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Jun 12, 2020 · Da 5 Bloods. Spike Lee ’s excellent “Da 5 Bloods” opens with Muhammad Ali and closes with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two legends who are inextricably tied to the Civil Rights movement and Black pride. Lee uses them to highlight another commonality: their strenuous opposition to the Vietnam War.
- Spike Lee explores the legacies of American racism and the Vietnam war in his remarkable new Netflix film.
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By Zaki Hasan
Updated: Apr 9, 2022 12:06 am
Posted: Jun 11, 2020 8:30 pm
Da 5 Bloods debuts exclusively on Netflix on June 12.
Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee’s epic and introspective meditation on the Vietnam war, is another reminder of the filmmaker’s considerable storytelling skills irrespective of what genre he chooses to work in. Bolstered by an absolutely mesmerizing central performance from Delroy Lindo, the film is a raw and rewarding deep dive into two countries’ still-open wounds decades after the intractable conflict that stitched them together.
On the one hand it’s tempting to say how amazingly timely it feels given our nation’s current painful national discourse surrounding race and violence. The death of George Floyd, the subsequent protests, and the renewed focus on the Black Lives Matter movement lends the subject matter a “ripped from the headlines” immediacy. But in truth that’s just a sad reflection of how timeless Lee’s themes continue to be. After all, we’re now thirty-one years removed from the release of Lee’s seminal Do The Right Thing, and it might as well have been filmed last week.
While the performances are stellar across the board (including an appearance by the always welcome Jean Reno), the whole thing is held together by an absolutely showpiece performance from Delroy Lindo (someone who carries gravitas in his back pocket, even when appearing in disposable stuff like Romeo Must Die or The One). From the start, Paul proudly invokes his support for President Trump, which offers a window into his view of the world and himself. (“Time we got these freeloading immigrants off our back and build that wall,” he says at one point, inviting gleeful derision from his fellow “Bloods.”)
Eventually Paul is joined in Vietnam by his estranged son David (Jonathan Majors, making another strong mark here after previously impressing in last year’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco), who has his own issues with his father he’s attempting to work through even as he tries to help him. What becomes increasingly clear as the story progresses is that there’s more to the gold than we thought, there’s more to Norm’s death than we assumed, and all of it is tied up in Paul’s continuing PTSD.
Spike Lee has still got game. One thing you can say about him is that in nearly forty years of filmmaking, he’s never repeated himself, always doing new things in new ways. And Da 5 Bloods is no exception. While it covers thematic terrain that’s very familiar for him and us, he does it in a way that feels fresh and insightful. Benefitting from a st...
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Jun 13, 2020 · Spike Lee’s new film, “Da 5 Bloods” (streaming on Netflix), pulls the traumas of black men’s experiences of the Vietnam War out of obscurity and puts them in the forefront of political ...
Jun 10, 2020 · Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman and The Da Vinci Code's Jean Reno star in Da 5 Bloods, the newest movie from legendary director Spike Lee.
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Jun 12, 2020 · Read Matt Goldberg's Da 5 Bloods review; Spike Lee's movie for Netflix stars Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Jonathan Majors, and Chadwick Boseman.
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