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3.5/4
Fight The Power!
Matthew Brady - wrote on 06/03/2020
Wake up! Wake up! Up you wake!"
I had this on my watch-list for quite a while now since I joined this site, because when it comes to movies labelled as classic are often the hardest for me to truly tackle, but with everything that's been going on recently, I thought the time is right to watch Spike Lee's masterpiece. I know logging this in isn't anything new with everyone else doing the same, but you also have to keep in mind the reasons why a movie that explores the struggles of American racism, police brutality, and racial stereotyping still hits close to our lives, especially 30 years after its release.
The hottest day of the year in the neighborhood of Brooklyn - where heat, frustration, and tension quickly rises up to the surface in extreme temperatures, where the intensity is …
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4/4
Nothing is ever so Black and White
SIngli6 - wrote on 06/27/2017
Do The Right Thing remains one of the best examinations of American racial politics. Its dialectical style, especially its subversion of political melodrama archetypes (the sympathetic minority victim, the brutal racist, etc.), intend not to manipulate audiences into feeling pity for black people but to get them to think about why these humans of both races, with all their flaws and prejudices, are the way they are.
As the film ends with two juxtaposed quotations from MLK and Malcolm X on the ethics of violent residence to oppressive regimes, we are left to wonder, with all that we have seen and heard, how we can respect each other as human beings without compromising our autonomy. Such a query should be so simple, but the world keeps making it so complicated.
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Nachbarschaft
cinegeek.de - wrote on 07/21/2016
Our Daily Free Stream: Spike Lee - Do The Right Thing. Eine Brooklyn Reihe. - Nur ganz wenige Filme bleiben hängen! Nur ganz, ganz wenige Filme dringen wirklich ins Innerste vor! Als ich mir zum ersten Mal Do The Right Thing von Spike Lee im Videodrom auf VHS auslieh, war ich zu Tränen gerührt! Gleich zu Beginn der Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo stand fest: Do The Right Thing muss ab Tag 1 im Laden verfügbar sein! Spike Lee hatte für mich das Unmögliche geschafft: Ein Film über Rassismus, der Empathie zu allen seinen Figuren aufbaut. Er rattert nicht einfach die altbekannten Argumente herunter; er entscheidet sich nicht einmal für eine Seite. Lee blickt traurig auf dieses Ding, dass wir Rassismus nennen und das scheinbar so tief in jeder Gesellschaft verwurzelt ist. Vielleicht sogar …
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4/4
Do the Right Thing review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 09/02/2011
"Hope the block is still standing...We're still standing." A story of different characters such as Mookie (Spike Lee), Sal (Danny Aiello), Vito (Richard Edson), Pino (John Turturro), Tina (Rosie Perez), Señor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson) and many more. Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito) had a concern with the “wall of fame” in Sal’s Famous Pizza joint since there were no successful black individuals included. Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) is appalled with the treatment of other people so he joins Buggin’ Out in protesting the restaurant. One of many great lines: Radio Raheem - “Let me tell you the story of right hand-left hand. It's a tale of good and evil....Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt. He's down. Left-Hand Hate KO-ed by Love.” and "Yo! Hold up! Time …
