Crooklyn Dir. Spike Lee
Zelda Harris (Troy), Delroy Lindo (Woody), Alfre Woodard (Carolyn), Calton Williams (Clinton)
Universal Pictures, 1994.
The film Crooklyn takes place in New York, and follows one summer in the life of the Carmichaels, an African-American family living in 1970s. Delroy Lindo, and Alfre Woodard are a struggling married couple. He works as a struggling musician trying to support his family in the only way he knows how, and she an overworked school teacher bringing in the main meat of the families income. They do their best to keep up with their five children, while they raise them in an energetic and characterized neighborhood. Spike Lee directs with flair and the film is filled with specific details that compensate for the true values that communities in this time period, and place, shared.
The movie overall is a coming of age mainly based around the only daughter in a home of 5 (write out numbers up through ten) children. She struggles with many things including, body positivity, bullying, learning to understand financial stability, loss of a parent, peer pressure, and learning how to now be a main caretaker to her younger and older siblings. You would think that her mother's death would be a large part of the movie, but the way that it is portrayed by Lee, looks upon it as a simple step of life. This seems to be a trend throughout the movie, many of the dramatic momentous occasions are perceived to be as simple everyday finds. This can be both a negative and positive for my outlook on the movie, on one hand it may be hard to follow, and people may not understand the true depth of what has happened. But also, it shows a perspective on life that proves that people move forward when things happen.
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