Title: Eating its own swelled head
Product review: I don't know much about the real "Summer of Sam"--I was only a year old. I DO, however, know that this film displays poor excuses for tension and meaning all by itself. The sections of the movie that focus on David Berkowitz are actually the good ones. It's the surrounding drama of the couples and their neighborhoods that really bombs. Director Spike Lee seems to be trying to shock the viewers into some sort of social awakening, but only manages to shock us into realizing what a bigoted movie this is. We are made to dislike EVERYone in the movie (even the characters we're probably supposed to sympathize with), and even that brilliant 'Who' song gets extremely annoying when it's played ten times in one movie. The only thing that kept me from giving "Summer Of Sam" one star was the fact that it did provide a bit of historical knowledge into that summer--something I found at least interesting.
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