Do the Right Thing (1989)
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito
Synopsis:
Racial tensions mount in Brooklyn during a heatwave, centring around Sal's pizzeria.
Review:
Undeniably perspicacious gloss on Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, constructed revue-like over one day during which the atmosphere can be cut with a knife, and violence, which finally breaks out, seems only an inch away. Ironically, with so many ignorant knuckleheads yelling abuse at each other, it is the two most articulate, potential mediators, played by Aiello and Lee, who finally provoke the conflagration. Polemical film-making at its most self-conscious, but still its director's triumphant masterpiece.
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito
Synopsis:
Racial tensions mount in Brooklyn during a heatwave, centring around Sal's pizzeria.
Review:
Undeniably perspicacious gloss on Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, constructed revue-like over one day during which the atmosphere can be cut with a knife, and violence, which finally breaks out, seems only an inch away. Ironically, with so many ignorant knuckleheads yelling abuse at each other, it is the two most articulate, potential mediators, played by Aiello and Lee, who finally provoke the conflagration. Polemical film-making at its most self-conscious, but still its director's triumphant masterpiece.
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito
Synopsis:
Racial tensions mount in Brooklyn during a heatwave, centring around Sal's pizzeria.
Review:
Undeniably perspicacious gloss on Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, constructed revue-like over one day during which the atmosphere can be cut with a knife, and violence, which finally breaks out, seems only an inch away. Ironically, with so many ignorant knuckleheads yelling abuse at each other, it is the two most articulate, potential mediators, played by Aiello and Lee, who finally provoke the conflagration. Polemical film-making at its most self-conscious, but still its director's triumphant masterpiece.