Aug 13, 2018 it shows how a cop could do good from inside a racist system but it still shows the awful sides of that racist system from other cops inside that system.
Aug 14, 2018 Why does it matter if it was pro-cop, if its a good film then its a good film. It could be pro-child slavery but if its a dope movie... Then its a dope movie.
Aug 14, 2018 Because cops are bad. If you don't think so you're 1) insulated from it and/or 2) don't read enough. EDIT: Or you're just a racist/sadist/edgy teenager and enjoy seeing the state commit violence on its citizens, particularly ones of color. I guess if you don't critically evaluate the substance of anything and are solely interested in style or form, then sure. I highly doubt that this sketch comedy movie is so visually or technically savvy or creatively constructed or masterfully acted that I can overlook its actual meaning. Not all movies I like pass the smell test ideologically, but I'm generally less forgiving to contemporary cinema which is essentially living propaganda actively shaping public opinion which impacts ongoing political struggles. A movie reinforcing the idea that cops are anything but instrumental, guilty drivers of racial conflict in this country is doing the bidding of reactionaries. For a movie to overcome that and sit well with me isn't likely. Of course, I haven't seen the movie yet so maybe I'll walk away with a different interpretation than others.
Aug 14, 2018 and let it be known that on this day Charlie lost the opinion alice in chains is good, but gained sex.
Aug 14, 2018 I'd say "pro-cop" is an exaggeration, though it's perhaps uneasily ambivalent. It at least acknowledges the inherent conflict for the protagonist as a black man in the police force, a tool of oppression, though this doesn't really result in any significant consequences for the story. I'm probably willing to give Spike the benefit of the doubt overall, given his whole career (He also explicitly calls out the blue wall of silence, as he's done many times before). With that said, I found Black Klansman disappointingly conventional, especially compared to the messier but more inventive and daring Chi-raq. Sorry to Bother You, on the other hand, does have that anything-goes energy which makes for a much more compelling movie.
Aug 16, 2018 So much for nuanced views on things. Typical boring and partially delusional interpretation from a partisan. What about the large amount of black cops in the force, are they just pawns for the white man? What is your solution, no cops? No guns for cops? If all cops are inherently bad in your mind then surely you have a solution.
Aug 17, 2018 Lol You dont even have any sort of response. Your views on police seem paper thin and completely unoriginal, i dont even f---ing like police but to say theyre all bad is well, r-----ed.
Aug 17, 2018 I'm criticizing the police as an institution, not on a person-by-person basis. I'm sorry I'm not an original enough thinker to, uh, uncritically worship actors of state violence responsible for the largest largest prison population in human history. Not to mention their disproportionate, negative impact on black peoples from Jim Crow to the war on drugs. So, yeah, specifically in the context of a movie about police solving racism in this country, I'm inherently skeptical. https://www.amazon.com/Policing-Black-Man-Prosecution-Imprisonment/dp/110187127X/ https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Michelle-Alexander-ebook/dp/B0067NCQVU https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610394577/ https://www.amazon.com/Cop-Hood-Policing-Baltimores-District/dp/0691143862 https://www.amazon.com/War-Poverty-Crime-Incarceration-America/dp/0674737237
Aug 18, 2018 I'll read that after I see the movie. I know Boots had a problem with the movie being centered around cops fighting against racism.