FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Spike Lee - Sucker Free City

Spike Lee sees the world with great passion and rage. He is not only one of the very best, but above all one of the most decisive filmmakers in America. His central theme: race. Very important: In Spike Lee movies you see black characters who are connected to each other. Not just with a hypothetical white audience. Here you see the black middle class of America as it really is. I think. And Lee does not offer a definite attitude. But anybody with a heart will like Spike Lee's characters. We don't have to understand them completely, nor should we forgive them everything. But: We can identify with their fears and frustrations! In Sucker Free City it only takes five seconds to come to a conclusion: They (the producers in charge) screwed up big time! Spike Lee shows the gang life in San Francisco with black, Chinese and white fighters. Spike Lee builds up his characters for a subsequent TV series - which never got off the ground. We have to make do with the pilot film. And Sucker Free City would have been a great series! Appearance Nick (Ben Crowley), whose parents have to move because of gentrification. His parents (played by John Savage and Kathy Baker) are old hippies who probably think moving to Hunter's Point is a good idea. But in Hunter's Point the gang war rages. We find ourselves in the middle of the demimonde of petty criminals who want to make the climb. They collect protection money for the Chinese Mafia, like Hip Hop, cars and are not too smart. Just like Angela (T.V. Carpio). All this is told with a lot of passion and humor. Can you call all this a simple culture clash? I think that all protagonists suppress something. Not only Nick's parents of 68. That's how life on the street works. You just have to spend an afternoon on the terrace of our bar and listen to the "homies". How they talk about their dreams and how much they are simply repressing. And what happens in the end? Not much. Sucker Free City should have been a big series! But as I said; the people in charge thoroughly blew that chance!

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