Do we ever learn from the hateful events in History?

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2018)

Watched an interesting interview with Spike Lee the director of this movie and it increased my interest to see BlacKKKlansman 100%
Spike Lee's hope is that young Americans will vote on mass in the mid term elections to send a massage to "Agent Orange" his reference to Donald Trump and the Republicans when they see this movie.
This disturbing and at times frightening movie is an adaptation of true events in Colorado in the late 1970's when Ron Stallworth an African American infiltrated the ranks of the Klu Klux Klan.
It's hard to watch at times not because of the violence or events but because of the realisation that these racist humans and the hateful offensive language they spew out are alive and well and living in America and worse, in pockets of Australia today.
This was emphasised by actual footage used in the movie of The White Nationalists riots in Charlottesville 2017 , when 3 people were killed and Trump defended them by saying " Some Very Fine People on Both Sides.
This movie is important, well acted and directed and does what good movies are supposed to do entertain but also educate and inform.
John David Washington, son of Denzel is impressive as Ron Stallworth as is Adam Driver as Flip Zimmerman the white decoy cop who is the means for Stallworth to trick the Klan Master.
I especially liked Ashlie Atkinson in the difficult role of the ignorant stupid wife married to a hateful monster
and following his every edict to inflict terror on the innocent in the name of so called "Christian Ayrian Supremacy."
Harry Belafonte the famous Calypso singer , actor and Civil Rights champion now 91 gives an incredibly moving performance as Jerome Turner retelling the atrocious murder by whites of a young black man in the early 20th Century to an assembly of black students.
It wasn't just the hate and racial slurs of coloured people that disturbed me ,all minority groups including Jews , faggots and anyone that differed in appearance, religious belief or ideology was included in this story that is as relevant today, especially today as it was in the 1970's

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BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Directed by Spike Lee. With John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace. Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white surrogate, who eventually becomes head of the local branch...
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