Do
The Right Thing Movie Review:
For
the first two thirds of the movie the plot is centered on
the daily goings on of various people in the Bedford-Stuyvesant
neighbourhood in Brooklyn on the hottest day of the year
where tensions rise until the climax of the movie. These
tensions are caused by... well, most people in the movie
being racist, with the blacks hating the Italians who own
the local pizza place and vice versa, the racist white cops
and the Korean dude who owns another shop getting abused
all day.
The
mood of the film is set in stone during these first parts
and the climax that eventually comes seems inevitable. This
is helped by both the acting - there are some good performances
from Danny Aiello and John Turturro in particular - and
the way in which it is shot. The camera is often right in
everyones face and is shot in a quasi-documentary style
constantly following the action around where ever it went
giving it an unpredictable feel. The choas of the final
scenes is captured perfectly.
This
is definitely a good thing from the point of view of the
story but it seemed that the story was all about people
looking for an argument and wanting things to go off in
the way they did, no one tries to put a stop to any of the
bad feeling that exists, they just accept it and most of
the time add to it. But alas I think this is exactly what
Mr Lee was looking for. He made the points that he wanted
to make with Do The Right Thing, whether you agree with
him is a whole other matter.
BBM
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