Abstract
The movie ?Clockers' hit the theatres in 1995. The director, Spike Lee, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 20th 1957. His mother, a schoolteacher and father, a jazz musician, raised him in Brooklyn, New York City. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta before attending a graduate film program at the Tisch School of Arts. It is interesting to see that his movies often deal with urban and social issues. For instance, School Daze (1988) mainly took place in a "historically black school" whereas Do the Right Thing (the next year) was about racial issues in a Brooklyn neighborhood. Spike Lee is not only a talented director but has also produced different movies and is often eager to express his political views. The layout of the movie ?Clockers' is mostly in a black neighborhood of New York City where almost everyone that lives there is African American. The other ethnic groups are mostly outsiders and do not really belong to the studied community where the police inspectors are mainly white and the employers are Asian or Latin Americans.
