It may be just a coincidence that “Burn” shares the same name as Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece about colonialism, but I could not help but think that the title of Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez’s documentary about firefighters in Detroit that opened yesterday at the Quad Cinema in NY alludes somehow to a kind of colonialism that has been imposed on one of America’s great cities. If Black America is an internal colony, as we unfashionable Marxists used to put it in the 1960s, then Detroit is most certainly its epicenter.
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