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I loved the tonal whiplash - it was an interesting way of dealing with the problem all movies featuring literal fascists face, in that the antagonists are both buffoonish clowns and legitimately threatening, at the same time, in real life. There is danger in portraying the actual enemies of humankind as strong uncompromising jackboots, because it downplays the comical stupidity of their foundational ideas. There is also danger in portraying them as utter clowns that can be easily defeated by cartoon trickery, because it ignores their past successes and the inherent violence of their continued existence. This movie seemed to say "gently caress white supremacist nazi trash" in both ways, if that makes any sense. My only complaint is that the movie's entertaining heavy handedness seems to put a lot of it at solely at Trump's feet. He is, of course, the most obvious spokesperson for that ideology right now, but the slime of humanity includes powerful actors far smarter and subtler than that soft failed socialite fat gently caress. I also disliked that Spike Lee elected to black out the faces/eyes of literal nazis during the final IRL clips. They're screaming about Jews and raising flaming torches in the name of genocide. They picked their loving side, and were oh so proud to do so. Show those proud fucks for what they gleefully chose to be. They weren't hiding when the torches burned. Their grandchildren should know who they were.
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