feb 20

Review of “Do The Right Thing”

Maybe many people have the same thought as me. After watched “Do The Right Thing”, the first word comes to me is “racism”. This movie mainly reviews that relationship between immigration and American. Unexpectedly, there is not so much about violence but vocal cursing.

Mookie, one of the main characters in the movie, works as a delivery in an Italian American’s Pizzeria. It is against the black people culture or is a shame to work for the white, especially in Brooklyn. In the movie, conflicts exist between Mookie and Sal’s family. In fact, I don’t think Mookie is a racist. Actually, he tried to maintain good in Sal’s business; for example, he is good at delivering pizza; in some parts, he tried to keep the troublemakers away but not ally with them. In the one hand, he often argues with Pino about racism, but he is just protecting his race. On the other hand, in the last view of the movie, he threw the garbage bin to break the window and still asked for his salary in the next day. Is it what a non-racist will do?

Actually, it is really hard to judge if the people who are in the movie racist or not. For example, when bugging’ out asks the four black people to boycott Sal, to my surprise, they laugh at him and say they like it very much. Obviously, they are in the same color, shouldn’t they are in the same side? Moreover, no one in the community agree with him. Do they just not want to give an adventure for that or are really peaceful people? I don’t think so. In the last view, all of the black people attacks the Sal’s place and yelled at the cops for Radio Raheam’s death. In fact, I don’t think they are against the Sal’s. Sal’s is just a tool that let the black people to express their anger that has been confined for a long time. We can conclude that from they don’t attack the Korean store. As we know, Radio Raheam doesn’t have many friends, but when he dies, every person provokes. In the community, the White’s and southern Americans restrain most of the black people. They don’t respect each other although they are in a relatively non-violence environment for a time.

In conclusion, this movie, as the same tells us that the director’s goal is to ask people to do the right thing. Unreasonable actions happen almost everywhere in the movie, and there are some key words about the reasonable actions: responsibility, peace, and love.