The policeman who provoked the rookie about the Muslim diet and clothing claimed to be a devil’s advocate. Do subsequent events bear this claim out?Explain

The black Canadian experience

Block Cop (2017), written and directed by Cory Bowles

1. How does the film begin and end? (What is the same? What is different?)

2. How does talk radio relate to the events of the film?

3. How does the sound track relate to the film’s events?

4. Each of the three parts has an epigraph: L “Brother, Brother, Brother” (Marvin Gaye), IL lust a friendly game of baseball” (Main Source) and HI. “Zombie no go” (Bela Kuti). What do they mean?

5. The policeman who provoked the rookie about the Muslim diet and clothing claimed to be a devil’s advocate. Do subsequent events bear this claim out?

G. Think about the first scene in which the protagonist goes rogue. Before doing so, he had overheard another police officer radio in a problem. What about it triggered the protagonist to act?

7. After going rogue, the protagonist almost strikes a young black woman pedestrian. He apologizes. Explain why this scene would be included in the film.

8. What is the point of the series of questions that begins: “Imagine if I said to the paraplegic assault victim, why didn’t you just walk away?” […] Imagine if I said to the domestic violence victim, by talking about abuse, you perpetrate the abuse?’

9. What do you notice about the references to the protagonist’s father?

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