Do the Right Thing

Always wanted this to be the first Spike Lee I would watch, never expected it to hit so hard. Truly an amazing film. Never failed to entertain me for 120 minutes, at the end left me speechless. If you haven't seen this one yet, watch it! It's one of those films that everyone with a little bit of love for cinema should watch. Maybe its even one of those films everyone needs to be shown in school. I still don't know what to write about this film at the moment. Still have to let it all sink in and rewatch it next year.

Good movie. Important movie. It may be 33 years old but it's still relevant. You can feel the 100 degrees and the tension. It reminds me of La Haine, but I like this movie better for its more intriguing motley NY multicultural microcosm. It's of course not a very enjoyable movie. It's not meant to be. Virtually everybody is racist, everybody is yelling and - as a cold North European - I can't really relate to all those true or histrionic emotions that eventually lead to doom. Some of the characters seem to be a bit too cartoon-ish, even stereotype. But that's clearly a deliberate choice. This movie is full of brilliant characters, Which all represent certain sections of the American society. I like the fact, that almost nobody in this movie is exclusively good or bad. It were easy to depict the black community as innocent victims of brutal cops but the movie is much more complex. Needless to say, but it has a great score.