All tagged Racism
When I first saw Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing I was greatly affected, not just because it is a cinematic masterpiece of epic proportions, but because it said something broader about the world at large.. Lee handles the subject matter of racial tension in a thoughtful and powerful way in all of his films, but I bring up the 1989 classic because it changed my life for the better.
The 13th Amendment supposedly freed the slaves. Sadly, it did not, and has not, rendered all American citizens free. The prison industrial complex (a term that is greatly explored in this film) has incarcerated 25% of the entire world’s prisoners just in the US...
Love against all odds is the most horrifying, and often heart wrenching, of genre conventions. To know as a society that this not only happened to the Lovings, but generations upon generations of mixed families, is absolutely grotesque.
Comparing their films wouldn’t make much sense, because there is no clear winner when it comes to who was the greater visionary, and who came out on top in the next hundred or so years of study. What I want to talk about instead is the comparison between each when it comes to their more problematic and offensive films, which have not aged well in the realms of film history.
