There’s a scene in “All Day and a Night” that cuts you to the quick. Jahkor Lincoln (Ashton Sanders), a freelance thug and aspiring rapper in Oakland, CA., who wears a permanent hot gla…
), a freelance thug and aspiring rapper in Oakland, CA., who wears a permanent hot glare of suspicion, is seated in the living room of a gang leader named Big Stunna . Jahkor is trying to play up to a local-hood-turned-celebrity-rapper, Thug’ish Trex , who in his long gold chain and Legend track suit carries himself like a roly-poly king. He holds the power of someone who can hook a brother up, so when he says “put that shit on,” it’s a rare opportunity.
Jahkor wants to use rap to box his way out, yet “All Day and a Night” couldn’t be further in tone from a movie like “Hustle & Flow” . There’s no vestige of romanticism here, no movie-ish salvation. “All Day and a Night” is made with empathy and skill, but it’s as clear-eyed and remorseless as a news report.
“All Day and a Night” opens with Jahkor executing a drug dealer, then being sent to prison. We see how he negotiates existence behind bars, but the film then jumps back into his life. It shows us the journey of haphazard tragedy and violence that got him here, and Ashton Sanders brings us close to him.
Jeffrey Wright plays Jahkor’s father, JD, who we see in flashback as a freebase-head in a do-rag who treats his wife and son like hostile criminals. Yet Wright is too great an actor to make this anything less than a rounded portrayal. JD’s viciousness is scary . He’s setting up Jahkor to perpetuate the legacy of violence, yet there are glimpses of the love he has for his son. The two men meet up again in prison, at which point Wright makes JD a declawed lion.
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