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- Asked who won the movie, the answer comes in three parts: number three is Rodrigo Preeto for a beautiful-looking movie.
- An interjection claims the answerer has come all the way around and now counts this among their favorite Spike Lee movies.
- Number two is Terrence Blanchard for the mournful, restrained score, compared with his sometimes too-bright, major-key scores in the vein of Aaron Copeland.
- Number one is Spike Lee, who directs with his hands in his pockets and focuses on the moral matter at hand, unlike other films where other interests compete, as in Inside Man.
- A second pick: Spike, hands down; nobody could have directed it better, though a 1990s-early-2000s Scorsese version (the Bringing Out the Dead era) would have been fascinating, and the director needs a real connection to New York.
- A suggestion: a first-time director, 25 to 33 years old, might have brought the rawness that the restraint keeps out; the restraint leaves the viewer a spectator like Norton and Pepper looking down on the dancers.