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A Concise Review Of The Movie Fresh
Writer director Boaz Yakin has had an interesting career in Hollywood. He’s always been, primarily, a write for hire. He has had very few personal projects, mainly sticking to studio work like Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. Most of his work is… Let’s be honest, mediocre and forgettable. It’s not his fault, it’s just that these are the dull projects they give him to work with. So what is one of his movies doing on a review labeled “must see movie downloads”?
Yakin wrote and directed the film after going into exile for some years. He was disillusioned with all the crummy studio work he was getting, all the uninspired, formulaic movies that were really just being made to sell more tickets and put more money in the studio exec’s pockets. He decided to leave Hollywood and not to come back until he had something to say. Fresh, then, is certainly saying something.
The movie is named for the titular hero, Fresh, a young boy who works as a drug mule for various dealers around town. Two of which are at war with one another. So how does he keep his head above water when he would certainly be killed if one boss found out about the other? Well the twenty to fifty dollars he makes per run, he hides it in a coffee can by the railroad tracks and… After a couple years of running drugs every day for twenty to fifty bucks a run… That adds up, and the things you can do with that money if you’re smart…
Fresh spends one afternoon a week learning to play chess from his father, who is estranged from the rest of the family. These scenes are something like the Greek chorus scenes of the film, with Fresh reflecting on what’s been happening and contemplating his next move.
Think of it as Fistful of Dollars set in the ghetto. When a girl Fresh has a crush on, as well as a childhood friend, are murdered in a random shooting by one of the drug dealers he works for, Fresh hatches a plan to take revenge on all of the pushers and scumbags he deals with on a daily basis, freeing himself and his family from the clutches of the drug dealers.
His plan is to basically take down all of the scumbags who have been controlling his life and free himself and his family from the clutches of drug dealers. The brilliant part of this plan is that, because he’s just a child, they never suspect a thing. He plays chess with them in real life, and it has to be seen whether or not he’ll come out on top.
The movie can be brutally violent and shocking, which drives home the reality of Fresh’s situation. The villains are truly menacing, especially the young thug who typically gives Fresh his payments and is in a perpetual state of planning to kill somebody. Fresh is a hero who manages to remain pure, knowing where he can compromise and where he cannot.
The movie is really unlike any other. We’ve seen movies where the hero schemes their way out of trouble, rather than fighting or using guns, but rarely do we see a movie where that hero is a ten year old boy, rarely do we see a film with a child hero in a violent situation without being a fantasy family film like Home Alone. Fresh is real, raw, frightening, and fascinating.
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