Drawing On Human Nature, Phil Blattenberger’s POINT MAN Crosses Bullets And Bigotry
Debut director Phil Blattenberger’s Point Man goes hard and heavy on the dogs of war in an award-winning racially-charged military drama that draws enemy fire and friendly fire too close for comfort. The very first scene entails a black soldier on the front lines getting shot in the jungles of Vietnam after leading a platoon in a firefight. We then meet our trio of black soliders central to the narrative, engaged in a debate on the presumed chance positioning of negroes in a squad of soldiers. Among the three, Andre (Christopher Long) is insistent on the affirmative that the positioning of negroes are more methodical than some choose to believe. This serves as more of a side note to the rest of the story as it unfolds with Andre and fellow cohorts Joe (Chase Gutzman) and Felix (Marcus Bailey) joined by their platoon on a mission led by Lieutenant Sutter […]
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