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

In the nineties, Spike Lee switched his game up, going from being “the black Woody Allen”, to really exploring his own personal style. Between Clockers and He Got Game, he began exploring some of the same territory as Martin Scorsese, creating these gritty, urban films with a real sense of danger and focused on issues of family. He Got Game is one of Lee’s all time must download movies.

The story follows a young man named Jesus, yes, Jesus, not Hey-Zeus, but Jesus, as in Jesus Christ. As his father explains “What’s wrong with Jesus? It’s a Biblical name.” “Yeah no &*$# dad!” Jesus is a basketball prodigy being pursued by, well, pretty much everyone. Every college wants him, and they stop at nothing to try and lure him to their respective schools.

Jesus’ father, played by Denzel Washington, has been in prison for years, ever since he was convicted of involuntary slaughter after the accidental death of the mother during an altercation that turned physical, only for a second, but a second was all it took to destroy their family life together. Jesus has never forgiven his father for the mother’s death, and a primary focus of the film is… Whether or not he ever will.

The warden of the prison offers the father a deal: Get Jesus to attend the warden’s alma mater, and they’ll look at reducing the sentence.

For Jesus’ father, this isn’t just to get a reduced sentence, it’s about redemption and forgiveness. He wants his son’s love. The reduced sentence is only a side effect of what his real intent is… Although Jesus doesn’t see it that way. However, what school Jesus attends will serve as a symbolic affirmation of his forgiveness for his father, or lack thereof.

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.

The film is frightening and shocking at times, it’s moving, and it boasts a lot of emotional depth and truth. The film also carries some great music by Public Enemy, notably the title track, He Got Game. Since then, Spike Lee has reinvented himself again, creating more marketable, polished films. His newer movies are every bit as worthwhile as his previous work, but there’s a rawness, a realness to the era between Do the Right Thing and He Got Game that set him apart from all other filmmakers of his generation.

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