"Four Little Girls" is representative of what Spike Lee does best, namely raise the level of consciousness of movie-going audiences who are constantly fed fake mind-numbing violence. The violence that snuffed the lives of four young black girls in Sunday school was, however, all too real. Using the testimony and commentary of family members, friends, and other individuals who remember this incident, Lee manages to take us back to that awful day when American racism and hatred revealed itself in all of its unbridled virulence. "Four Little Girls" is a masterpiece not simply because of its subject, but because of Lee's brilliant use of oral history--proving again that real life is stranger and often more brutal and ugly than fiction.
Review of 4 Little Girls
