wa’ s psychological thriller explores social inequality by telling the story ealthy industrialist whose son has been kidnapped— or so he believes. el Washington plays the role of the wealthy patriarch, with the differthat here, the man is a music producer with a faltering career. Building eir past collaborations, Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are back tor some years after their last film, now closer than ever.
o’ Better Blues( 1990), the actor played the role of a jazz musician, in lm X( 1992), he carried the movie from start to finish, and in He Got( 1998), he gave a brilliant performance as a jaded former professionketball player. Alongside him in Highest 2 Lowest is the actor Jeffrey ht and the famous rapper A $ AP Rocky— under his own name, Rakim rs— who has already made a name for himself as an actor in Zoolander 16) and Monster( 2018).
ighest 2 Lowest, the crime thriller shot in New York between the upscale neighborhoods along the East River and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, marks Spike Lee’ s sixth film in the Selection, following Do the Right Thing, filmed in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood in Brooklyn( 1989), the activist film Jungle Fever( 1991), the dynamic Girl 6 as a Special Screening( 1996), the compilation film project Ten Minutes Older shown in Un Certain Regard( 2002), and BlacKkKlansman, a sharply militant film in 2018 …
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