drugxglory
Street Struck
man real shyt thats how i felt leaving
"Detroit", 2017 Kathryn Bigelow film on the Detroit Riots
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For real, I need a while before I read or see anything about that again
Still has me angry a week later
I wanted them to give more than a cursory nod to that white power structure.
loyola llothta
☭☭☭
CarbonBraddock
You will be trolled
was going to go see this in about ten minutes but now having second thoughts. don't need to see black people getting brutalized anymore.
I had read the book years ago, so I already knew "how the story ended"
I didn't really want to go, the Mr did. And I really want to support movies with black leads and black stories...
So we went yesterday.
Watching it play out on screen was even worse
I left the theater sick to my stomach
Acid reflux still acting up 24 hrs later
DaRealness
I think very deeply
Just saw it tonight.
It was well made and captured the 60s quite good, but iono man the movie had me feeling some kind of way.
It was well made and captured the 60s quite good, but iono man the movie had me feeling some kind of way.
DaRealness
I think very deeply
Guvnor
Da Speculative Spectacle®
Amazing movie though I hated the uncle tom cop and wanted him to get shot.
I also thought it was hard to see dude just give up on his dreams like that. Sucks this was based on a real story, damn life can be a cold son of a bytch.
What a story, im depressed
I also thought it was hard to see dude just give up on his dreams like that. Sucks this was based on a real story, damn life can be a cold son of a bytch.
What a story, im depressed
Roman Brady
Nobody Lives Forever
Just seen this, haven't stopped clenching my jaw or eye balling cacs since
It was shot well, intense in moments and really captured the 60s civil rights era. However my fears that this is a story being told through the lens of a white were proven right. It was painfully obvious they were given an edict to not paint the police Or national guard as pigs. Making out one of the murders was due to miscommunication not malice? The one cop that found the front man uttering lines like "how could any human being do this" "I got you brother" talk about laying it thick..
All in all while it was compelling I hate that this is the movie bigelow choose to toe the line on narrative wise, what a cop out.
Ps I don't really understand why boyega's character was on trial. He wasn't a cop and he didn't assault or shoot anyone he was just there
It was shot well, intense in moments and really captured the 60s civil rights era. However my fears that this is a story being told through the lens of a white were proven right. It was painfully obvious they were given an edict to not paint the police Or national guard as pigs. Making out one of the murders was due to miscommunication not malice? The one cop that found the front man uttering lines like "how could any human being do this" "I got you brother" talk about laying it thick..
All in all while it was compelling I hate that this is the movie bigelow choose to toe the line on narrative wise, what a cop out.
Ps I don't really understand why boyega's character was on trial. He wasn't a cop and he didn't assault or shoot anyone he was just there
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Dillah810
Flat Girther
From the movie's standpoint, one the people at the hotel ID'd him being at the scene when the crimes happened.
In real life, it's unclear how deep Melvin Dismukes's (the guy Boyega was playing) involvement was in that incident. Some of the victims said that Dismukes partook in some of the beatings himself. That's why he got a shytload of death threats from the Black Panthers.
Roman Brady
Nobody Lives Forever
I had a feeling he must have did more shyt than just being the mediator that the movie was trying to portray. They could have at least had a scene where he was coerced into beating someone as some form of initiation the way he just rolled with them and they didn't bat an eye lid till the very end where the 2 cops block his passage was odd
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
This movie had its problems but in the end it did what it needed to do for most of the audience, and that's show police brutality at work as well as the environment where many know it's happening but wash their hands of it. Some of the stuff really didn't work for me like the incredibly hamfisted and artificial dialogue, and in fact most of the movie's scenes felt so "constructed" to create a reaction that I had more trouble to buy it than I felt I should have.