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Da 5 Bloods

1 THE OPENING MONTAGE

Offering some context of the turbulent social and racial history of the ’60s, opens with a montage of clips and images featuring Malcolm X, anti-war riots, Martin Luther King Jr, the Kent State shootings, Ho Chi Minh and Lyndon B. Johnson. The result is instructive, concise and charged with righteous energy; for anyone of a younger generation it helps to give a preliminary look at the clashes happening at the heart of American society. Particularly trenchant is

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