Fascism is a trendy subject these days, in our political arena, on our everyday lives, and the entertainment business.

The events from Charlottesville on August 12, 2017, when Heather Heyer was killed and dozens were injured by James, Alex Fields still in the news. An event hard to forget especially by the way our current administration dealt with this. Charlottesville is also one of the crucial elements shown in the new Spike Lee film BlacKkKlansman.

In the early 1970s, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) an African American cop from the Colorado Springs police department where he gets assigned to work at the records room. Ron is the object of racial mistreatment from his coworkers. So request to be transferred to the undercover department. His first assignment is going to a rally for the black student union where he meets Kwame Ture an important activist.

One day he reads in the paper advertising to join the Ku Klux Klan, he calls the number on the ad pretending to be white and use his coworker Detective Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) and he talks to the KKK the president of the Colorado Spring chapter requesting to join the group.

Spike Lee approach is very interesting, the use of humor as a tool for criticism is powerful and effective. It's important to mention how other directors saw fascism with humor, attacking the irony of leaders around the world. Charles Chaplin did it with The Great Dictator in the 1940s sending a message to the world about how wrong is an authoritarian leader who thinks is better than anyone else, or a film like Starship Troopers by Paul Verhoeven making fun of the war industry but translated to the future, where people on earth are just interested in conquering other planets just for the sake of being the world cop.

BlacKkKlansman is a great reminder that enemies are not only outside our country but in our backyard. Intolerant people with lack of respect and consideration to other with others who think differently.