{"id":15729,"date":"2023-06-22T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15729"},"modified":"2023-06-21T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:27:04","slug":"red-white-and-blue-2020-steve-mcqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15729","title":{"rendered":"Red, White and Blue (2020, Steve McQueen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White Ed says John Boyega would make a good cop, and after the cops fuck up his dad (Steve Toussaint of the latest <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> thing) real bad for telling them they&#8217;re wrong, John joins the force to combat racial misunderstanding.  His friends respond appropriately: &#8220;I thought you were cool.  What happened to you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weirdly, the racist police bosses don&#8217;t see what the new hires&#8217; diverse backgrounds can add to the police procedures, but at least they drop charges against John&#8217;s dad since they&#8217;d lose anyway and they know John is a good PR pull.  And weirdly, John&#8217;s very presence doesn&#8217;t make all the racism dry up, and weirdly he does everything right but still gets passed up for promotion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/redwhite.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Since I watched the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14078\">last one<\/a> of these, Criterion has issued a handsome box set, in which Ashley Clark says this movie and <em>Alex Wheatle<\/em> &#8220;form a compelling diptych exploring the true stories of two Black men whose vastly different lives are irrevocably shaped by negative interactions with the police,&#8221; so maybe I shouldn&#8217;t wait two years before checking out the next chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Ed says John Boyega would make a good cop, and after the cops fuck up his dad (Steve Toussaint of the latest Game of Thrones thing) real bad for telling them they&#8217;re wrong, John joins the force to combat racial misunderstanding. His friends respond appropriately: &#8220;I thought you were cool. What happened to you?&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15747,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions\/15747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}