The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Netflix review - civil rights and singing in an unjust world
An investigation into the life and untimely death of a civil rights hero
The Two Killings of Sam Cooke is a programme of multiples, a film which plays with doubles, divergences, and different narrative strands. It begins almost as if it will become a true crime investigation into a life cut short, moves into a more traditional music documentary, then ends on a defiant, powerful cry that his story (and his death) should still be so relevant.