Do The Right Thing Review

     Based on the film Do The Right Thing, a movie directed by Spike Lee, no race, not one, has any good qualities. According to Lee, we're all racist, bias assholes. Not only that, but he makes it a point that no matter what, racism will always exist. Apparently, it's an eneivitable thing that we all have to endure. We "have" to put up with violent ignorance.
     Every character's bad characteristics outweighed the good in them, which makes a person like me, dislike the film. Though Sal was a fair, hardworking man, he was short-tempered and that caused a death in an "almost" innocent young man. Another example is that even though Buggin' Out was a passionate guy, he was obnixious and rude and, to be completely honest, an idiotic moron with a big mouth. He caused too many problems that he couldn't handle. Don't go looking for a fight and then become angry when you get one.
      Then there's characters like Smiley that were just offensive. The film portrayed people with disabilities as an annoyance and stupidity. And Mookie, a character that I just don't understand. He was so contradicting and by the end of the movie, I had no idea what his motives were. And in my opinion, Mookie did not do the right thing by throwing the trash can through the window. He should have thought of a different way to move the blacks' anger off of the Italians. Sal worked his whole life on that restaurant just to watch it be tore down.
       In Roger Ebert's review of the film, he says, "There are really no heroes or villains in the film". I disagree. I suppose he could argue that by saying things like Sal's oldest son was a villain because of how predjudice he is. But Buggin' Out also was. And then by the end, all of the blacks were. I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but I thinks by the end of the movie, the blacks were the villains.