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What was Spike up to with this one? The opening credits dissolved into an homage of 911, which gave me a chill. We then jump into the personal drama of Norton's dilemma of facing sevens years in the joint and its effect on him and his "close" friends. But again, in one scene, Hoffman visits Pepper's apartment which is across from the destroyed WTC!! They sit on the window frame while the camera captures the last of the clean up. And the scene ends with closeups of the workers cleaning away . . .As for humor, if you can call it that, there was a scene where Norton's mirror-image blasted every racial group in NYC. It was funny.
But in the closing, there was a resonance of "The Last Temptation" as Norton and his dad were driving to prison--or were they?
I enjoyed 25th, but it is certainly not for the casual entertainment seeker. The film is quite different from the construct of the trailers I saw.
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i heard spike used the anger of the entire nation and specifically new york for the wtc as a backdrop to the main character's rage.
a macrocosm for his emotions and helplessness.the mirror scene was terrific - showing his self-hatred externalized. one possible interpretation of the ending car ride - while passing peacefully by all of the ny characters he railed against in the mirror - maybe that was his coming to peace with them and therefore, ny and himself.
Saw this movie and, like yourself, quite liked it...but I think Spike Lee also had too much time on his hands. He didn't seem content enough to make a movie about a non-repentent drug dealer spending his last night on the town. For whatever reason he needed to bring in 9-11, and then other generalizations about the US and what it means to be an New Yorker. It was simply out of place.Doug Schneider
Spike used the backdrop of 9/11 and the WTC as an excuse to add drama and atmosphere to his pedestrian and forgettable drama about unlikable characters.It's cheap, it's tasteless and it's unconscionable.
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