Do the Right Thing Kahrs

Merriah Kahrs 

Dr.Permenter

June 30, 2012

Blog Three 

When I first watched Do the Right Thing I was somewhat of a difficult film to watch. It was hard for me to understand what was fully going on but then about 30 minutes in I understood a little better. This movie was one that could offend someone with the racial differences throughout the film. But then again a movie is all how you interoperate it. The time period also played a role in how people would take the events throughout the film. In Emersons review he said “it’s a deliberately unsettling and provocative film”. This clearly makes my point it is can be unsettling for some viewers but his point is that it’s made to do just that. It was interesting to see how the African Americas didn’t own a shop but they were the reason the stores had business. They Italians and Koreans were the ones that owned the stores. The conflicts that occurred between the actors in the film was hard to watch but it’s something people need to see because racism is still here today.

            Another thing that I noticed in Emersons review is the work wake up. I feel that he was trying to get across to people that everyone is the same and there is no need to discriminate against one another. You might have different out looks on situations but that doesn’t give anyone the right to be disrespect another human being. All people needed to do is hear one another out and the conflicts would have been taken care of in the correct manor.  That is just like any other situation in today’s world if you think about it.

The colors and angles are something that was noticeable throughout the film. The colors and lighting I feel were used to show that they characters were uncomfortable in certain situations. The angles that were used were definitely low and high angles.  For example Radio Raheem was shown from a low angle to emphasize power and size. Any angle that was used in the film was there to give more meaning. One example of a high angle would be the scene with Mother Sister to show that she was looking down upon a character that was intoxicated.

What that being said I will have to say that that was probably my favorite scene is when Mother Sister is talking to Da Mayor. She is talking to him from her window, this gave me a wonderful understand of how there is distance between the characters when being filmed.  Then at the end of the film they are on the same level. That just shows how people can be on the same level even if one is a character like Mother Sister and another one is a drunk. I really enjoyed this movie and think that even film students should have to watch this film; it addresses many things that need to be brought to EVERYONES attention.