Thursday, February 4, 2010

School Daze

Spike Lee's second movie is some bizarre piece of auteurism masked as a college sex comedy set at an HBCU. It's got all the expected weird and wacky characters who get into college hijinx, but then there's a Broadway-style musical number in the middle, racial tension between light and dark skinned girls, and a strange tonal turn in the last five minutes where a girl (basically) gets raped and there's all these nonsensical angles and Laurence Fishburne yelling at the camera. I don't hesitate to call Spike Lee one of the three or four genius directors alive, but often, like Tarantino or PT Anderson he'll just make a movie that so abrasively bucks audience expectations that it's difficult to know what to make of it as a film. Also, I'm glad he stopped putting himself in his own movies because he is NOT A GOOD ACTOR.

RATING: 63%

4 comments:

  1. I liked Do the Right Thing. Didn't see this one. Thought Malcolm X was boring and The 25th Hour was pretentious and boring. That's pretty much Internet John on Spike Lee.

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  2. Frankie Muniz is half Puerto Rican, cracker.

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