Do the Right Thing (1989)

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Do the Right Thing was released on July 21, 1989, in the USA. The American drama film was produced by 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks. The movie storyline was written and directed by Spike Lee. In the end, the movie was dedicated to the families of Eleanor Bumpurs, Michael Griffith, Arthur Miller, Edmund Perry, Yvonne Smallwood, and Michael Stewart, six black people, five of whom were killed by police officers, in the climactic scene of the film, as the character Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) is.[1]

Plot

On a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn on the hottest day of the year, everyone's hatred and racism explode and rises until it bursts into a rage which was begun as a simple complaint by one of the customers.

Controversy

The film, controversial when it was first released (the media publicly speculated that it would ignite violence), examines how on the hottest day of the summer, racial disparity drives the tension in primarily African-American culture. The film responds with justified anger to white supremacy and paternalism, calling attention to structurally oppressive systems and the inequalities they generate; injustices that still currently exist. [2]. The main character Mookie was having a chat with Pino, the son of Sal. During the talk, Pino was not discrete about his hatred for African Americans. As said by Mookie during the talk, the prejudice, whether for African Americans or any other race is not certainly based on individual confrontations with them but rather built upon the influence of the environment.[3]

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