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Stoking the flames of audiences' anger
Queen And Slim leaves viewers filled with rage against injustice, while Disturbing The Peace is just maddeningly mediocre
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A young black couple are out for a drive. A white officer pulls them over. The policeman is agitated and aggressive. The two assert their rights as citizens. The result is a bad stop, a bad night and a body on the ground.
There is a sub-genre of American documentary films built on incidents such as these, the kind that fill viewers with white-hot rage and leave them with nowhere to put the feelings.
