David Simon, the writer director of the acclaimed "The Wire" and "Crash" that goes deeper into the conundrum of race based conflicts in America than anyone, is appearing in interviews describing his latest work, a six part series that recounts the integration of housing in Yonkers N.Y. in the late 1990s.
Here's the Vanity Fair review, that includes this synopsis,
The series follows ambitious young city councilman Nick Wasicsko, a middle-class cop turned lawyer, who found himself, for a brief but tumultuous time in the late 1980s, at the center of a citywide fight over low-income and affordable housing. A federal judge had ruled that Yonkers had to build a certain amount of housing units, spread evenly across the city, not just in black neighborhoods, which would effectively have created more ghettos
I've read several other reviews. They all comment on the indeterminate depiction of the Mayor, how his real feelings are not portrayed.
Actually, the ending came after the period that the film covered, in a way that affected me strongly. Those who think the quest for political power is a game that a player wants to win, don't quite get what it can mean to some. It so happens that for years I have used the example of Nick Wasicsko, without even using his name, just as to illustrate what the vulnerability, the investment of one's heart and soul in a cause, the trust that people want to bestow on a political leader, and the disappointment, the inevitable letting down of those who believed that you were more than mortal.
David Simon does not bring up what I am adumbrating, and reviewers aren't either. To those who watch this series, remember this is real, a dramatic reenactment of actual people including their own words when possible. This is the brilliance of the title, as the appellation of "hero" never inheres in the individual, but in society's ideals. To dare to bask in its adulation is to risk losing it, and enduring the fall from being revered to becoming ... nothing.
This dramatization is not meant to be entertainment, but something much more.