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Do the Right Thing is Spike Lee's masterpiece, a crowning achievement of cinema that he's yet to top in over 30 years. A film where Lee directs, acts, writes and produces the hell out of the film all by himself. The concept is genuis, a scorching hot summers day in Brooklyn leads to the tensions of a diverse community erupting into violence.
Lee's direction is loud, brash and in your face. The film is loud visually and sonically, it needs to be to get its point across and its clearly worked with the films success. What I love about this film and Spike Lee's direction is that he's really a man on a mission, he wants you as an audience member to do something, have an opinion even. If anything he knows that he's failed as a director if you don't. The film is constantly screaming out the the audience and I love that about it. It doesn't do it in a pandering way but instead uses techniques that I've never seen used in a film before.
Ernest R. Dickerson manages to do something with the camera in this film which is very rarely seen in many other pictures ever. The man uses everything at his disposable to conjure up some of the most captivating and creative cinematography I've ever seen in a film. The colours, framing, and lighting are absolutely genuis and it's given the film its own iconic look and it without a doubt wouldn't be the same without it.
It's no doubt that Do the Right Thing wouldn't be the film it is without the performances, every single actor gives it their all here and Spike directs every one of them to what should have been a sweep of Oscar nominations.
There's no other film like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, it really is something special. The story is genuinely written, the direction is hard hitting and suits the tone perfectly, and the performances tie everything together perfectly. It's a film that deserves to be talked about 100 years from now and will always be a classic to me.
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