Detroit is a film about the 1967 race riots that has become known as the Detroit Rebellion. Director Kathryn Bigelow begins by setting the scene showing a police raid on an African-American speakeasy which escalates. The national guard and state troopers are called in to reinforce the Detroit police. We see a city under siege. Bigelow, however, concentrates on a specific horrific event, portraying a scene of police brutality of the highest order. Such an event is not some blip. We know these abuses of white power were happening, and we know they’re still happening. White power depends upon racial profiling. Bigelow’s film makes you recognise that this fight is not over and in order to abolish racism there is a need to distinguish that white privilege is still around. Especially with all the violence that we as the younger generation see, whether it be through social media or the 24-hour news. It is our role in society to make a difference and remember that we need to make active change and stand up for what is right. The characters in this film are “just kids” – as Julie defiantly declares. They are being stripped of their human rights by the government and the justice system. This is not in the past, and ignoring this fact is being part of the problem! The main thing that this film made me think about is our responsibility as a young, intelligent and united community to cause change in the world against everything that is wrong *cough Trump* and remove its power. Bigelow presents this story because it is one that needs to be told, and needs to be recognised.