WHAT’S IT ABOUT
From visionary filmmaker, Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organization aims to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream. Produced by the team behind the Academy-Award® winning Get Out.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
This is classic Spike Lee. Everything in this movie is said and done for a reason. First, it’s a film based in the seventies and that alone would normally alienate your key demographic. Spike uses this to his advantage since this was a time when Afro-Americans (sadly, that’s what we called ourselves back then) had a lot more unity than they do today. Second, there are several underlying stories beneth the main story that gives this movie more revelance than what one might realize, and third, it’s another true story that “the powers that be” have kept out of the publics eyes and ears, for far too long. As for the film itself, telling the story of how a rookie African-American detective was able to fool a Colorado chapter of the KKK, and the head guy David Duke was priceless. I guess if African-Americans are the inferior race, getting fooled by the inferior race makes the White race far less than inferior – by Ku Klux Klan definition. So Ron Stallworth and his colleague, Flip Zimmerman both learned things about themselves and each other. Ron began to realize just how deeply America was separated, while Flip faced his Jewish background. This film is billed as a comedy/drama and that’s ok because it did have some comical areas but when it got dramatic, it was gritty – I’m talking to you Jerome Turner (Harry Belafonte) All through the movie we witness historical people and events. Being an African-American, nothing in this movie shocked or surprized me but the way it was told truly left an impression. Although this is a movie about how the KKK got tricked, it was very informative. You learn just how stupid and closed-minded those type of people are. I kept saying “Do they hear how dumb they sound”, “Does this really make sense to them”. I could live to be 100 and I will never understand racism.
Media
- Genre – Drama
- Street date
- Digital – October 23rd 2018
- DVD/Blu-Ray – November 6th 2018
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English Dolby Atmos, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- A Spike Lee Joint – Ron Stallworth, Jordan Peele, and the cast discuss working with the iconic director
- BlacKkKlansman Extended Trailer Featuring Prince’s “Mary Don’t You Weep”