Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is a panoramic film that presents in great detail the life of a black neighborhood in Brooklyn on a decisive day for the people and for race relations between the residents and an Italian merchant who runs a pizza shop in the heart of the neighborhood. This is a film that toys with certain generic conventions while also avoiding most of the cliches of this type of film, and Lee also uses the conventions and the general story structure to build to a violent climax that emphasizes and strengthens the theme of the work, a theme related to race relations in America and to the manner in which differences are always magnified even by the well-meaning. Lee sees a division between black and white in America that is not easily bridged, for there is always a sense of difference that determines the course of relations between the races. This sense of difference affects both groups (and "black" can be considered here to be a representa

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