![]() I apologize to those people.In all likelihood Spike Lee's most important achievement - as director, writer and actor (though to my taste Mo' Better Blues is just as good a picture) and one of the strongest films you'll see about race relations, 'Do The Right Thing' looks dated at times, but it lost none of its impact and relevance. And being tone-deaf, there were a lot of people that were hurt in my response, in the way I approached things. ![]() “And I’ve had a lot of time to think about that, and I’ve learned a lot from it. ‘Three years ago I was pretty tone-deaf to the realities of certain situations that were happening in the climate,” he said. In this way, it seems like a pointed protective decision for Lee to travel to Venice, where Parker addressed his refusal to apologize or speak about his charge and eventual acquittal for rape. ![]() Parker’s gambit about victims of a corrupt criminal-justice system more than hints at the director’s perspective on his real-life tribulations. Each character serves as a mouthpiece for Parker’s stilted script - to the point where some finish each other’s sentences as they discuss everything from race and class to education and violence in America. The result is a half-hearted retread of 12 Angry Men. When it turns out to be in short supply, Lincoln takes a police station hostage and stages his own forced version of a trial for the offending officer. In the wake of the tragedy, a 20-something student filmmaker, Jordin (Shane Paul McGhie), asks to follow Lincoln in his quest for legal justice. After they’re pulled over late one night, Lincoln’s life is forever altered by the desperate actions of a police officer (Beau Knapp) who shoots and kills an unarmed K.J. Parker stars as Lincoln Jefferson (yes, Lincoln Jefferson), an ex-Marine and working-class father raising his son, K.J. “We needed to get this thing out there and maybe save lives.” “We shot this movie in April, with some sense of urgency,” Parker told the crowd. Spike Lee both produced and presented the film, about a black man whose 14-year-old son is killed by a police officer. That changed with American Skin, which was added to the Venice lineup as a Special Screening. Birth of a Nation tanked at the box office, and not much has been heard from Parker since. He and his co-writing partner on the film, Jean Celestine, were charged with rape, though Parker was later acquitted and Celestine was convicted. Then details of rape allegations from his college years resurfaced. In 2016, Parker’s Birth of a Nation premiered at another film festival, Sundance, as an early awards contender. ![]() The filmmaker’s hyperbole wan’t surprising, but the fact that he was talking about Nate Parker’s American Skin was. “40 years from now you can say you were here.” “You’re a part of history,” Spike Lee told a sold-out screening at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday. A still from Nate Parker’s American Skin, which premiered at Venice Film Festival on Sunday. ![]()
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