Do the Right Thing
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Movie Reviews of Do the Right Thing
Movie Review: Look deep
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie goes beyond bigotry beyond dissatisifed human interaction.
As Mookie sits with his head in his hands at the end of the movie wondering what he has brought upon his own community, his own people, you know that this movie will fool only the people who refuse or are unable to look deeper in what troubles our world.
Lee's admission that blacks are the ones not opening the stores in the community, causing the trouble in the Italian owned pizza parlor, is the focal point of this minor masterpiece.
He allows both sides of the story to be told and at least in the movie doesnt apologize for that.
And I only say "minor" masterpiece as to not confuse that observation with his masterpiece of movie making, Malcolm X.
When first viewing the movie you'll take sides but of course.
If you side with the black pov you'll cheer Radio Racheem and his militant style.
And if you take the white pov you'll know the pizza guys are in the right.
BUT!!!, if you value honesty above prejudice you'll have a meeting of (your) mind(s) and KNOW what and where the truth lies.
No matter that Mr. Lee might have to play the race game when circulating throughout life/the streets, his thought is forever on celluoid/dvd and cant be changed or re/mis interpeted.
Do the Right Thing ... indeed mo fo!!!!
Movie Review: I LOVE this movie!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I think this is a great movie, for the simple fact that Spike Lee is the best producer that I've seen that cares to take a real life situation and put it into play. By doing this, he is bringing non-African Americans into our life and he is allowing them to see things the way we see them. His productions are inciteful and inspirational. His other movies that I am a fan of are "School Daze" and "Jungle Fever". "School Daze" is about the ongoing feud between light-skinned blacks and dark-skinned blacks at a college during the 1980's. "Jungle Fever" is about interracial dating and interracial couples in the workplace in New York. "Do the right thing" is about the feuding between Italian-Americans and African-Americans in an urban neighborhood in Bedstuy, New York. This movie taught me a lot about ignorance and what it means exactly to be racist. I've had a better understanding of the subject growing up after I saw this movie. Spike Lee and John Singleton are two producers that tell things just the way they are in normal life. And they should be praised for that.Movie Review: Spike Lee always does the right thing!
Summary: 5 Stars
1989's acclaimed and controversal film about racism in a slum town really hit me. I was very impressed at how well directed it was. Spike Lee has always swept me off my feet with his brilliance, creativity and reality. He always has a great cast, fun lines and brilliant style. He is also as good an actor in this as well as others (including Jungle Fever and Malcom X) as he is a director and writer. Danny Aiello gave a great performance, as did John Tutorro. Samuel L. Jackson had a small but fun part as well. All in all I really enjoyed Do the Right Thing. However, I do not fully agree with all of Spike Lee's views on racism. While this was a phenominal film about racism, it seemed to overfavor the racist black people a lot, whereas ANY racism is wrong. Other than that though, this was a great film. This is certainly something that would probably offend many people. Its R rating reflects extreme racist content including violence, pervasive strong language and brief nudity.Movie Review: Do the Right Thing
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, if you are going to understand this movie, you need to remember the title, "Do the Right Thing." How do you know what the right thing is? Which character says the title line? The Mayor. That's your clue. Is the Mayor on the side of violence? No. The Mayor stands with the Italians when his neighbors are about to burn down the pizzeria. The Mayor does, as is his wont, the right thing (i.e. he stands against the mob). Admittedly, the Italians are yahoos, but the message of the movie is: even if they are yahoos, its wrong to burn their house down! People who don't understand this don't know how to watch a movie properly. This aside, I also really enjoyed the Rosie Perez dance sequence at the beginning of the movie. Ozzie Davis is the aircraft carrier of this movie and Spike's character attracts attention away from the central message of the movie so that it message is indirect and, in some cases, completely overlooked.Movie Review: Do The Right Thing
Summary: 5 Stars
Spike Lee's best film. Racism still exists and this film deals with racial tension in New York. This film should have been called 'The Difference a Day Makes'. A lot of negative things occur within people and their views of people of other races all in a 24-hour period (1 day). I am amazed that after this film was made, people still haven't woke the hell up. It seems like, in most of Spike's films, he paints White people as being gullible, mindless, clueless and rhetoric; Black people as the tired-of-being-stepped-on, jealous & angry generation; Asian people as the made-to-look-ridiculous type; and Hispanics...dunno. I see why most people don't like Spike because in almost every movie, he has the same directorial skills, color hues (thanks to Ernest Dickerson), and people are always arguing at eachother in his films. Most of his films are just...a big motion picture of arguments that last for 2+++ hours!