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 Barnes & Noble Spike Lee is easily Americas most confrontational filmmaker: Didactic, bombastic, and often as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face. His films, often standoffs on the impossible issue of race in America, are so hyper-realized that its difficult to ignore them. A strain of truth runs through Lees best work -- the visions of Brooklyn past and present in Crooklyn and Do the Right Thing, the strange life of a hero in Malcolm X, and the bizarre entanglements of fatherhood and basketball in He Got Game. However, Lee attains a heretofore hidden level of fierce restraint when dealing with nonfictional material in his first documentary, 4 Little Girls, a harrowing, angry film about a church bombing in Birmingham in 1963 that killed four black children. The bombing -- a crime so brutal as to give the entire nation pause -- was a watershed incident that galvanized the civil rights movement. But 4 Little Girls is more about the pain of losing daughters than the politics of making martyrs. That a raving Ku Klux Klansman is eventually convicted for the crime does not lessen the films impact at all. Lee interviews family members, parishioners, witnesses, and, perhaps most stirringly, former Alabama governor and vitriolic segregationist George Wallace, now weakened by age and a series of strokes and reliant on a black personal assistant. This is by far Lees quietest film and, save for Do the Right Thing, his most affecting. Pete Segall Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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