It's not about the true story of a black police detective who devised a plan to infiltrate the KKK in the 70s. It's about how Spike Lee, after 30 years of movie-making, has perfected his own personal style and angry message - at one time considered propaganda or manipulative, but now ... undeniable. Certain lines of dialogue are right out of Trump's manifesto, which hurts the movie's true-story credibility. But that's not the point. You see perfectly-positioned current-day footage at the end, about how the once-ridiculed horror has taken form today, and you leave the theater in silence.
Trivia: Keeping it in the family! Main hero John David Washington is Denzel's son, and Michael Buscemi is Steve's brother. Seriously, not knowing this, I thought John David acted like Denzel because they'd both been under Spike Lee's tutelage, and kept waiting during the end credits for Steve's name to show up.
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