Review of Clockers (1995) by Gordon B — 03 Jul 2007
For years the nightly news reports broadcast the deaths of anonymous black males in the inner city. Spike Lee's interpretation of Richard Price's mystery novel is a complex, psychological, and moving portrayal of (as the title song says) peole in search of a life.
Deeper than "Boyz in the Hood" and more intricate than "Mystic River", Clockers did not see its inner city setting as a opportunity for socioeconomic preaching, but as a stage where the established roles of family, law enforcement, and community and subverted complicated, and tested, until all its characters remained changed forever.
This review of Clockers (1995) was written by Gordon B on 03 Jul 2007.
Clockers has generally received positive reviews.
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