on Showtime.Īuspices: Directed by Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin (the Oscar-winning doc “Undefeated”), the film will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival before airing on National Geographic. “Burn Motherf*cker, Burn!” premieres Friday, April 21 at 9 p.m. It’s a cautionary tale of how we’re doomed to repeat this pattern of oppression, disorder and violence unless somehow we break it before it breaks us.
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While the doc seeks to find a solution to the situation, even some of the talking heads are stumped as to how to achieve mutual empathy when hatred and fear are so ingrained. Relevance to today: The documentary draws an easy parallel between the situation in Los Angeles to the country’s ongoing issue with police brutality and killing of black people and the current Black Lives Matter movement. Blatant and unflinching, the documentary depicts a world that is neither well-balanced nor fair.
While Jenkins makes an effort to tell this Los Angeles story from every side, it has roots from the oppression from slavery in the South as well that followed both blacks and whites as they escaped west. Under the watch of two police chiefs - William Parker and his protege Daryl Gates - white officers sought to control the poverty-stricken black neighborhoods using military tactics, but that ongoing oppression led to fuses being lit during the Watts and Rodney King riots. Jenkins delves into the difficulties between blacks in Los Angeles and the LAPD that have been nurtured through decades of systematic racism and mistrust. Overall theme: The provocative title well summarizes the hate and destructive mentality that are at the root of black people wanting to fight back after being mistreated for centuries. Other songs echoed this atmosphere of frustration, such as Ice-T’s “6 in the Mornin,’” “Peace Treaty” by Kam, Ice Cube’s “Black Korea” and “How I Could Just Kill a Man,” by Cypress Hill.
Jane’s Addiction’s “Pigs in Zen” kicks off a frenzied opening sequence that serves as a backdrop to the montage of images black inequality, racism and civil unrest. Standout music: The soundtrack is energetic and angry, with songs mainly from Los Angeles musicians.
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Key talking heads: The series interviews a broad swath of people ranging from the Los Angeles’ current police chief Charlie Beck, to a juror in the Rodney King trial, residents of South Central LA and Asians in the community to those who would comment on the situation from a cultural perspective, such as civil rights attorneys, an urban theorist, journalists and famous Los Angeles residents like musicians from Jane’s Addictionand B Real and Chef Roy Choi. The most disturbing piece opens the series in which a black journalist interviews an eighth-generation plantation owner who discusses how Southern whites viewed their black slaves. Source footage: Jenkins mines multiple sources including archival news footage, security cam footage, camcorder tapes, cell phone videos for more recent footage of police brutality, snippets of game shows and talk shows to present a bigger look at the culture of unrest and distrust that existed far longer than even the 1965 Watts riots. Los Angeles City Archives/Courtesy of SHOWTIMEĪuspices: Sacha Jenkins, who chronicled hip-hop and urban fashion from a historical perspective in “Fresh Dressed,” tackles civil unrest in Los Angeles before during and after the Rodney King verdict in 1992. All are powerful and well done, but some manage to better encapsulate why it’s important that we study, and learn from, what happened on April 29, 1992. Among the filmmakers putting their own stamp on the story: John Ridley, John Singleton, Sacha Jenkins, Dan Lindsay, and TJ Martin. riots, including the underlying reasons, the actual events, what happened next, and how it relates to today. Several new documentaries explore the L.A. But has the rest of the country? Regular reports of police brutality, now well-documented in an age of phone cameras, makes it clear that we haven’t come all that far. It’s 25 years later, and Los Angeles – and the LAPD – have changed. READ MORE: How Spike Lee, John Singleton and John Ridley Left Their Marks on the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots
Yet the four men seen clubbing King were acquitted by a Simi Valley jury in 1992, lighting a match for one of the deadliest and costliest civil unrests in U.S. There’s no question that Rodney King was brutally beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers – video taken of the savage act proves it.
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