All good points that you made Cosmic, I'll try to quickly respond.
You'd think that would be obvious, but there are plenty of people (like those at the Charlottesville rally) who share the KKK's beliefs. They're clearly not going to watch this film, but given the rise in white supremacy, particularly in the US over the last few years, the depressing reality is that you can't assume the audience is going to inherently see the KKK as the bad guys.
Even worse if people watch the film and like the views of the KKK! Oh god! They'd hopelessly be lost if they did. Still my point was that it's clear what the KKK was saying was wrong! While it's not clear what the black rally speaker was saying was wrong (about killing cops) as most of what he said was very right and positive. I'd like the film much better with that cop killing statement left out.
I also don't appreciate the anti-cop rhetoric, though I think that part of the speech was meant to be hyperbole.
I can see that, in fact I also felt that the young woman president of the college black chapter often was written to delivery hyperbole so that then she could be balanced by the calmer undercover cop...And I like that part of it as it was balanced and didn't seem like the director injecting his own views into a historical story.
However, it does remind me of something I was going to bring up but forgot: the black community is not depicted as being free from problematic points of view themselves. Obviously that's not delved into, but it was interesting to see some acknowledgement nonetheless.
I noticed that too and appreciated the honesty of it. Even more so in Do the Right Thing.
The end footage could've done without that for sure. Just showing the Unite the Right rally on its own would've been enough. The former president's comments and the real David Duke was excessively driving the point home, but I was fine with their inclusion as well.
Agreed, I almost mentioned the Trump/Duke footage in my review and I get what Spike was doing there...while I can't stand either man! I wish Spike left the politics out and cut that scene.
That was all I had remembered about the footage when I was thinking of nominating the film. When I rewatched it the following day, I thought showing the car was wholly unnecessary and put me off a little bit. It didn't ruin the film or anything, but I did think it was a bit much.
On a personal note I've made a conscious decision not to watch news footage of that type. I can't watch people being killed for real, I feel mentally abused by the last few seconds. (Though I'm still happy to have watch the film
and like I said I enjoyed 95% of it)
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... Yes we also get extreme hate speech by the KKK members who plan on killing black people, but we the audience know the KKK are the evil ones and are ape s*** bunkers to boot...They are clearly the antagonist.
