Everyone is a fucking motherfucker in this shitty ass film. All they fucking do is fucking whine all day about fucking racial FUCKING problems. Do you fucking see how fucking annoying this kind of language is for fuck's sake? That's the essence of the film's dialogue. Which film am I talking about? Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) - a film which caused a lot of heated political discussion because the film deals with racism in the worst possible way: by provoking people in unreasonable ways.
You can notice while watching the movie that Lee seriously tries to dig deep into its subject (and so he has said in interviews), but the problem is that he doesn't get to his point. The film is way too provocative for anyone to be watched objectively. The worst thing is that every ethnicity's flaws are exaggerated and no one is a good person in this film. The film is full of bad-mouthing every character and ethnical group. Everything Lee "wants to say" is stuck into ridiculous monologues or quotes (at the end of the film) which only vaguely get to the point.
His visuals aren't good either. The kinetic form becomes a little too comic for its own sake (too many useless Dutch angles, for example), but I've got to give Lee credits for at least trying hard. The color palette is very bright and a bit too "trendy" - and thus, it's quite distracting. The musical score is quite horrible as well - it's off-putting in its ridiculous sentimentality.
The film's name, Do the Right Thing, is supposed to be ironic in the film's own context. However, for me the name is ironic because the film makers didn't do the right thing themselves.
Score: 3 out of 10
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