Blackkklansman

No, I didn’t spell that wrong.  It is a Spike Lee film about a black cop and a white cop in Colorado Springs in the 70s who combine to infiltrate the KKK.  It is now playing at the Mahoning Cinema

David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, is featured in the film, and he is a complete idiot.  He’s still alive, still preaching his racist hatred, and still a complete idiot.

The film is based on real life actions, but it also has film clips from “Birth of a Nation” and it opens with a scene from “Gone With the Wind.”  The footage on the white supremacy march in Charlottesville is chilling, as is the scene with Trump saying there were good people on both sides.

It’s a good, sometimes tense and exciting film.  Two thumbs up.