The blockbusters will be postponed, the indie films in many cases will head straight to streaming. But even before the apple cart of movie distribution got tipped over, “Blue Story” had…
, and who spun the movie out of the short-story rap-video aesthetic he made into a YouTube sensation.,” an expanded version of one of his earliest efforts , made a splash in the U.K. when it opened there in 2019, and Paramount Pictures had planned to release it in the U.S. on March 20.
In its elegant grit and volatile vibe, “Blue Story” recalls the powerful inner-city tales that dotted the American film landscape of the early ’90s: John Singleton’s tough, tense, and moving “Boyz n the Hood” ; Ernest Dickerson’s combustible B-movie “Juice” ; the Hughes brothers’ crime-psychodrama-detonated-with-nihilism “Menace II Society” ; and Spike Lee’s great, emotionally epic, to-this-day underrated “Clockers” .
They’re on a higher ground that’s about to be yanked out from under them. Timmy is buddies with the moody Marco , and their older brothers are mired in old gang vendettas. The series of mishaps that turn Marco against Timmy are heartbreaking, because they’re so unnecessary. But that’s kind of the point: Once you’ve sworn your allegiance to the codes of violence, camaraderie takes a back seat. Timmy isn’t trying to hurt anyone, but he, his brother, and Leah get hurt. Real bad.
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