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Summary: It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to always be at the center of the action.
Spike lee's Do the Right Thing is an entertaining but at the same time, very real and important look into the day of a neoghbourhood with heavy racial tensions. The original screenplay is one of the best I have seen in a while and the ensemble cast was really great. Spike lee's direction was gorgeous. Certainly a must see film for it's controversial subjects and how well and with how much care it was handled with.
Powerful story of minor tensions boiling over into violence, on one hot day. The characters are interesting and the story entertaining but the film doesn't attempt to examine the effects of such destructive anger or even if it was justified.
part of its charm is the fact that it makes so many people react so quickly. i like the way the pizza shops owner character was written (despite his repressed bigotry, he was still a decent man). spike lee writing himself into the part that boils the conflict brings it down a little though.
There's nothing new I can add to the discussion of this movie, but it was amazing fun to watch, and the last scenes are fascinating. I'm not sure I'll ever entirely know what I think.
Spike Lee constructs an intense, colorful, entertaining and funky film, and still manages to show some sensibility when it comes to conflict of races, thanks to the great ensemble cast (especially Turturro, Aiello and Ossie Davis as Da Mayor).
This film perhaps handles racism in the most mature way of any movie I've seen. There are no totally irredeemable characters and only a couple you really come away thinking ill of. Lee manages to make everyone seem like regular people and carefully crafts the events of the day to feel natural. Nothing feels forced like standard Hollywood anti-racism fair. Great cast, great camerawork, I can't say enough good things about this movie.
Yellow Vomit. Its the best way to describe this omg-its-a-film-with-a-message-that-we-are-rascist movie. This movie captures society in an intentionally upfront,exaggerated, and un-filmic way. Save yourself from this much needed social message because it exploits your ability to comprehend a moving picture by daring you to switch channels with its dull stereotype characters and even duller events in a saturated-yellow tone & shaky photography. The story takes u nowhere!
It's leagues better than nonsense like Crash but I just don't consider it all that enjoyable or brilliant. Truthfully, I quite dislike Spike Lee and find his movies obnoxious and dumb.
Maybe I lack the cultural context to fully appreciate this film, but I thought it was cartoony and full of needless detours. And it takes about as many risks as a PSA about seatbelts.