The soundtrack is mostly Cuban jazz, and immaculate. A funny, sexy, suspenseful, beautiful flick. Grosse Pointe Blank is about an assasin going to his ten-year highschool reunion. From reading a plot summary or the script you wouldn't guess how well most of the comedy works. Clockers is a Spike Lee flick.
Nothing is funny.
But everything is beautiful. We have tough cops, fatherly cops, cops on the take, drug dealers, drug bosses, and related family trying to live straight in the projects. There is a severe disconnect between motivations, outcomes, and legal culpability. This is complex stuff. We watched the rental video two nights in a row, and I tried unsuccessfully to pigeonhole the right and wrong.