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The Doctor

Spike Lee's very, very perceptive movie on race relations. Everything that Lee displays in the first half of the picture pays off brilliantly in the second half of it. No one really does "the right thing," and that's why it works so well. It's easy to see why it shook the world, then and now.

13 years 1 month ago

baraka92

Da Mayor is the voice of reason in the movie, everyone else acts like a jerk at some point.

13 years 6 months ago

Woliver

This really touched me; now, i think its ok if you dont like this movie, no one HAS TO like anything, but people putting hate in their comments make me feel they just didnt hear anything; maybe they are way too self-opinionated people and need to hear more different ideas.

12 years 2 months ago

Samuel Silva

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

10 years 7 months ago

MrCarmady

Powerful and entertaining. Palpable heat combined with some of the best treatment of racial tension + awesome cast = masterpiece.

14 years ago

jmars

Just watched this film in 2020 for the first time and it could have been made this year. Still every bit as relevant and powerful.

3 years 7 months ago

Fellini_Fiend87

Yeah, don't listen to the haters. They really don't understand. This is one of the greatest and most important films ever made.

13 years 7 months ago

Siskoid

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, juggling a large cast of characters dealing with racial tensions on an extremely hot day on an inner city street, has been called ambiguous by some, too obvious by others, but I think neither hits the mark. Rather, I'd call the film ambivalent. It's not merely saying racism is bad, because we know that, nor is it necessarily striking for a deeper, hidden truth. What it does, despite the funky stylistic choices like direct addresses to the camera, is present every day racism with all its textures and levels, its clichés AND contradictions, with humor and drama both. The racism fueled by simple irritation and misunderstanding right up to the explosion of violence and hate crimes of the end of the film. How one can like a person from another ethnic group, and yet be prejudiced against the group. How some people are very much the cliché hateful people would make of a certain race, without necessarily being examplars of that race (why else would Lee give himself the role of Mookie, the lazy pizza delivery boy whose girlfriend accuses him of being a deadbeat dad?). Point is, it presents us with realities, and by presenting makes us ask questions about racism in our lives and points of view. If you're looking for something profound, you'll find it in yourself, if you dare look.

7 years 1 month ago

BigAwesomeBLT

Thought it was quite a cool day-in-the-life film for the first half like clerks, slacker or empire records. Then it really kicked in for the last 40 mins. The guy on the bike was more of a dick than Sal, but I guess boomboxes were pretty expensive back in the day? I didn't expect things to go as far as they did as everyone seemed pretty chill in the first half.

9 years ago

Musanna

One of the greatest films ever made.

11 years 12 months ago

Cynicus Rex

“Thank God for the right nipple. Thank God for the left nipple.”

Real.

1 year 6 months ago

dajmasta94

This is one of the greatest cinematic achievements to date if you ask me. This film has such a powerful ending that proves challenging for some who might not understand that nobody is truly meant to be the moral compass here, with the possible exception of Da Mayor. The name of the film is Do The Right Thing, which after seeing the film you realize how genius that is because see no one doing the right thing when it matters, we see the casual prejudices that exist in the everyday lives and mentality of the characters portrayed bubble over making monsters of everyone. It attempts to objectively show the faults of all parties involved after making us fall in love with so many of them. It’s such a shame that this didn’t wake the world up more when it came out, art like this could change the world if our society gave the respect it should give to artists and art as a whole.

4 years 9 months ago