Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes place on one very hot day at Sal's Famous Pizzaria in Bedford Stuyvesant, a Black neighborhood in Brooklyn where the general undercurrent of class and race resentment is kept under pressure by the heat until it explodes in violence by the day's end...
...tackles the internal reasons as well--the frequency of fatherless Black children, the self-defeat of internalized racism, the misplaced hostility towards easy victims who are not the real causes of oppression, the misdirected activism towards dead-end causes...
There are no easy solutions offered in this film, and no absolutes. Lee instead blurs all the dividing lines. There is no right and no wrong, and even the lines of race, around which all of the tension is developed, are left blurred at the end. The Korean man, fearing that his shop will be the next one gutted by fire, proclaims that he is Black...
...decide. Do the Right Thing is a difficult film because it forces all members of the audience to think--hard--about their personal positions about race relations and come up with their own conclusions. And, like the final quote from Malcolm X, the movie has a very disturbing, depressing end...
...remembered for collecting those incredible statistics in front of the same fans, always under the shadow of the Green Monster, that left fielder's nightmare whose caroms he mastered as no one else has. Yaz was the end of an era, when baseball players were known for the uniform they wore and the fans they played in front of as much as for their talents...