Jungle Fever
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Movie Reviews of Jungle Fever
Movie Review: Spike Lee Film With Interesting Episodes
Summary: 3 Stars
This film is good and I recommend it but there is too much and the film is too cluttered to be a great film. Spike Lee puts everything including the kitchen sink in the film. There is a crack head brother who gets killed like Marvin Gaye. An educated son who is married to a woman who is half black, half white and identifies herself as black and has an affair with a white woman whose Italian working class relatives harass her for it. The reaction to the black/white affair is very harsh. While it may have been true for working class Italians and blacks in NYC, I still wonder. Seems that people are a lot more comfortable with it than they used to be. The plight of black people are also a strong basis for the film. Spike had several movies in this one movie and several good/great ones could have been made. He has a lot to say and is a great filmmaker.Movie Review: WHITE AND BLACK STEREOTYPE
Summary: 3 Stars
THE MOVIE WAS OK, BUT ONE THING MAKES ME UPSET...
AGAIN ITALIANS ARE LOOKED UPON AS WHITE RACE.....IM HALF ITALIAN...ITALIAN FROM THE BOOT NON ITALIAN AMERICAN, I WAS BORN IN NAPLES ITALY , AND I KNOW THAT ITALIANS ARE NOT CAUCASIAN...HOW DO WE HAVE TO PUT END TO THIS THING...EVEN ITALIAN AMERICANS FORGOT THEIR ROOTS.....WE HAD SPANISH DOMINATION AND WE HAVE ARAB AND AFRICAN BLOOD AS WELL...
ITS FACTS
Movie Review: racism dumbed down for the masses
Summary: 2 Stars
spike lee is an interesting director, says a lot of good things, and speaks his mind in the press.
hwever, this movie seems really dull and watered down.
the central relationship between snipes and the white woman has no sparks at all. a totally unbelievable pairing. i couldn't understand why snipes would cheat on his wife. it's not clear what his motives are. her motives...something, anything better or more exciting than her banal existence....are much clearer. is snipes bored in his marriage, or is he just very belated in trying to fulfill the age old "fantasy" of black males to get with a white woman? i couldn't tell you, because it's not at all clear to me. the moral of the movie- "idealism is ok, but it can never really work out" is off base, because it can't work out anyway, black or white....when a married guy sneaks around on his wife...whom he is apparently still in love with.
all the issues portrayed in the movie are real and need to be discussed in film, but i was bummed out by the some of ways which they were brought forth. a big one for me is his targeting of racist italians. in this movie it's the poor working class italians that are the problem? racism is very common in ALL low income areas. the group that spike targets here...brooklyn "bodda-bing-bodda boom" italians...seems silly. sure some of those guys are racist, but they are not causing the majority of problems in the US of A...rather the herded-off-in-the-suburbs middle class white people, this subtle yet ultra powerful form of racism...i see this as the real problem, not the (relatvely speaking) small old school (and quickly dying out) ethnic populations of the buroughs. why didn't spike choose middle class racism as his subject matter? was it too nuanced to portray on film? how about this: a suburban white intern who falls in with her well to do black boss...her supposedly "liberal" white family totally disapproves. the economics of the pairing would ordinarily be cause for approval, but the ultimate issue is the color of skin. NOW THAT is way more on the mark. who cares about lower class "bodda-bing-bodda-boom" italian racists? (i'm italian btw) they have no political power in america, they don't sway votes and they don't give scholarships and jobs to white people that should go to black people. did spike get beat up by some some "wiseguys" as a teen or something?
it just seems like a real misfire by spike, and not genuine. another movie about racism "higher learning", showed racism on a college campus by nazi skinheads from idaho! come on! there are many way more acute examples of racism on a college campus. who takes a skinhead seriously? however, a rich white dean of a school may well have some racist ideas in his mind. THAT wasn't shown in the movie. again, it seems like these directors are dumbing down the issue for the audience or something. i don't know why they would squander the chance to actually SHOW how racism pervades our society...but instead show a sensationalist easy to pick on minority group who has old school racist ideas.
incidentally, i thought "bamboozled" was great. really cuts the chase about the racism in the entertainment industry and shows how the audiences love stuff that panders to their most ignorant notions. "bamboozled" is way more ambitious and hard hitting. more enjoyable all around too.
so why does spike insult our intelligence with "jungle fever?"
james baldwin's book "another country" deals with this subject with a lot a depth and examines many angles. check that out instead of this one.
Movie Review: Spike's Racial Fever
Summary: 2 Stars
Spike has said in an interview that when he sees an interracial couple that he wants to throws darts at them. After seeing part of this terrible, cluttered film on cable--I can see where he's coming from. I particularly felt sorry for the 2 main actors in the film, Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra, their parts were terribly written resulting in caricatures. The only saving grace of this movie was Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal as Gator, Snipes drug addict brother. That's the only reason I gave this film an extra star because if he wasn't in it, this film would be totally unwatchable!! Lee has a tin ear for dialogue maybe he should study David Mamet or Elmore Leonard on that aspect. There was an opportunity in the film also to comment positively on the inter-racial aspect of romance with the subplot involving John Turturro's infatuation with a Black female in the neighborhood but again Spike blew that aspect to bits on that. And as far a director of actors, he allowed the great Anthony Quinn to over-act!! So along with "Mo Better Blues", I've been unable to watch a Spike Lee film in its entirety with the exception of perhaps "Malcolm X", "Clockers" & "The 25th Hour" (Edward Norton) but those films weren't written by Spike!! So if you really serious about cinema, check out better directors like Bill Duke (Hoodlum), John Singleton (4Brothers, Shaft) or Carl Franklin (One False Move, Devil in Blue Dress, One True Thing). These brothers have it, Spike, no way Jose!!Movie Review: way to scary and crazy!
Summary: 1 Stars
Look I have seen some people diapprove of interracial relationships but not like this. I mean in this film the way Spike lee show's people being against these two people being together is as if's the End of the world or someting. And I remember the first time I saw this movie it was on TV But I sure as Hell didn'd buy it so I decided to bowor it from the library and there was some seens that was to strong for me to watch. Please Take my advice if you want to see a movie about interracial relationships then please don't buy this garbage. Instead get the movie called Far from heaven now that movie makes more sense. And let me tell I am so aganist Racism as a matter of fact I'm a Bible Believing Christian and Racism goes against my christian beliefs. And I can tell this that the Day is coming when we are all going to meet God on Judgment Day and People will be in either Heaven or Hell Which place we you end up in will depend on the decision you make about the lor Jesus Christ. I can tell you another thing their will be no such thing as Segregation of the races in Heaven or Hell. So you now have a Choich to make If you accept the lord Jesus christ as your lord and Savior and turn away from your sins and let him be the lord of your life then you will be saved if not then you will spend Eternity in Hell.