Rated 4 out of 5 by AlloCiné viewers, Spike Lee’s thriller BlackKklansman is currently available on Netflix and revisits the true story of an African-American who infiltrates the notorious Ku Klux Klan!
Crazy true story
Adam Driver and John David Washington
The film is set in the early 1970s, with Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) becoming the first black American officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Stallworth has white men under his command who don’t necessarily see this new officer in the best light and decides to prove his worth by infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan!
To do this, he enlists a colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), to be his face with the clan, conducting discussions over the phone. And soon the two men learn that a deadly operation is being prepared…
Horrible humor about a divided America
Topher Grace
BlackKklansman is a thriller tinged with dark humor that makes us wonder and the risks of the infiltrators keep us in a state of suspense throughout the film. John David Washington, son of Denzel Washington, and Adam Driver are excellent in their roles, as is Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3, That 70s Show) as the national director of the Klan, with a terrifying squad.
Spike Lee is never better than when he’s fiercely political. With BlackKklansman, he hits hard, daring to juxtapose montages of civil rights rallies and Klan meetings to highlight America’s divisions then and now.
The director also shows at the end of the film the American far-right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, which took place a few months before the film’s release, reminding us how the struggle for civil rights is more relevant than ever and that the struggle of African Americans continues.
Source: Allocine
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