Set in 1970 Colorado Springs, Spike Lee’s award-winning film, Blackklansman, published in 2018 during the peak of the BLM movement, delves deep into the concerns of discrimination and racial oppression. Blackklansman takes historically accurate experiences from African Americans, and cultivates a film with not only comedy but also challenges racial beliefs some groups to this day may still have. Cross-burnings were a practice fabricated by KluKluxKlan to cleanse and threaten the Jewish and African American communities. But why not? Why would the KKK incinerate their faith’s symbol? This is because the KKK instead of seeing it as incinerating their faith’s symbol, they see it as a “lighting” of the cross to show a member’s faith in Christ. In Spike Lee’s film Blackkklansman, a large burning cross is featured towards the end of the film, which is presented with a worm’s eyes shot, with this shot Lee shows the burning cross as an extremely tall and …show more content…
The music Lee utilises within the scene causes viewers to think and feel that the fight has only just begun and there’s still so much left to do, which in essence is what the scene is trying to convey to the audience, the music in itself emits a dangerous and ominous aura which, integrated with the scene, creates an uneasy and disturbing ambience. The lighting portrayed within this scene is extremely expressive, with a dark background and the burning cross being the only light source within the scene it creates a very centred effect around the burning cross, as if the KKK is trying to say, this is what their purpose is and they are committed to fulfilling it. Furthermore, as the only light source within the scene, the cross symbolises that there’s nowhere to hide, therefore adding to the ominous nature Lee constructs into the