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Submitted by mastaweiss on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Do The Right Thing
Don't Let Hatred Reign KingÂ… Do the Right Thing.
Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee's third feature, is undoubtedly the most multifaceted and proficient of his career to date. It is a movie eventful with life, colorful and articulate, vivacious through music, and stirred with bigoted oppositions that progressively accrue in the scorching heat. It is a picture of a small neighborhood in New York destroyed by racism. Although the people seem to accept the situation of different ethnic groups living among them, the true hatred quickly surfaces and turns the story into a small community tragedy.
The most obvious example of hate runs unbridled throughout the middle and end of the film. It seems to pick up drastically when representatives of the different ethnic groups in the community use vulgar and prejudiced epithets concerning each other, an obvious display of hatred illustrating itself through spoken words and everyday thoughts. It was these sorts of words that were emitted at Sal's Famous Pizza that brought the suppressed feelings to the surface, leading to deadly violence.
The suppressed hatred is a quality held by almost everyone in the film. Mookie seemed to have buried it the most, only until it came to the very end where it looks as if subdued to the mob mentality. Towards the beginning of the movie, Mookie is witness to Buggin' Out, the radical black male, causing a commotion about there not being any black faces on the Wall of Fame. Buggin' Out confronts Sal and Mookie about it but Sal just throws him out and Mookie escorts him out. Buggin' Out is surprised at Mookie and basically accuses him of not being black. It gets you to think if Mookie acts that way to ensure himself having a job the following day, or if it really doesn't bother him.
Mookie seems to be a passive person, but as the movie progresses you see him to become a little more racially rebellious. You can actually pinpoint that adjust in attitude, the scene...
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