SPIKE LEE: 25th Hour (2002)
“Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends.”
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of underage attraction, racism, sexism, murder, drug use, prison, assault, violence.
It’s been so long since we had a proper movie fight on this show, and this week’s movie finally fit the bill. David thinks this is actually a poignant allegory for the tragic events of 9/11 and trying to reckon with those emotions. Diana thinks it’s a pointless movie that deserves to be thrown in the garbage. We both agree, though, that the script could have made some choices to help with the awkwardness of it all. Get ready for an all-out patented Movie Fight(TM) as we discuss 2022’s 25th Hour this week on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “Open Title” from the score to the movie 25th Hour, composed by Terence Blanchard. Copyright 2002 Hollywood Records, Inc. and Touchstone Pictures.
Excerpt taken from “Crazy (Acoustic)” written and performed by Seal. Copyright 1991, 2004 Warner Bros. Records Inc., WEA International Inc.
