1989 - DO THE RIGHT THING, one of Spike Lee's best films

One of Spike Lee's best films.  Do The Right Thing examines the mistrust, resentment and confusion in the interactions between white and black Americans.  Spike Lee's film was amazingly prescient in 1989 and sadly still very relevant for 2023.

Lee was really the triple threat with this film, he wrote, directed and played a featured role as the flawed protagonist Mookie, a delivery man working at a local pizzeria in Brooklyn.  Danny Aiello is the owner of the pizzeria who has been in the neighborhood a number of years and doesn't have a clue about the lives of the people living around him.

 

Spike Lee put together an excellent cast, Samuel Jackson, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John Turturro, Bill Nunn and Rosie Perez to name just a few.

 No film is perfect and probably the worst scene in the film is the love scene between Lee and Rosie Perez which involves ice cubes of all things, it's very silly stuff and not very erotic.

Credit on this film should also be given to Ernest Dickerson who did the photography and Lee's longtime editor Barry Alexander Brown.  Do The Right Thing is an excellent film from a dramatic and technical stand point.

The running time is 120 minutes.