Detroit (2017)
Country: US
Technical: col 143m
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith
Synopsis:
One night during days of rioting in Detroit, 1967, a close harmony singer and a security guard get caught up in a police raid on a motel which results in brutalisation of suspects, flouting of legal rights such as Miranda, and a triple homicide.
Review:
Still topical 50 years on, this civil rights drama takes its time to fasten onto its characters' story arc, creating a semi-documentary ambience, before settling into a gruelling centrepiece at the Algiers motel. As one might expect from this director, a film that bludgeons its audience into acceptance of its version of events and the (less disputable) politics at its heart. A timely wake-up call for a Trump America still dishing out inequality and police rough treatment.
Country: US
Technical: col 143m
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith
Synopsis:
One night during days of rioting in Detroit, 1967, a close harmony singer and a security guard get caught up in a police raid on a motel which results in brutalisation of suspects, flouting of legal rights such as Miranda, and a triple homicide.
Review:
Still topical 50 years on, this civil rights drama takes its time to fasten onto its characters' story arc, creating a semi-documentary ambience, before settling into a gruelling centrepiece at the Algiers motel. As one might expect from this director, a film that bludgeons its audience into acceptance of its version of events and the (less disputable) politics at its heart. A timely wake-up call for a Trump America still dishing out inequality and police rough treatment.
Country: US
Technical: col 143m
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith
Synopsis:
One night during days of rioting in Detroit, 1967, a close harmony singer and a security guard get caught up in a police raid on a motel which results in brutalisation of suspects, flouting of legal rights such as Miranda, and a triple homicide.
Review:
Still topical 50 years on, this civil rights drama takes its time to fasten onto its characters' story arc, creating a semi-documentary ambience, before settling into a gruelling centrepiece at the Algiers motel. As one might expect from this director, a film that bludgeons its audience into acceptance of its version of events and the (less disputable) politics at its heart. A timely wake-up call for a Trump America still dishing out inequality and police rough treatment.