BlacKkKlansman

Infiltrate Hate.


BlacKkKlansman
Lee’s most acclaimed and successful film since Do the Right Thing takes a look at how Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan with the help of a fellow white office, who eventually became head of the local branch. The film narrowly avoided being banned here in South Africa.

135 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence, Prejudice, Blasphemy, Drug abuse).
Biographical, Comedy, Crime, Drama.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast
John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier, Alec Baldwin, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Robert John Burke, Brian Tarantina, Arthur J. Nascarella, Ken Garito, Frederick Weller
Director
Spike Lee
ScreenplayCharlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee, from the book by Ron Stallworth
MusicTerence Blanchard
CinematographyChayse Irvin
EditingBarry Alexander Brown
Sound formatsDolby Atmos
SoundtrackAvailable
Made in2018
Produced by40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Blumhouse Productions, Legendary Entertainment, Monkeypaw Productions, Perfect World Pictures, QC Entertainment

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

GenreBiographical crime comedy.
LanguageThe film contains frequent strong impact language, including swearing and insults, as well as demeaning, prejudicial and blasphemous language.
NudityNone
SexNone
ViolenceStrong impact violence occurs infrequently, including realistic footage of violent protests and descriptions of torture.
PrejudiceFrequent moderate impact prejudice based on race, gender, religion and sexual orientation.
BlasphemyFairly frequent moderate impact blasphemy, with religion being used to justify prejudice.
Drug abuseNone (sic)
CommentsThe biographical crime comedy BlacKkKlansman explores themes of racism, black liberation, teamwork, love, undercover police work, religion, power, race relations and segregation, presented in a historical, educational context involving prejudice. These themes are complex and mature, with themes off racism, bigotry and hatred based on race and religion being potentially confusing, upsetting or distressing to children under 16 years, particularly give the sense of threat and menace in which it is presented. However, the material contains educational messages against prejudice and segregation by black and Jewish lobby groups, and messages of tolerance within the police department towards the end of the film, which have a mitigating impact.

Themes and displays of prejudice, bigotry and racism contains elements which can be seen to advocate hatred and incitement to cause harm and depicts acts which constitute incitement, encouragement and promotion of harmful behaviour. The material is however exempted from a “Refused Classification” based on dramatic and artistic value according to the proviso in Chapter 4 Section 18 (3)(a)(ii) and (b)(ii) of the Films and Publications Act.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

USA MPAA rating

R: RestrictedRated R for language throughout, including racial epithets, and for disturbing/violent material and some sexual references
Runtime135
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity
3
Violence
4
Blood / Gore / Gross
3
Guns / Weapons
4
Profanity
5
Alcohol / Drugs
3
Smoking
3
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude
5
Imitative Behaviour
5
Frightening / Tense Scenes
4
Jump Scenes
0
Tense Family Scenes
1
Music (Scary/Tense)
0
Music (Inappropriate)
0
Topics to talk about
5

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit
15 +
Positive messages
3
Positive role models
3
Violence
3
Sex
1
Language
4
Consumerism
0
Drinking, drugs, smoking
2

Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

Cape Argus / The Star
Masego Panyane quote iconLee in top form in hilarious look at KKK.
10
Cape Times
Unknown
15
24.com
Alex Isaacs quote iconThe best thing about this film is that it is uncompromising in the delivery of its message: America is racist. On every level. Throughout history and especially today.
20
Metacritic.com
53 critics
16
Rottentomatoes critics
216 critics
16
Rottentomatoes tomatometer
Tomatometer quote iconBlacKkKlansman uses history to offer bitingly trenchant commentary on current events -- and brings out some of Spike Lee’s hardest-hitting work in decades along the way.
19
Movie Review Query Engine
MRQE critics quote icon
16
CommonSenseMedia
Michael Ordona quote iconLots of language in Lee’s fact-based dark comedy.
15

What the People say

Metacritic.com users
63 users
15
Rottentomatoes users
2494 users
15
IMDB
6835 Netizens
15
The Movie DB
Community
15

Average .. 78%

16

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