A Must See Download Film: He Got Game, Spike Lee

Back in the nineties, Spike Lee really began evolving as a storyteller, exploring well beyond his era of being known as “the black Woody Allen”. He created something all his own in the 1990′s, and carved out a fascinating little niche for himself in the cinematic landscape. He Got Game is sort of his answer to Martin Scorsese’s gritty urban films. It comes down to a story of family, and is one of Lee’s all time must download movies.

The lead character is named Jesus. Jee-Zuss, not Hey-Seuss. It’s… It’s a Biblical name, you could say. Jesus is a basketball prodigy, one of the most promising the city has ever seen. The schools trying to court him are more than just aggressive. They seem this close to asking him “Who do you want killed to come play for us?” They really do just about go that far.

The other lead is Jesus’ father played by Denzel Washington. He’s been in prison for years for accidentally killing the mother. Jesus has never forgiven him for this. Whether he ever finds his son’s love again forms one of the film’s main two plots alongside that of Jesus’ being courted by the various athletic schools in the area.

This really kicks off when the warden offers him a deal: Get Jesus to join up with the warden’s alma mater, and they’ll see about the possibility of reducing the sentence or parole.

So the father is put out on the streets for a little while to try and convince his son. For the father, it’s not simply an assignment that will help him get a reduced sentence, rather, it’s a chance at redemption, a chance at forgiveness. It’s not really about the reduced sentence, it’s about finding his son’s love again. Not that his son sees it that way.

Along the way, the father falls in love with a street prostitute while Jesus tries to figure out the right thing to do, trying to avoid the temptation, the goodies the various schools dangle in front of him. They offer him everything, money, sex, drugs, fat wads of cash as bribes, to try and get him to choose their schools over all the others. He enjoys these bonuses, but ultimate maintains his composure and tries to make the right decision for himself and for his little sister.

The movie ends in a way that, while it doesn’t wrap everything up neatly in a little bow, it does deliver on an emotional level, and that’s where it really counts in the end.

At times, the film can be frightening and shocking, but in the end it’s all about feeling, it’s about character. It really is one of his most emotionally rich efforts to date. The soundtrack by Public Enemy isn’t bad, either. Spike Lee has since gone on to create more polished, more marketable films, but in the nineties he really created a unique niche for himself in the cinematic landscape.

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