Hmm... I'm not impressed. I do appreciate the message of the movie from Spike Lee: Black people in the ghetto are killing themselves either by drugs or the gun and if they don't care enough to stop it, certainly no one else does.
The main character of this street slangin' soap opera was Strike (Mekhi Pfifer), a clocker for Rodney (Delroy Lindo). A clocker is a drug dealer that sells around the clock. Rodney tells Strike that if he wants to stop clocking on the project benches then he has to take out a thief named Daryl (Steve White). Daryl was taken out, but by whom was the question. Was it Strike, was it his brother, Victor (Isaiah Washington), or perhaps someone else entirely? Detective Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel) was determined to find out even if it meant the death of Strike.
Clockers was alright except all I saw was an amalgamation of several other similarly themed movies. I saw "Fresh," "Strapped," "Juice," and many other urban blight movies. This was a movie with no real protagonist.
Detective Rocco? He couldn't care less about a dead Black man, all he cared about was being right.
Strike? He was a drug dealer who was priming another young boy to be no-nothing drug dealer.
Victor? He was a murderer.
Officer Andre (Keith David)? He was the closest thing to a protagonist with the small role he was given.
I don't know what I was looking for in this movie; something positive for sure. I didn't have a positive feeling after watching it though, and I know that's life, but movies give us the ability to escape life every once in a while. "Clockers" wouldn't be that escape.
The main character of this street slangin' soap opera was Strike (Mekhi Pfifer), a clocker for Rodney (Delroy Lindo). A clocker is a drug dealer that sells around the clock. Rodney tells Strike that if he wants to stop clocking on the project benches then he has to take out a thief named Daryl (Steve White). Daryl was taken out, but by whom was the question. Was it Strike, was it his brother, Victor (Isaiah Washington), or perhaps someone else entirely? Detective Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel) was determined to find out even if it meant the death of Strike.
Clockers was alright except all I saw was an amalgamation of several other similarly themed movies. I saw "Fresh," "Strapped," "Juice," and many other urban blight movies. This was a movie with no real protagonist.
Detective Rocco? He couldn't care less about a dead Black man, all he cared about was being right.
Strike? He was a drug dealer who was priming another young boy to be no-nothing drug dealer.
Victor? He was a murderer.
Officer Andre (Keith David)? He was the closest thing to a protagonist with the small role he was given.
I don't know what I was looking for in this movie; something positive for sure. I didn't have a positive feeling after watching it though, and I know that's life, but movies give us the ability to escape life every once in a while. "Clockers" wouldn't be that escape.