Red, White and Blue (2020)

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Red, White and Blue is a historical drama movie who tells based on true stories about black people seeking justice and reform for incidents of police brutality. This movie is the final chapter of Steve McQueen's (who also the director of this movie) "Small Axe" series to be screened at the New York Film Festival. This movie released on 24 September 2020 (New York Film Festival) and 29 November 2020 (United Kingdom). It starring

Plot

Leroy as a Police Officer

Red, White and Blue portrays the real story of Leroy Logan, a young forensic expert who yearns to do better than do his own laboratory work. When he sees his father attacked by two officers, he finds himself motivated to reconsider his childhood desire to become a police officer; an ambition born out of the misguided dream of having to transform racist opinions from inside. First, Leroy has to confront the consequences of his father's rejection, never mind the glaring racism he discovers in his current job as a hated and admirable constable in the Metropolitan Police Force. John Boyega (Star Wars: Force Awakens) and Steve Toussaint (Prince of Persia) stars with young newcomers Tyrone Huntley, Nathan Vidal and Jaden Oshenye. Red, White and Blue was co-written by Courttia Newland and Steve McQueen.[1]

Controversy

There is a scene when cop car pulling up to Kenneth’s parked truck in the background as he orders food from a stand. But he get brutaly beaten just because he rightly asks why he’s being ticketed for blocking the highway when he’s clearly not in the way. He even try to prove it by showing tape measure that he’s within the legal limit for space but he get a more vicious beatdown.

Leroy, who even already become a policer still confront the racism within the force. the majority of his White counterparts have no intention of seeing him as a real cop, racial slurs are written on his locker and comments are made while he is within earshot. It depicts how hard the struggle of a young men who seeks the justice and equality just because he is a black.[2]

Black Empowerment

The movie shows about a young black men who decided to become a police officer in ordere to find the justice and fight racism from within the force. Because he had several experience of witnessing the continued violence from the police officer against his community. His family also give him the best education by going to college to make him smarter and to avoid jus hanging with the another boys who populate their neighborhood because they thought it will protect him who live as a black young man in the middle of police brutality[3] Leroy Logan went on to found the Black Police Association, start an organization for at-risk youth, and write a memoir. In the end even though he can't permanently fix the system but it’s worth the struggle.[4]

"Logan later be elected as the first chair of the National Black Police Association in 1998, receive a Member of the British Empire award from Queen Elizabeth in 2000, and later retire in 2013 after 30 years in the force."[5]

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