10 minutes in, its breathless

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2018)

Just finished watching this amazing film by the director who also legitimised torture in her previous film. Perhaps this is her attempt to redeem herself. Regardless, she has created a film that takes a large-scale drama (the Detroit riots) and manages to convincingly bring our focus into a chamber drama with an insanely bigoted white cop and a bunch of accidental hotel guests (with just two exceptions - you guessed it - black). As a film it takes your breath away with the suspense that just keeps building. As a portrait of 1967 USA, it also seems on the money ( though that is hard for me to judge other than from what I happen to know of history). WHat strikes me is that it seems amazingly little has changed in the US of A in the 50 years since. Watch this film! (As it's a safe bet Trumpski won't.)