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Just saw it and thought it was really good. Like a lot of Lee's work it's uneven and basically took on the world, but the highs were really goddamn high. Two things really stood out to me: The tonal variation that allowed him to portray the Klan as both incompetent dolts worthy of endless mockery but also dangerous was amazing. Usually you do one or the other but that was spot on and really sold the theme. The other is the white power/black power montage which is just a masterclass in film storytelling basically setting up the radically different and yet self-referencing philosophies and summing up American race relations. It's outstanding. And is no one going to mention Harry Motherfucking Belafonte laying down the civil rights struggle during that scene? That was a beautiful nod to a hero.
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