missed target?

Rating: 7/10 (6 January 2019)

Movie night with Iris.
This is the funny, sometimes chilling true story of Ron Stallworth's infiltration of the KKK.
It sometimes doesn't work as Spike Lee mixes a sometimes amusing tale with more preachy, self-reflexive moments. The veiled references to Donald Trump are pretty clunky to. However the incompetence of the Klan members is there for all to see. The sub-plot of the racist cop seemed a more interesting, and threatening story-line to me.
Its most despairing moments come with its final reel - newsreel footage of white supremacists in Charlottesville last summer and Trump trying to excuse their murderous excesses.