Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:08 pm
Synopsis:
A group of people in Brooklyn are all assholes to each other on the hottest day of the year.
Review:
This movie made you think Spike Lee had a good career ahead of him for the next 30 years. The funniest part of the flick is that Spike Lee himself misses the point.
It was a dick move in a long chain of dick moves. As stated, everyone in this film is an asshole, from rather benign ones (Da Mayor, Mother Sister, Mr. Señor Love Daddy) to generally shitty examples of humanity (everyone else) who survive because they've carved out their own niche in their special clique. All the friction comes when a member of one group has to coexist with another, even for a few minutes, even if it's in a professional situation. The stark juxtaposition comes when you see people who were numb nuts a couple scenes ago act like a person in the next one.
Verdict:
To steal Leisher's thunder, yes, it's a racist film. Everyone in it is a prick, and every single character has pigment prejudice, including Mookie. I think that's the point.
A group of people in Brooklyn are all assholes to each other on the hottest day of the year.
Review:
This movie made you think Spike Lee had a good career ahead of him for the next 30 years. The funniest part of the flick is that Spike Lee himself misses the point.
Lee believes the key point is that Mookie was angry at the death of Radio Raheem, and that viewers who question the riot's justification are implicitly failing to see the difference between property and the life of a black man.
It was a dick move in a long chain of dick moves. As stated, everyone in this film is an asshole, from rather benign ones (Da Mayor, Mother Sister, Mr. Señor Love Daddy) to generally shitty examples of humanity (everyone else) who survive because they've carved out their own niche in their special clique. All the friction comes when a member of one group has to coexist with another, even for a few minutes, even if it's in a professional situation. The stark juxtaposition comes when you see people who were numb nuts a couple scenes ago act like a person in the next one.
Verdict:
To steal Leisher's thunder, yes, it's a racist film. Everyone in it is a prick, and every single character has pigment prejudice, including Mookie. I think that's the point.