Spike Lee has directed movies about the black experience in America for three decades and BlackKklansman is now the current bookend to the sensational Do The Right Thing which came out exactly 30 years ago.
Do the Right Thing never reached Manila and that year had so many feel good movies - Field of Dreams, Dead Poet's Society - that a young 18 year old me was more interested in watching.
Anyway, I already had my racism 'education' a year before with Mississippi Burning and the harrowing TV series Roots a few years back.
It takes a clever, sensitive screenwriter to be able to balance humor, anger and suspense - all in one movie - and Lee and his co-writers were able to do just that in this movie.
There were many funny albeit incredibly absurd scenes in the movie - so you laugh, then you get serious especially in that scene where the story about that poor retarded black person burned to death was being narrated.
The editing of that one was superb - alternating between gut-wrenching and edge of your seat suspense.
There were also news footages in the movie about recent riots and demonstrations which I'm not quite familiar with. To foreigners I guess, it can be a blur since that issue of cops killing black people has been there for decades.
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