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What Killed Michael Brown?
Representation Score
5.2/10
Fair
2020
Director
Eli Steele
Runtime
109 minutes
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What Killed Michael Brown? disrupts prevailing social orthodoxies by challenging standard racial grievance clichés. It offers a critique of contemporary sociological frameworks. The film’s intellectual depth and willingness to complicate the cultural discourse on Black American ability to act are notable strengths. However, its narrow focus on racial and political issues leaves gaps in representation for gender, disability, and LGBTQ+ identities.
Category Breakdown
Does What Killed Michael Brown? have LGBTQ+ representation?
The documentary focuses on racial justice and systemic critique in Ferguson and Minneapolis. It does not engage with LGBTQ+ themes or character arcs.
How does What Killed Michael Brown? portray gender?
The narrative centers on the intersection of race and state authority. It does not explore gender-based power dynamics or challenge gender hierarchies.
How racially and ethnically diverse is What Killed Michael Brown??
The film provides a platform for non-traditional perspectives on Black empowerment. It examines the narrative of systemic racism through Shelby Steele’s specific arguments.
How does What Killed Michael Brown? represent religion and culture?
The film critiques dominant Western sociological institutions and social justice frameworks. It emphasizes individual ability to act and intellectual skepticism over collective identity-based frameworks.
Does What Killed Michael Brown? include disability representation?
The film does not provide any information regarding the depiction of physical or neurodivergent identities.
Present on Screen
- Provides a non-traditional perspective on Black empowerment and ability to act.
- Challenges dominant Western sociological and social justice frameworks.
- Emphasizes intellectual skepticism regarding systemic power dynamics.
Limited or Absent
- Lacks engagement with LGBTQ+ themes or character arcs.
- Does not address gender-based power dynamics or hierarchies.
- Provides no representation for physical or neurodivergent identities.
Official Synopsis
Acclaimed writer, Shelby Steele, has long argued that systemic racism is more a strategy than a truth, and that the universal oppression of black Americans is largely over with. But the 2014 shooting of a black teen, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri by a white policeman shook the nation to its core. During Steele’s investigation of Ferguson, America was once again rocked by the brutal killing of George Floyd. Didn’t these killings, and the long list of others like them, put the lie to Steele’s argument?
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