part is the good side. He gets very close friends with two of his colleagues by the name of Filip and Jimmy.

The main role plays by the relatively unknown John David Washington and he is superb here, Adam Driver plays the police colleague Filip and he is also very good and then we have Jasper Pääkkonen as a uncomfortable member of the clan.

Spike has chosen a more humoristic tone, frequently runs with dumb rednecks but balances even a drama tone and its a suprisingly fantastic good balancing he has succeeded with here.
There are several messages that lee wants to show, like there ares till a lot who is racists and jewhaters, with that show how little has changed. Another messages is that both black, white kan be friends and get a long.

I think this movie is fantastically made from the performances to the directing and is both suspenseful as it is funny.
A movie that is very important and as relevant as it was in the 70's. 
There are many important scenes but the most important ones is when Ron calls the clan or when one from the clan confronts Filip. 
Most of the characters needs here but a loveinterest to Ron isn't needed but i get why it's there, the opening scene is important but they could have showed It in another way i think but other than that not much negativity which always is positive.

Rating 9/10