This documentary is like when you can't look away from a car crash. It's sort of horrible, but fascinating. I love the approach of just using archival news footage.
Completely disagree with the person complaining about it being too biased. The news footage included does not make the violent looters look good at all. You see their insensible violence, the deaths, and also the despair of shop owners. They are made to look just as bad as the police officers.
But the film does a good job of explaining how this powder keg exploded. It makes it quite clear that while it started with King, this isn't something he wanted to happen, and it quickly digressed to having nothing to do with that.
What's nice about only using the news footage and seeing what people said and did is that you can read between the lines and draw your own conclusions. This is just as much about poverty as it is racism.
And the worst part is that the US has barely moved on from the situation of 1992, so it's happening again and again in 2014 and 2020. And probably beyond.
Completely disagree with the person complaining about it being too biased. The news footage included does not make the violent looters look good at all. You see their insensible violence, the deaths, and also the despair of shop owners. They are made to look just as bad as the police officers.
But the film does a good job of explaining how this powder keg exploded. It makes it quite clear that while it started with King, this isn't something he wanted to happen, and it quickly digressed to having nothing to do with that.
What's nice about only using the news footage and seeing what people said and did is that you can read between the lines and draw your own conclusions. This is just as much about poverty as it is racism.
And the worst part is that the US has barely moved on from the situation of 1992, so it's happening again and again in 2014 and 2020. And probably beyond.