What Questions Does 'Do the Right Thing' Raise About American Society in 1989

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Spike Lee's 1989 movie 'do the right thing' is how the racism was inflicting at that time. The most powerful part of the movie for me was racism plus the division between the different racial groups, the racism seemed to be the biggest issue in the movie along with it was powerful because it showed the viewers how much of a struggle it was for the different racial groups to live a normal life without feeling the sense of segregation between the other racial groups. It makes us all aware of how effective it was back then and how much society has changed within the racism. Everyone’s hate begins to smoulder which turns into a big explosion of violence at the very end of the film. Mise-en-scene plays a huge role in this movie. The red and the water on the characters symbolise the heat and makes it feel like we are also experiences the heat setting in the movie furthermore I noticed that Mooky wore a Jackie Robinson baseball jersey through out most of the film which I came to the conclusion that it was a subliminal message and the jersey had some link towards the movie, Jackie played for the Brooklyn Dodgers where the movie took place. Spike Lee choosing to give his character the Jackie Robinson jersey may have represented the struggle that Jackie Robinson had with the whites of baseball. The creator of this film was Spike Lee, I think his message was the show people how disrespected the blacks were, although it was set in a black community the other racial groups seemed to have more power as they were the ones who owned shops and had a lot of money. I think Spike Lee portrayed it really well because through out the movie we saw how difficult it was for different multi-cultural people to live in one community knowing how much of a struggle it was going to be. The genre of this film is drama; I say drama because there seems to be a lot going on in the film. There

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