FILMS
DA 5 BLOODS There could hardly be a more significant moment for a new Spike Lee joint. As the killing of George Floyd leaves America in turmoil, Lee’s Netflix release Da 5 Bloods looks back at the Vietnam war and asks what it meant for black America.
Movies about the war have tended to cast African-American soldiers as onlookers to the tragedies of white heroes, whether it’s Laurence Fishburne’s character in or Forest Whitaker in . corrects that tendency, and offers a critical commentary on it, in its story of four black veterans who return to Vietnam today on a personal mission – locate a cache of gold bullion and bring back the body of Stormin’ Norman (Chadwick Boseman), their heroic and idealistic platoon leader. One man in particular, Paul (Delroy Lindo), is haunted by visions of the
