I like the ending implication that Sammie had his own “Dylan goes electric” controversy

This is a kind of gleefully fascistic copaganda that just doesn’t exist anymore. Current copaganda is sanitized; it says cops are fundamentally good people. Maybe they fuck up sometimes, but they’re not racist, and they’re sharp and quick on the case.
In this movie, they’re stubborn morons who throw racial slurs around like candy on Halloween. They laugh like hyenas while wiretapping suspects. They have a body count higher than the criminals they chase. Their assholeishness is their greatest asset.…
Feel-bad poverty tourist oscarbait masquerading as bold independent filmmaking. The symbolism in this movie is so blunt that by the forty-five minute mark it felt like the film was bludgeoning me to death. If it was a short film I think its saving graces (great cinematography, primarily) would shine through more. As it stands, it feels empty, stretched well past its breaking point.