From the March on Washington in August 1963 until his murder in April 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was subject to an asphyxiating surveillance and smearing campaign waged by the FBI and its director, J. Edgar Hoover. Worried that the rise of “a black messiah” would upset the segregated status-quo, Hoover sought to weaponize ill-obtained information on King’s private life, such as his extramarital affairs, to discredit his public persona. Drawing from long-secret documents, and anticipating the release of others stored in the National Archives, Sam Pollard’s incendiary, deeply unnerving MLK/FBI chronicles the long and restless history of the bureau’s harassment. As Simran Hans notes at The Observer, the portrait Pollard paints of King is that of “a complicated and fallible man rather than an untouchable icon,” while the film itself raises some crucial, and often disturbing, questions about the ethics of examining the past.
- 1/21/2021
- MUBI
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