BlacKkKlansman

Spike Lee's latest film BlacKkKlansman (2018) has been gaining a large amount notoriety starting with winning two awards at the Cannes Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize). This film is based on a true story about Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), who posed as a white supremacist over the phone using a white colleague as a proxy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan while working for the Colorado Springs police department in the 70s. That may be all that is true from the original story-Lee has added elements of 70s blaxsploitation films to the proceedings-which is certainly entertaining, but not true to life. Furthermore, he beats the audience over the head with is message. There are several sly asides to the current situation in America and politics in particular. In case that was lost on the viewer Lee ends the film with some explicit newsreel coverage of racist going on since the beginning of the Trump administration. The French love that kind of stuff-see Michael Moore's award for Fahrenheit 9/11. This is the best Lee film I've seen in some time, but it is artistically much inferior to his masterpiece, Do the Right Thing.