Spike Lee's Da5Bloods is overwhelming, dizzying, not easily consumed on first viewing, and essential Netflix
The hunt for buried gold neither ends well nor goes off without a hitch. The long road to reconciliation, whether with one’s trauma, family or national identity, is never without bumps. Glue these truths together with the weathering effects of institutional racism, add myriad references to history—American history, music history, film history—and you get Spike Lee’s, a classically styled Vietnam action picture made in his cinematic vision.
After opening with a montage of events comprising and figures speaking out against the Vietnam War, referred to predominantly as the American War throughout the rest of the movie, Lee introduces four of the five bloods: Otis , Paul , Eddie and Melvin , bonded Vietnam vets returned to Ho Chi Minh City ostensibly to find and recover the bones of their fallen squad leader, Norman .
There’s more, and even more than that, and more still, like the NGOs self-tasked with finding and disarming the Chekov’s landmines that still litter the jungle decades after the American War’s end, but “more” should be discovered by Lee’s audience, who will only be able to watchwould play like gangbusters on a big screen suited for its bloody gunfights and haunting emotional breakdowns, especially Paul’s, who, after succumbing to gold fever in the film’s second hour, goes off on a...
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