Do The Right Thing, Yo!

Do the Right Thing directed by Spike Lee was a great comedy with a tragic ending. Spike Lee wrote a directed this film which was about racism. I really liked this movie. I found it to be very funny and made me think a lot. I liked how Spike Lee used colors to make things stand out. An example is the big bright red wall the three guys are sitting in front of all day. This movie takes place on the hottest day of the year and the red wall represents the heat. Spike Lee plays a guy named Mookie and Mookie is sort of the mediator between everyone. He works for a white man named Sal at Sal's pizza joint. Sal's pizza joint is in the heart of a black neighborhood and has had his pizza joint there for years. The whole conflict of the movie is that Sal doesn't have any pictures of "brothers" aka black people up on his walls. This causes two guys to fuss. The fuss becomes out of control and one person ends up dying, Radio Raheem. He was killed by a white police officer and that causes a lot of controversy. With the racial slurs and the actions between blacks and whites, Do the Right Thing makes you think about the reality of racism in our world today.