Official Discussion: BlacKkKlansman [SPOILERS]

I did not at all mean to insinuate that the scenes were irrelevant and without meaning. I'll go and change my comment now (except for the first one with the lady and the wounded soldiers; I cannot for the life of me figure out what that scene was trying to say or why it needed to be in the film). But for the other two (Alex Baldwin and the final scene), I just feel like the film could have done without them because they almost beat a dead horse, at least in my opinion.

Having the story self contained (with mutiple allusions and forth-wall breaking moments that served to parallel to contemporary culture) is enough to get the point across of systematic opression. But - at least in my opinion - having scenes that explicitly do that are bad filmmaking. "Show, don't tell us Spike Lee" is something I thought at the end of the film.

/r/movies Thread Parent