In this episode of the show we are touching base with Spike Lee again and this time we are taking on a double bill of Red Hook Summer and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Red Hook Summer functioning as a spiritual sequel to Do The Right Thing, how it's a dense sermon spanning gentrification, cultural homelessness of working class America, false prophets and the fallacy of American Dream and how it is the most personal film Spike Lee made since the late 90s. We also talk about how Da Sweet Blood of Jesus uses an existing genre movie to take the temperature of American upper classes, how Spike Lee uses the themes of vampirism to discuss greed and detachment and how this movie forms a duet with Red Hook Summer.
Host: Jakub Flasz
Featuring: Jak-Luke Sharp
Intro: Infraction - Cassette
Outro: Infraction - Daydream
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