While this wasn't Spike Lee's best film, it was certainly his most unusual. Instead of depicting the life of the common black man, he decided to focus on the travails of one hot summer in Brooklyn. All of the lifestyles the people lived mixed and matched nicely, and the performances were rather believable. I was rather surprised Spike Lee's signature was under the directorial credit in this film, considering the only black man in the film was Reggie Jackson. But then again, he proved he could depict the lives of other cultures as well as he could his own. Not perfect by any respect, but an interesting tale about paranoia.
Review of Summer of Sam
