Five Star
After John father is struck with a bullet, then Primo takes it upon himself to reevaluate the youthful boy at the code of these streets--just one based on honor and maintained by fear. A member of the Bloods since age twelve--both in reality as well as in the film --that the streets of Brooklyn are Primo has known. Primo has to decide whether to leave it as he attempts to become a better husband and daddy while John questions whether or not to enter into this lifetime. Place throughout those New York summertime where the stifling heat seems to encase all, five-star plunges in to group culture. Director Keith Miller observes the lives of these two men using a space that is silent yet pointed eschewing worn clichés by its focus. Distinctions between fiction and real life remain ambiguous, letting the narrative of these two men to resonate beyond the streets, because they face the wonder of what it means to be a man.
Released: 2014-04-17
Genre:
Drama