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Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Thanks to Spike Lee's direction, Da 5 Bloods is one of 2020’s most visually arresting films. It also features one of the year’s best performances. This film has a lot to say. It’s bold, packed with tension, and rich drama.

During the war, Vietnam soldiers Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) discovered a locker of U.S. gold meant for the Lahu people. In present day, they return. Officially, to recover the body of the leader of the "Bloods", "Stormin'" Norman (Chadwick Boseman). They're also planning on smuggling the recovered gold home. As they approach their destination, old war wounds reopen and the poisonous draw of that treasure begins to tear them apart.

Generally, a 150 minute+ running time is excessive. Here, it’s necessary. There is so much to digest in this film you need those minutes to process it all. The very premise fills you with uncertainty. The gold the remaining Bloods are after isn't theirs. Then again, they’ve "earned" it. Even during the war, the Viet Cong used news reports and facts to make Black soldiers question their place in the conflict. The men we follow suffered greatly during the war, particularly Paul. His complex relationship with his son, David (Jonathan Majors), proves it. For all these men, Vietnam never ended and their government failed to take care of them once they returned home. Norman made them promise they would use the money to make a difference.

You expect a certain political standpoint from Spike Lee and it’s there… but the film is not “us and them”. To his friends’ shock and disappointment, Paul strolls into Vietnam with a red “Make America Great Again” hat. It perfectly summarizes the complexity of this group.

We've got a great story. In it are rich characters. These people feel real. They joke around, prove themselves the best of friends, expose their vulnerabilities... and don’t always do what you expect them to. You have no idea where the story is going but you’ve got a bad feeling. Rarely does a treasure trove prove to be the salvation men expect.

Da 5 Bloods is then elevated to the next level by the way Spike Lee tells this story by his co-writers Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, and Kevin Willmott. When the Bloods look at a photo, the film cuts to a shot of just that photo. When they remember Norman, it’s done as if this is a documentary. For a moment, you forget this is fiction. Then, we have the flashback sequences. There aren’t enough of them to make Chadwick Boseman’s performance more than a cameo but the way they’re presented I’ve never seen before. Rather than cast men who look like young versions of Lindo, Majors, Peters, or Lewis, they play themselves in these memories of the past. Why not? When you reminisce, the events you saw are from the same point of view as today. The difference in aspect ratio emphasizes these are memories, not literal trips through time. The editing, camerawork, music, casting, every aspect of filmmaking amplifies the film’s voice in a truly inspired way.

Da 5 Bloods juggles many complicated ideas and freshly presents them. Partly, it's because we haven’t seen what it was like to be a Black soldier in Vietnam, and certainly not within the context of 2020. It’s also a great story about greed and trauma with a fantastic cast. After it's over, I recommend you stay until the end of the credits to see a bonus “scene” showing the cast and crew. It isn’t essential in the same way a nugget that teases the next Marvel movie but it does give you a nice breather after all this heavy stuff. (January 31, 2021)

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Review : Da 5 Bloods (2020)

In Netflix’s ever-continuing quest to take over the world of film, they made a number of bold, attention-capturing deals with A-list, legendary talent.  One of the names that immediately jumped out at me was Spike Lee, and when his first film under the deal, Da 5 Bloods, was announced, I was immediately interested.  While it wouldn’t be his first film centered around war, it would be his first foray into the world of Vietnam, a conflict that has fascinated me since my youth.  With 2020 wrapping up, I decided it was time to play catch-up in terms of my film viewing, and Da 5 Bloods was at the top of my list. 

Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis) and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) are former members of Da 5 Bloods, a squad of Black US 1st Infantry Division soldiers that included their fallen comrade, “Stormin’” Norman (Chadwick Boseman).  The surviving members return to Ho Chi Minh City decades later and enlist the help of Vietnamese jungle guide Vinh (Johnny Trí Nguyễn) to help recover Norman’s body and return it home.  In reality, however, the Bloods have returned to Vietnam for a different reason : to recover and smuggle a large sum of gold discovered in a CIA plane crash during a tour of duty.  The plan was to recover the gold, which was buried near Norman’s body, and get it smuggled out of the country with the help of Desroche (Jean Reno), a French businessman connected to Otis’ former Vietnamese lover, Tiên (Lê Y Lan).  Plans are complicated when Paul’s son David (Jonathan Majors) uncovers the secret of the gold and makes a surprise trip to Vietnam to force his way into the scheme.  With literal and emotional baggage in tow, the group wanders into the jungle to hopefully recover their fallen brother and the stolen gold.

I would certainly hate to disparage Spike Lee in any way, shape or form, but it’s no secret that his films of the last decade or so have been the recipient of mixed to negative reviews.  Da 5 Bloods not only marks a return to form, but in many ways, it shows a new sense of life and love for creativity, not to mention an evolution in his long-established style.  Lee has always been a very immersive filmmaker, and the intensity of a subject matter like Vietnam gives him a rich set of ingredients to mix and match, resulting in some of the most wonderfully nuanced subtext he has ever presented in his career.  Aspects of family strife and secrets, political stances as a front for personal turmoil, war as a mechanism for fracturing human connection and growth, capitalism as a moral line drawn in the sand and so much more is laid out in the course of the narrative, and where another filmmaker (and even at a point in his career, Lee himself) would have presented a jumbled and schizophrenic mish-mash of these ideas, Lee finds a wonderful balance and harmony between how all of these elements are not only examined, but how they impact one another and the actions of the characters we are following.

Lee has always been strong in the realm of including educational aspects into his film, and while many of his inclusions in this film come off as footnotes or parentheticals that pop off of main conversations, it works in a very weird way.  It is not necessarily even jarring when Lee flashes to footage or images depicting the historical information espoused by the characters.  It is also surprising (and somewhat refreshing) that a film about the Black experience in Vietman does not contain any White American soldiers, as many films of this nature tend to do.  The main participants of the events presented to us are Black Americans, the Vietnamese and the French, with Paul Walter Hauser’s portrayal of Simon being the lone exception.

It’s the technical aspects of this film where Lee shows the largest growth.  The way that Lee alternates between aspect ratios is a subtle but immediate indicator of both era and mind-state to the viewer, with frame serving as Vietnam flashbacks, extreme scope as the modern world of Ho Chi Minh City, and widescreen engulfing the entire frame with the Vietnamese jungle.  There are moments of shocking and graphic violence connected to the war aspects of this film, and they are presented with enough flare to rock our sense of comfort, but not so gratuitously that it shocks us out of our connection to the story.  The soundtrack is extremely strong, with the deep dives into Marvin Gaye’s eternal classic album What’s Going On? helping to perfectly punctuate most every emotional and historical beat presented.  The colors of Ho Chi Minh City are rich, deeply contrasted and pop out of the screen to an almost hypnotic measure, which makes the jolting jumps to the jungle much punchier.  The cinematography, stunt work on the battle aspects and the gunplay are all stellar, with professional and assured editing driving the experience home.

Sadly, Da 5 Bloods would be the last film released prior to the sudden and shocking death of Chadwick Boseman from complications connected to colon cancer.  Boseman continued acting right up until his death (with Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom posthumously serving as the final film of his career), and while his performance in Da 5 Bloods is powerful, hindsight allows us to see that he was certainly deep in the grips of his battle with his health.  Despite this massive obstacle, his role served as the central grounding force of the film, with all of the comradery, education and drive originating from his presence within the narrative.  His calm and focused intensity offset the rage and emotion of his fellow Bloods, while his heart and soul helped inspire them in turn.  For one of his final roles, Boseman could not have picked a more appropriate and inspiring presence to occupy the screen with.  

Delroy Lindo does some powerful work in this film by bringing the sense of a man with massive demons that haunt him and feeding us a certain sense of what those demons may entail, only to turn all that we think we know on its head as he comes undone.  The cast of Jonathan Majors as his son is brilliant, as his similar build and unique profile match the intensity that is presented (both parallel to and in contrast of) Lindo.  Clarke Peters carries the weight of time with him, allowing himself to be an open receptor to all that life brings his way, and very much acting as an audience surrogate immersed into a harrowing situation while attempting to keep an anchor that tethers him to the ‘world’.  Norm Lewis gives a nuance, complex performance full of optimism that masks deep pain, while Isiah Whitlock Jr. approaches things with an ‘it is what it is’ attitude.  Johnny Trí Nguyễn and Mélanie Thierry present voices of reason and alternative points of view, while Paul Walter Hauser and Jasper Pääkkönen bring voices of doubt and resentment to the table in alternate extremes.  Jean Reno and his opportunistic, self-gratifying approach play an odd mirror of Donald Trump in an absurdist manner (in my opinion).  Lê Y Lan and Sandy Hương Phạm represent light emerging from a darkness of the past, and bring a wonderful sense of loving and support to a film that thrives on fractured dynamics.  Veronica Ngo is memorable as Hanoi Hannah as she directly voices the reasons why Black troops struggle in the face of war while also echoing the infamous performance of Lynne Thigpen in The Warriors. 

With 2020 being such an odd year in terms of the way film has been presented to us, it’s been an interesting process in trying to wrap up the year.  One thing I do know for sure, despite whether I continue my practice of ranking the top films of the year or simply decide to just group films in terms of quality, Da 5 Bloods will stand near the top regardless.  Hopefully it can garner Lee another late career award in 2021, but whether or not it manages to make that happen, I am almost certain that it will stand as a testament to the longevity and talent of Spike Lee. 

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