Overlooked Spike Lee Joint on the cost of the crack years on the African American community
Clockers is a Spike Lee Joint about the cost of the crack years. The opening sequence drives that home as it pictures a series of dead black people killed because of drugs. This is the kind of film that Spike Lee was made to make. The story is loosely based upon a book by Richard Price. It focuses upon a local drug dealer Strike (Mekhi Phifer). The man he works for is Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo) who is like a father figure to him. There are also two detectives Klein (Harvey Keitel) and Mazilli (John Turturro).<br /><br />The dynamic between the police and dealers is set up in the next scene. Strike and his crew are outside a housing project doing their business when the cops roll up on them. They humiliate them by grabbing their faces and demanding to see underneath their tongues and then have them pull down their pants to look in their butt crack claiming they might be hiding drugs there. The police know they’re not going to find anything it’s just to let them know that the police can do almost anything to them anytime even though it won’t end the drugs.<br /><br />The cost of dealing is introduced next as it turns out Strike has ulcers because of the stress that dealing puts on him. He constantly has stomach pains.<br /><br />Later the movie focuses upon Rodney’s candy store where he also gives haircuts. There are all kinds of kids and teenagers there that he preaches to about how he’ll take care of them and put money in their pocket if they work for him. Strike does the same thing taking in a kid from the projects.<br /><br />Finally, there’s Officer Andre (Keith David). He stops by the projects Strike deals at to give a talk to him and the little kid Strike is trying to recruit. He gives speeches about how the kid needs to stop hanging around the dealers and how Strike needs to get out of drugs otherwise he’ll end up dead. He knows that arrests aren’t the answer so he’s trying to appeal to people’s hearts and minds. It’s an uphill battle but he’s not giving up.<br /><br />These are all themes of the film. One, the police aren’t fighting a war on drugs they’re just trying to exert power over black men. Second, the drug game is about black men like Rodney and Strike exploiting the younger generation. Third, Officer Andre is trying to play a counter father figure to Rodney. They both know the community is at stake with the dealers winning. Andre knows there’s a lack of positive African American male role models and he’s trying to be that.<br /><br />The movie comes to focus upon Strike. He’s smart and the ulcer is a sign that he knows what he’s doing is wrong and that it will eventually get to him. The question is whether he’ll get out of the game before it’s too late.<br /><br />This is one of Lee’s really good movies that usually gets overlooked for his more well known releases. It’s well worth watching.<br />C
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