\nI watched Spike Lee\u2019s Da 5 Bloods over the weekend, and it\u2019s just such a good reminder of the kind of film it sometimes feels like only he can make \u2014 where a bunch of people just speak their mind about the world, often more to the camera than to each other, because that conversation essentially is the film.
\nDa 5 Bloods is a complicated one, dealing with America\u2019s legacy of destruction and violence and how it impacted both the black soldiers sent to fight in Vietnam (who represented a disproportionate number of US soldiers, as the film points out) and the people in Vietnam who suffered from their attacks. The film shows the pain that remains decades and generations later.
\nI don\u2019t know that every beat in the film worked for me (or even made sense moment to moment), but the broad strokes that Lee paints create a more challenging scenario than most other filmmakers would attempt to grapple with. That\u2019s enough of a reason to check it out.\n<\/div>\n
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