Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while these incidents could have inspired an overwhelmingly angry film, Do the Right Thing manages to reveal the humanity of its characters, with both good and bad sides...
...frustration of the Black community is the central topic of this film, and Lee outlines the external and internal causes of its fragmentation...
...film is far more than entertainment; it is social commentary...
There are no easy solutions offered in this film, and no absolutes. Lee instead blurs all the dividing lines. There is no right and no wrong, and even the lines of race, around which all of the tension is developed, are left blurred at the end. The Korean man, fearing that his shop will be the next one gutted by fire, proclaims that he is Black...
...climax of the film is not enough, the final ideas left for the viewer to ponder are a pair of quotes from Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. King explains why violence is always destructive for everyone, and Malcolm X describes why violence may be necessary sometimes...