Do the right thing response

Nicholas Hernandez

5 February 2018

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Do the Right Thing

After watching and reading the production film of spike lee’s “do the right thing” is takes viewers into the feeling of the racial tension at the time. The film captures the time during the 1980’s in Brooklyn, New York. Different cultural backgrounds and races living in the same neighborhood, portraying stereotypical characteristics. The movie takes place on one day, on the hottest day of the year which makes tensions much higher. The neighborhood Sal’s pizzeria begins to have altercations with a couple of the characters in the movie. Examples is when radio Raheem enters the store and blasts his radio to its max capacity, or the main part when bugging out asks why there is no African Americans on Sal’s wall of fame. This eventually comes to the end of the film where a riot strikes and the protagonist Mookie who is a delivery boy for Sal throws a garbage threw the stores window. There is also another scene when a white male steps on Buggin outs new Jordan’s, which he then questions him moments after in an aggressive tone.

Personally, this was a great film, there was a focus on African American and whites, but it takes a whole perspective with other races such as Hispanics and Koreans. There are constant scenes where if the characters are doing the right thing. it often leaves the readers thinking contradictive on which side to choose. It questions a person’s morals and values that so how what’s more important. The quote explained in class from Martin Luther King can serve as the movie motto because violence cannot stop violence, only leading both sides devastated.