struggle with power

Toy 2022-03-22 09:01:49

What is a black man? Black people are no longer a group defined by skin color, so Asian Koreans are afraid to say that I am also black, please don't hurt me. Therefore, although the black brother who worked for the white man was thinking of the kindness between him and the boss, he still seemed to be the representative of the black group at the moment, so he was the first to smash the store that caused people's anger. The symbolism of the stuttering white man's face dyed black in the fire couldn't be more obvious. Fire water not only needs to quench the heat of summer, but also quench the anger between people due to suspicion, and irrational violent venting. People take the opportunity to do injustice in the name of anger.

If it should be destroyed the most, it must not be the pizza shop that grew up with the people in the neighborhood, but the thousands of years of selfishness and discrimination of ideological people in the police station.

The destruction of the Italian's shop means that as the end of an era, the existence and development of gang power becomes the other side of the era, and there is not only one way to fight violence, but also a united force, but the radio responds. What's more, the intensification of individual independence as a cultural penetration makes people so hot that they can no longer repeat the Italian-style "street power".

The expression of the film is very clever. The complexity of culture, the evolution of civilization, the development of social contradictions, and the passion and helplessness of conflicts shown in the small environment are based on the individuality of each person, and each character is so real. Naturally, in such a story that reveals the complex relationship between political philosophy and social issues, we can still see the desires of human nature, such as the desire for love and the tiredness of life, the hope of calming down with ice in the heat. Seeing children and seeing the life stories of old people and young people, there is a shadow of history in this film.

The director's attitude actually tends to be objective and realistic, so the multi-perspective expression makes the viewer feel respected and sympathetic in addition to reality, thus feeling heavy and a kind of wisdom pain. No one is innocent and no one is guilty. The difficulties in this world are like this and cannot be rejected.

Everyone is eager to communicate with others, but the way people communicate is very important, every word will have an effect on the soul, they live in a world constructed with violent language, so hot and dry is an inevitable language root, climbing branches intertwined In this community, deep migration into people's inner emotions, heat and anger, violence and mania are like unstoppable instincts. It takes time and change to change this ecology, but fortunately it will happen slowly, time is beyond doubt.

Can the mind after being hurt by violent language be able to decode? They finally shook hands, seemingly reconciled, but helplessness still appeared on their faces.

The phrase "struggle with power" on the radio is very important. I think it may be an attitude. Only when there is struggle will everyone be respected and valued, and will the culture of discrimination and neglect as a habit become a deeper understanding of equality. people's hearts. Change is never possible without struggle.

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Extended Reading
  • Clement 2021-12-08 08:01:50

    Spike Lee's analysis and thinking on the issues of the black community permeates it, objective, neutral, and keen. The group show is very exciting

  • Fiona 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    Don't compare "Les Miserables" with "Do It All". Both touch upon the need for violence, but the latter has a sense of ethnic introspection that the former lacks. The anxiety and suffocation of "Hot Afternoon" combined with the oblique composition (especially the climax section, where blacks and whites are in a clever contrast to the crowdedness of the frame), shows the process of everyone in the block from anxiety to ecstasy. The police only appeared for a few minutes, but they were the initiators of the whole riot. The only thing the police have stabbed is to make the public pay the bill, leaving scars and hatred. As human beings, if it is impossible to eliminate prejudice, is violence and conflict inevitable? I think Spike Lee is helpless about this issue.

Do the Right Thing quotes

  • Mookie: Pino, fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra.

    Pino: Yeah? Well fuck you too, and fuck Michael Jackson.

  • Radio Raheem: Let me tell you the story of Right Hand, Left Hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand, Love, is finished. But hold on, stop the presses, the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes, now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt, he's down. Left-Hand Hate KOed by Love.