Sunday, December 16, 2007

"Remember, always do the right thing"

The movie Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee brought up many good points in what it means to "do the right thing". After watching the interview of Spike Lee talking about the movie, i found it most interesting that multiple times he told viewers to do the right thing, but people don't listen. Even in the movie, people didn't listen in doing the right thing. The cops didn't do the right thing by killing Radio Raheem. And the kids who were part of the riot didn't do the right thing either. He shoes that neither side ended up doing the right thing, which is what caused both catastrophe's. This continues on to the viewer. After watching the movie, people still decide not to do the right thing, even though it is shown to them what the wrong thing is. For example, the writing ranting about Sal's place being burned, but forgot about Radio's death. And vice versa, the people who focus only on Radio's death, but forget the other tragedy, not only in destroying Sal's place, but also in creating more problems int he community for people to even get angrier about. So in the end, these decisions that people make, will either contribute to reconciliation or to destruction.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The Battle

The critic writing for New York Magazine had a few interesting points. One thing that was interesting was how Yacef was basically trying to relive actual experiences he had when the actual battle was going on. This is good to know because it give the viewer a little more confidence in the sense that the director had a good source to know the actual events. But on the other hand, Mr. Yacef was part of the FLN, which would give the viewer reason to believe that many of the sense are biased towards the FLN because the main source of information came from an FLN leader. Also, i think one aspect the critic missed was perspective that since Mr. Yacef was an FLN leader it helped the movie lean more towards the FLN side. Which when I saw the movie thoguth the story had a more biased towards the FLN than the French, mainly because they were the "underdogs" in the story, and almost every story favors the "underdog." But I'm sure that Mr. Yacef had some influence in creating the slight bias. But overall the director did a very good job in creating a more neutral movie in just trying to the tell the story from both sides.