25th Hour
It seemed more than appropriate to re-watch 2002's 25TH HOUR this year, the twenty fifth anniversary of the September 11th tragedy. A day that changed everyone and everything. To what degree is still being discovered all these years later. David Benioff based the screenplay on his novel, the latter of which was written before the attacks on the World Trade Center. Director Spike Lee felt it was right to include the aftermath of the attacks as a potent backdrop to this story of a drug dealer who has one last night of freedom before he heads off for a seven year prison sentence. Edward Norton is Monty Brogan, a good soul who drifted into crime earlier on, when he sold weed on a college campus. He later hooked up with Russian mobsters. Not the most reliable or honorable of colleagues, it turns out. Monty had become suspicious that his girlfriend Naturelle (Rosario Dawson) sold him out when DEA agents knew just where to search for drugs and ca...
