Review of School Daze (1942) by Greg S — 26 Jan 2010

I miss the days when Spike's films were a pure rush of surreal style, where the characters live and breath within a fiercely dialectic world, and where there are no bad guys: only those who've woken up or stayed asleep.

Each character is bathed in Lee's music and light and so we don't rally against them but instead hope they'll one day succeed. Victory and loss is a confusing ultimatum especially in such a confusing place as college and what makes this flick so original is that it captures all of that without passing any judgments.

All Spike's movie knows is that something is wrong and people have to WAKE UP.