George and his friends grow up in a poor suburb where people must struggle for their life. One day, A tragedy occurs when one of George's friends becomes murderer and they make a decision to hide the body.
Oh, you could analyze and debate and dissect the individual vignettes to smithereens, which is what makes it literary, I 'spect. But that would be too much like homework.
It's possible to keep one's feet on the ground and still appreciate the film's quiet verbal and visual poetry.
New York Magazine/Vulture
September 26, 2002
A gracious sleepwalk of a movie that could have used a firmer strut.
TV Guide
July 18, 2007
Stylized to the point of poetry, David Gordon Green's impressive debut fuses the lyricism of Terence Malick with Harmony Korine's willingness to poke around the garbage-strewn landscape of the American underclass.
George Washington is a mood piece first, and its triumph is in bottling up the intense feeling of early adolescence, and watching how tragedy transforms it.
