Never Die Alone

Never Die Alone is a film about a hard-boiled, stylish kingpin drug dealer, called King David played by rapper DMX, who returns to his hometown seeking redemption. King David's final moments were spent with Paul( David Arquette). Paul was an aspiring journalist who knew King David just for a couple of minutes. Funny thing is that King David left a big impact on Paul's life. King David, half preacher, half Satan, and typically street smart recorded the story of his life on an audiotape.
Never Die Alone is a good film depending on what side your looking at it. On an urban view you'll see it as a new light in a new direction. But to the “real world” its just plain stupidity. One quoted “its trashy, pretentious look at life”.
The direction of the film was to teach about crime in “the streets” and the consequences. Director Ernest R. Dickerson took the direction from Spike Lee's films She's Gotta Have It and Do the Right Thing which he did cinematography for.

There was a dark shadow throughout the whole film. Which is a key element to the film because it symbolizes the dark side of the urban world.

Throughout the film you can tell that Dickerson took the advantage of small cameras, because when you're watching the film you feel what the characters feel, you touch what the characters touch. Its like you're in the middle of what's going on.

Besides the enormous amount of profanity in the film, sounding was good. The language use in the urban world is vague, frank, and down right dirty, which was showed very well.

Costumes wasn't what I had expected to be because throughout the film actor DMX who played King David was in a suit coat, white shirt and jeans or was just plain naked.