Comments on: Spike Lee Joint 2: Miracle at St. Anna (US/Italy 2008) https://globalfilmstudies.com/2009/09/20/spike-lee-joint-2-miracle-at-st-anna-usitaly-2008/ An introduction to global film for teachers and students Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Erich Martin Hicks https://globalfilmstudies.com/2009/09/20/spike-lee-joint-2-miracle-at-st-anna-usitaly-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:06:00 +0000 http://itpworld.wordpress.com/?p=2346#comment-679 How do you keep a people down? You ‘never’ let them ‘know’ their history.

The 7th Cavalry got their butts in a sling again after Little Big Horn, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn’t for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry. Read, and visit site/great history, rescueatpineridge.com

]]> By: omar ahmed https://globalfilmstudies.com/2009/09/20/spike-lee-joint-2-miracle-at-st-anna-usitaly-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:41:18 +0000 http://itpworld.wordpress.com/?p=2346#comment-678 I wasn’t too sure about the ending. It was very sentimental and slightly OTT. I think Spike Lee cleverly used the box office platform given to him by the unexpected worldwide success of ‘Inside Man’ so that he could get the finance he needed to make what was a much more personal project. Like you say, it does underline the impressive genre range Lee has acquired over the years and I do think it is unconventional in temrs of genre purely because here is a war film seen through the perspective of black soldiers. That itself is somewhat of a rarity in mainstream cinema. Equally like his best work, it is a fascinating watch in terms of the subversive ideological content on display. I hope this does get a UK cinema release.

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