25th Hour

I’ve waited three years to see this film. Being the first post 9/11 film actually shot in NYC I was hesitant to re-live the feel of the streets back then. But Spike Lee takes 9/11 and makes it a character as he shoots on the streets and over Ground Zero. He plays with the whole city landscape and reaffirms what is timeless of NYC: the melting pot, the ethnic conflicts, the greed, the lust, the race to success and the skyline in one form or another. The book actually pre-dates 9/11 but Spike does NYC zeitgeist like no one else so of course 9/11 would have to appear somewhere in his body of work. The film is solid, the cast is great and it’s awesome to have an opportunity to see a grown up drama not riddled by car chases or other Hollywood excess usually added to entertain the masses. Spike rules!
Favorite Scene: Outside the night club Monty talking his way in… one of the best lit shots I’ve ever seen.
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