Review of Red Hook Summer (2012) by Tyler H — 21 Oct 2012
Spike Lee's latest is his most challenging and unsettling work to date. The small amount of marketing support behind this film presented it as a cross between Crooklyn and Robert Duvall's The Apostle.
They got it right, but it's not a 50/50 split. Yes it is yet another chapter in Spike Lee's Brooklyn saga, but Red Hook Summer's main storyline, withdrawn teen's coming of age in the summertime, serves as a Trojan horse for the film's central message which dares to question the effectiveness of organized religion.
However, this subject should not be too much of a shock for Spike's base. Remember Jungle Fever? The sins of two morally comprised grown sons are ultimately blamed on their strict Baptist preacher father who blamed everything on the devil.
..even crack. Both films are classics...then and now.
This review of Red Hook Summer (2012) was written by Tyler H on 21 Oct 2012.
Red Hook Summer has generally received mixed reviews.
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