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Lee film a commentary on racism
By Gerald White
Emerald Contributor
Spike Lee's newest film Do Thr Ktg/if
Thiiiff a( hieves a perfe< t balance tietween con
ventional narrative and pure visual technique
wliu I) i re,ties an excellent coherent work of
i inema
l.ee has not only used his film to make a
comment on the problems and consequences
_Movie Review
of racism, hut has also made a ver\ impres
sionistic work about a neighborhood and how
its inhabitants function as a whole
Bv doing this, the film avoids getting
hogged down in soi i.tl statement by allowing
more ac< essible qualities to play a large role in
the film
lee has stated in interviews that he does
not feel it is necessary to "straddle the fence"
between entertainment and substance He has
succeeded in not doing that, having made a
film ru h in both
The ai lion takes plai e in the small Hl'ook
Ivn neighborhood of Bedford Stuvvesant on
what is said to lie the hottest (lav of the year It
primarily involves Sal, the owner of a popular
pizzeria and his two sons Vito a bigot, and
I’ino. a good friend ol Mookie Mnokie is Sal s
delivery bov played bv Spike l.ee
Other important hut lesser characters in
ilude Mother Sister the local old maid. Da
Mayor, the lot al drunk and three guvs who sit
out in front of a bright red wall complaining
about almost everything, but primarily about a
ver\ "successful" Korean grocer
These characters do little to support the
larger theme of rac ism direc tly but serve to
create a ((immunity rub with personality and
diversity where the larger concepts can take
form
Several minor ( harac lets who do serve the
larger purpose of rac isrn include Radio Ka
heem. a silent martyr who blasts raps with
deep political undertones; Buggin' Out. a not
so silent radical who incites his friends to <n
lion when he feel his culture is being re
pressed. and Smiley, a mentally retarded man
who stands on the corner trying to sell what he
< hums to be the only pictures of Martin Luther
King and Malcom X together Lee uses Smiley
to create very powerful images expressing the
difficulty and frustration of the struggle be
tween the two leaders' views.
At the end of the film. Lee's camera
probes the madness of a rioting crowd of
mixed ethnic backgrounds (much like the
crowd in the previous image) as the local po
lice order the fire department to turn the hoses
on them
This contrast brings in the idea of relief
from the heat being .1 great unifier. In the first
image, the heat was concrete, but in the sec
ond image, the inhabitants of the film seek re
lief from the heat of rac lal suppression
Lee has been the subject of a great deal of
i riticism because many claim he advocates ra
cial violence through the film's message
I disagree1 with this idea and I feel that Lee
leaves the film open at the end He ends with
two quotes, one from King advocating non
violence and one from Malcom X staling that
violenc e in self-defence is not violence, rather
it is intelligence.
These two quotes illustrate the main con
flict in the film, instead of trying to solve it
Lee allows the audience to make it's own dec 1
sion about the correct course of action. His
violent sequences at the end of the film illus
Irate the’ destructive aspects of racism, rather
than advocating them
"Do the Right Thing" provides entertain
ment as well as substance It is stunning not
only for it's viewpoint and courage but it's
aesthetics as well The judges at the (lannes
festival failed to give this film any of it's 10
awards, and after a single viewing, one cannot
help but wonder what they were thinking
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