Five Star
Primo takes it upon himself to reevaluate the youthful boy at the code of the streets -- one based on honor and upheld by fear after John father is struck with a stray bullet. An associate of the Bloods considering that the age of twelve--both in the film as well as the truth is --that the streets of Brooklyn has known. While John questions whether to enter to this very life, Primo has to decide whether to leave it all behind as he attempts to become a husband and dad. Place throughout those nyc summertime at which the heat seems to encase all, Five Star plunges in to gang culture with intensity. Director Keith Miller finds the lifestyles of these two men having a quiet yet pointed distance, carefully eschewing worn clichés through its unflinching focus. Distinctions between fiction and real life remain ambiguous, letting both of these men's narrative to resonate beyond the streets, while they face the question of what this means for a person.
Released: 2014-04-17
Genre:
Drama