Review – Do the Right Thing

This “hot, summer day in the life of Bedford-Stuy” is a simple yet eloquent treatment of our culture’s awkward approach to race relations. Spike Lee does a masterful job of populating his movie with genuine characters and situations as authentic as they are entertaining. One simply cannot help but feel the joys and sorrows of the people striving to get along, or at least achieve some sort of uneasy peace. The only caveat I attach to my whole-hearted recommendation of this film is the strong suggestion that you see the uncut version; Standards and Practices does such a dreadful job on the edited-for-TV copy (who the hell says “mickey fickey”?) that you really need to see the movie as the director made it. Buy the tape