Stay updated with breaking news from Roger ndrin. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
BlacKkKlansman, Channel 4, 9pm Spike Lee’s 2018 film is based on a 2014 memoir by retired Colorado Springs police officer Ron Stallworth, the first African-American on the city’s force, in which he tells how he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s. Hence the spellcheck-taxing title. Unsurprisingly given the premise, Lee’s adaptation is a black comedy. Stallworth is played by future Tenet star John David Washington. We first meet him in the early 1970s as he’s reassigned from menial duties in the records department to a job keeping tabs on civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael while he’s in town. This brings him into contact with Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier), a young black activist, and the two are soon an item though understandably Stallworth keeps the fact that he’s a policeman under wraps. ....
Everyone in this film is in dire need of love â and it makes them do crazy things Save Normal text size (M) 116 minutes Thereâs an old law of screenwriting that says you can only have one coincidence per movie, otherwise the audience wonât trust you. What that means, in effect, is that a writer canât monkey with causality. If fate, chance or the hand of God is running things, the outcome is âpredestinedâ. The Greeks and Shakespeare loved that, but modern drama requires more uncertainty. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (left) and Nadia Tereszkiewicz in Only the Animals. In fact, every writer knows that monkeying with causality is part of what they do, in order to manipulate uncertainty. Dominik Moll and co-writer Gilles Marchand certainly know it; they take coincidence to an extreme here, taunting us with their manipulations. The question is why? ....