by Simone E., Editor-in-Chief Everyone sat in the Multicultural Center: some were munching on popcorn, others were doing homework, while some participated in light conversation. No one was prepared for the intensity that is the movie Detroit.
No matter how many horror movies you’ve seen, you always walk away from them relatively unscathed. Even movies about real events are usually roughly based on the true story and are often extremely dramatized in order to make the movie seem more interesting. Detroit was almost too real. It opens with a police search that seems all too familiar and as the movie begins to unfold, it becomes hard to watch, but hard to look away. This can’t really be happening can it? We thought the same thing countless times when black faces filled your laptop or phone screen before a gunshot was heard and suddenly, they were dead. The only difference was, Detroit was set in the 1960s: they didn’t even have phones to record the evidence. As if that helps; but, I digress. The movie is tantalizingly realistic, everyone was gripping their seat, and because of this, I’m not going to spoil the movie. I’ll just say this, it was hard to leave that movie without being angry about something. If you know you won’t watch the movie, but want to know about the Detroit riots, the Algiers hotel, and the rest of the story, read this: http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/detroit/
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