do as it should

Trystan 2022-03-24 09:01:53

Spike Lee's peak work, the story chose a day in Brooklyn, New York, where Italians, Americans, blacks, Koreans, etc. lived. The small contradictions between the characters gradually accumulated and caused interracial hatred. The director starts from the details, does not classify people by skin color, and focuses on the contradictions formed by differences in personality and cognition, so there are kind-hearted Da Mayor and Vito, Radio Raheem and Pino who like to have trouble, and all kinds of people live together. The resulting contradiction is the most red, but it is replaced by exaggerated racial hatred, which hurts not only the body and property, but also makes the difficult relationship between people worse. In addition to violence, we must treat people and things around us rationally.

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  • Agustina 2021-12-08 08:01:50

    Admire the director's genius skills! Flexible photography and narration have shaped a block less than 100 meters into a kaleidoscope that condenses social and cultural history. Thinking of contradictions and violence can also be described as profound and simple, serious but not rigid, sharp but not biased.

  • Ashtyn 2022-03-23 09:01:55

    Good movies seem to have this characteristic: they are summaries and prophecies. Intense and loud, Do What You Should Be dizzying, it uses black music, blood, and camera language to justify black films—where labels are unnecessary and important. Spike Lee depicts the vivid black neighborhoods in detail, and analyzes the obvious and implicit contradictions and conflicts between various classes and races. When the tragic cycle plays out, anger should not be the only emotion, violence should not be the only action, it completes a very profound social structural reflection. It must be noted that the director himself (playing the character) is the initiator of the destruction of the peace. HATE and LOVE are fighting each other, when will real equality come? The more inexplicable the question is, the more it will prompt the audience to face up to the complex world in which they live. My personal history of watching black films must be marked by "Do as it should".

Do the Right Thing quotes

  • Tina: Trust you? The last time I trusted you, Mookie, I ended up with a son.

  • Buggin' Out: Yo, Sal, we're gonna boycott your fat pasta ass.

    Sal: You're gonna boycott me? You haven't got the *balls* to boycott me. Here, here's your boycott, up your ass. You've got a boycott.