Brooklyn Crooklyn...Smooklyn - Shawn Luzzi

Spike Lee piques my interest once more [past experiences include Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X] with this comedic film, Crooklyn, which go through the lives of an eccentric and large black family in Brooklyn. I found quite the interest to the film due to the family presented to us, with the multiple rowdy kids, the strict mother, the father perusing [pursuing?] what seemed like a dead career, and to the main little girl [protagonist], whom grew the most in character compared to the rest of the family. 

The movie focuses on Troy, the small little girl in the family, as she shows the most growth in this film compared to all the other characters [redundancy? Didn't you just say this?]. She goes from small sister that's bugged by her brothers, to a small delinquent [here are you referring to her experiences with shoplifting?], to a grown female after coming back from her forced visit to her Aunt's home [elaborate]. 

During the ending scene, after the disaster that strikes the family, Troy becomes equivalent to her mother, as she now has the duties of a mother and looks after her brothers with the same intent and strictness that her mother had before.