For some reasons, I always stayed away from movie based on racism. (May be because I often face this in my day to day life?)But after watching Crash, I felt I missed a lot on this subject. So I brought serious of movies DVDs on this subject. “DO the Right thing” is one of them. This movie was written, produced, acted and directed by Spike Lee. This movie is all about what happened in 15 hours timeframe on a hot summer day in a multi-ethnic community, dominated by black, where a small pizza center owned and operated by a white Italian American with his two sons. Mooke (Spike lee himself) acted as pizza deliver boy. Spike spend good amount time in establishing the black the community characters & sequence of stupid events leads to a death of a community member & complete destruction of the pizza restaurant. Mooke character goes threw lot of emotions (hopelessness, helplessness, anger and Stupidty etc.) Definitely an honest attempt by Spike Lee on a slice of American Society& it is very difficult to answers many of the question raised by this movie. I remember one quote before talking about cinematography “better is blessed” This movie was blessed with the best possible cinematography by “Ernest Dickerson”. I watched “The Criterion Collection” collection DVD. Spike's commentary on different characters & his thoughts gives more insights in to movie.
Movie ends with following two quotes.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.
- Malcolm X
Movie ends with following two quotes.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.
- Malcolm X
I watched this movie last year. Dumping my notes now.
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