I don't usually do more serious/political videos. What did you all think of Da 5 Bloods?

*2 Fun Facts* The five "Bloods" that were seen throughout the movie in present day scenes were named Paul, Melvin, Otis, Eddie, and David. These are also the individual names of the five members of African American vocal group The Temptations. Their fallen "Blood", who was the leader and inspiration for the others during their days in the Vietnam War, was named Norman. Songwriter Norman Whitfield produced virtually all of The Temptations' music during their time at Motown Records during the 60s and 70s. The reason why the characters appear old during the war flashbacks is because it isn't a flashback but instead it is the characters remembering the past, therefore they remember the past with their current age. It also symbolizes that in their mind, they are still in Vietnam and will continue to be in Vietnam, never fully being able to move on from that war.

Chadwicks passing adds a new level to this film. Beautiful man, beautiful film. Rest In Power Chadwick Boseman

The chair Norman sits in as a replica made of palm of the chair Huey P Newton of the Black Panther Party sat in.

I gotta admit, this movie caught me off guard. I didn't expect it to have such a lasting impression on me

One thing I don't think all anyone talked about is that in the flash backs the 4 men was still played by the original actors not a younger version of them selves. That really Kept me engaged with the characters became more invested in them.

R.I.P Chadwick Boseman...You Finished The Race...Victory Lap. "It's not how you Start it's how you Finish"

As an Asian immigrant, I was highly touched by this movie and often seeing people being criticized by skin colours. Reminds me 'love is the way'. No matter what skin colours or race we are, we are all human beings

Also, Melvins character at the beginning says “ I ain’t jumping on no grenade”. But at the end, that’s his fate!

I love Spike Lee and I really like how he threw in some real history especially dealing with the Vietnam War and its complexity. As a kid I loved history and this story gives kids just the right amount to get them interested

Delroy Lindo is a legend. So underrated.

Thought it was pretty cool he named all the characters after the Temptations. I see you spike

Anyone else watched this movie to honor Chadwick Boseman?

Your video here actually made me go back and watch the ending with Paul's letter cause I thought I'd missed something, turns out I kind of did but it wasn't what I was looking for. I just noticed that the still shots they used in the movie outro Spike DID de-age the actors for the Vietnam pictures, which I found extremely interesting. I keep laughing at people who are pointing out it's silly he didnt do any de-aging, but that might now be my favourite part of the film. Dan Murrel did a review on this movie (so giving him credit) and made note of the choice of the different aspect ratios as well as why they weren't de-aged in the flashback scenes. The current day scenes in Vietnam are shot in the widescreen with black bars, but things move to a 16:9 ratio when they enter the jungle to make the viewer feel more immersed in it. That's pretty brilliant IMO. The cinematographer also did that Hemsworth action flick Extraction, which I've heard nothing but good things about too. As far as the de-aging, again I'm finding it hilarious to people point this out as a flaw now that I understand why it was a conscious choice. THEY NEVER LEFT VIETNAM. All those flashback scenes they appear as their older ages, because in their own minds/memories, they are STILL THERE. That is so damn heavy it pretty much blew my mind. The fact I just noticed he de-ages Delroy Lindo in a still shot of him in uniform, what a genius decision for them to not do it in the flashbacks.

Man this movie filled with such emotion I haven’t felt in years. Right on brother ✊🏿

When we see the end of the movie, it's like the spirit of Chadwick Boseman was transpiring through his character. Rest in Power Chadwick Boseman.

0735 "Madness... Madness" I took this as a nod to Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now... "The horror! The horror!"

“Five bloods don’t die, we multiply.”

Man this movie was incredible

I am very surprised that this is probably the first iconic Vietnam War movie that mentioned heavily about the French colonialism in Indochina. Especially the rubbers part, which was a very brutal chapter of exploitation in Vietnamese modern history. However, I don't quite find the part of any wealthy French person apologizing and doing charities in Vietnam as realistic. Most wealthy French elites who made a fortune from Indochina have been long dead or lost their fortunes during the Great Depression plus WWII. The only type of French who does charity works in Indochina is the French government through their charitable, cooperative organizations. Still, France barely did any reconciliation with Vietnam after losing Indochina. There have been notable French individuals who helped Vietnam, and I admired them for that. For example, Dr Alexander Yersin was revered as a saint in Vietnam for his charitable works towards the locals during French Indochina period. The help from French institutions is not great or non-existent. However, I found that, as a Vietnamese, the American private individuals along with private organizations and US government actually make more charitable efforts than the French. The US government spend at least more than a billion dollars on cleaning up the Agent Orange messes across Southern and Central Vietnam. The USAID is giving funds to upgrade Vietnamese economy and administration. Private US organizations, both Vietnamese Americans and American individuals, are doing charities in Vietnam. The US and Vietnam are making huge strides in relations and diplomacy. I feel the US will apologize Vietnam for the war as well as the American people for lying them about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that started the war. The time is not right yet. The US and Vietnam are getting there.

This was damn brilliant loved it

4:15 this reminds me of Huey P. Newton and that famous picture with him in the chair and the assault rifle and the African spear.

Such strong and vivid imagery throughout the film. Feels like exactly what we needed after the events of the past month. Another great Spike Lee joint!

Just watched this movie. This explains many themes with family issues, PTSD, greed, etc. One can interpret this movie in many ways to racism, guilty, forgiveness, etc. But in the end we are all humans and many of us suffer through a lot. To me I view this movie as a good movie to describe the problems that everyone suffers from the war torn countries, to minorities in many countries, and much more. To me good movie. This just my opinion about the movie. You can disagree or agree with me but I will not change my mind about my interpretation of this film. Thank you and have a wonderful day.

This movie is the most essential movie of 2020. This movie has layers. Spike lee best since mo betta

This was a great video. Thank you for making it!

Just watched this film in honor of Chadwick

Did you all catch that their names are the names of the Temptations?

Wonderful breakdown, kudos!

excellent review

This is the best Netflix movie I ever seen

Spike kept it all the way 💯 as always. Amazing job my brotha

This is a beautiful story.

Great video 🙏🏻

Great review

Great video! Interesting analysis on Otis’s last moments! I interpreted that scene of saying “Madness! Madness!” as an homage to Marlon Brando’s “The horror! The horror!” in Francis Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”!

This movie was great . Thank you for doing this video

I believe the madness line was a nod to Marlon Brando's line of "the horror the horror" in 'Apocalypse Now', right after he says it David calls to Otis "Godfather are you ok." And we all know who you think of when someone says Godfather in a film. The film is full of easter eggs like the 'Treasure Of The Sierra Madre' line "Badges we don't need no stinking badges"

I really appreciated how you explained this movie but what you didnt realized or maybe did but left out, was All the characters were named after the original Temptations🤩. Love Spike, he always keeps us thinking, he's so brilliant and black all day er day🥰

He explained the overall plot I just wish he would've gone into more detail about the movie because I know it's deeper than that. I personally enjoyed the movie and there were a few moments where I my eyes began to water up. Like in the scene where Marvin Gaye's What's Going On plays I couldn't help but to feel a certain sadness I feel when I turned on the news and seen another young man was shot and killed. That just hit home for me

The movie delivers, with a remarkable performance by Delroy Lindo, Spike lee make the film flows well in two and half hours, but sometimes asks for the viewers some patience with some scenes that really prepares the story of each character, Great view

This movie is a gem!! Great Saturday watch!

Nice catch on the maga hat I didn't realize that connection about the people that wore the hat

This was an incredible movie. It couldn't of came at any better of a time.

Loved this movie the ending was so sad 😭😭💔

Great video

Now that Chadwick is dead... This movie hits a whole lot harder. I almost feel like he knew he was gonna die not too long after filming and release of this film... RIP man. Fuck 2020.

Enjoyed this movie a lot truly a underrated Masterpiece 💯✊🏿

Legendary movie and definitely very underrated

VERY OVERLOOKED DETAIL: all the names of the characters are the original names of the 60's-70's Temptations Mo-town group (Paul,Otis,Eddie,Melvin ) "Norman" Whitfield was the name of the songwriter who wrote majority of the songs The Temptations performed during there hit making run.

a very well exposé...

You did well explaining this movie to us non Americans. It's a brilliant movie and I love how you made it clear to us!

THANK YOU!!!!

I really felt this movie. I dont really get down with his radical messages but shit his characters forced me to see a side to something I turn my head away from. I never ever ever felt intensity like i felt in this movie. Maybe because I am a vet or maybe its just I complete shed my own skin and embraced this movie for what it was. Idk maybe quarantine just has opened me up because i fucking miss movies but tbh spikes movie came at the perfect time for me....

A masterpiece

I liked the flick. Kinda saw the whole ending before it happened though. Including the landmine. I didn't think one chopper and platoon would be sent to recover that amount of gold.

good stuff

Thank you for this. I’m not a fan of Spike Lee or his movies because they always have really important messages in it that I don’t understand. Plus some of his movies have the oddest endings, like “See you Yesterday” and “ blackkklansman.” His movies are educational and well-shot but confuse me. This time I decided not to watch his movie and have someone summarize it for me instead. Thank you again, your video made sense and was easy to follow.

Can you please do Bacurau (2019)?

I just notice that the 4 protagonists in the film are named after members of the temptations 😳😳😳✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

A great movie (not "BlacKkKlansmen" by any stretch) with zeitgeist moment timing. The conversation is the biggest thing of all. Excellent explanation of the film in this video !

The "Madness Madness!" line is also a nod to Bridge on the River Kwai

Give Spike Lee a Grammy

I think the perfect metaphor behind the movie was the gold. This was them finally selling out to the REAL American dream, but boy was it heavy. BOY did it drive them apart. Did it make them nearly and in some cases literally kill each other. Just a bunch of shiny metal not even worth more than $20 million. Heavy. And it was why each and every single person who died in this movie died. Well, for the most part.

A highly charged movie replete with cool moves, deep emotions and depth of character: a beautifully excellent piece of cinema.

A deep - make you think movie. Glad Netflix had the for sight to show it. A must see movie for all.

Spike Lee my friend you've DONE IT AGAIN

A great movie...well done Spike Lee!

Delroy Linda didn’t want to play the character but i am glad he did. He was amazing

I swear i knew a surprise mine was coming as soon as young blood met the french girl, all that dread and anticipation and it still caught me off guard

Dark s3 episodes breakdown please

Damn I gotta watch this movie

Great movie i dont see how you can think other wise

I'm almost finished with da 5 bllods

If Eddie only knew where all that money went. It gets cut up and farmed out to other charities that many people wouldn’t support.

Power message.

this was an outstanding movie

Unity and community...only in the movies

Loved it Spike Lee

Now, I don't have to see the movie. I think this movie looks great!

This felt like a spike D joint frfr

Very nice.

This movie is beautiful

This movie showed me you can disagree with the message of a movie but still respect it as a great movie

This movie was good had me emotional :(

Spike Lee ❤🖤💚

When he says "The Madness" I instantly thought of quote from Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's novel. Never thought of the juxtaposition of the MAGA hat.

Paul did not deserve what happened to him, he was filled with hate and guilt. All that made him lash it out on his own blood

Yo but that resolutions change tho

I learned alot from this movie it was pretty graphic But one of spike Lee's better films although there were some spike lee things in the movie that I didn't like it was still good and I loved the conversation within the characters from the movie a very good watch

The movie could have been in Vietnam or america itself. Like for example when the boat goes the trainers tied to power lines

A very powerful movie but to start by showing newsreel footage of the Saigon execution without warning was horrifying and deeply disturbing. That one shot should give this movie an X rating.

All names of the Original Temptations. I just caught that.

Where da gold dat? Could be a leprechaun....

Rip heppo

Spike iz dope...

None of the 5 felt that the Lahu should have gotten the gold?

I LOVEEEEEEE SPIKE LEE!!! THIS MOVIE WAS EXCELLENT!!! 💪🏽👊🏾❤

Rip Chadwick Boseman

RIP Chadwick Boseman we LOve you