Do+the+Right+Thing+response

Do the Right Thing is considered one of the most controversial movies ever made and I believe those who consider it so. The movie deals with racism, a topic that rarely anyone wants to discuss, yet the slurs are used to much. The film doesn't try to hide the fact that you will have a side to it and you need to be able to open your eyes to the other side. No one could really see both sides of the movie because no one could live both ways and have feelings about both. I'm not really sure how to feel about this movie, it's certainly not a bad movie and I don't dislike it, but the ending was kind of heavy, and the insanity of it stops me from liking it. The only feeling that I can honestly say that I have about the movie only is that it left me with a hollow feeling. Normally I judge if I like a movie on the characters, but the characters were vastly different from one another and so well developed that at times you can't even tell if Mookie is the main character or just watching from the sidelines. You really can't judge a film like this based on the characters because the characters are symbols for different things and some characters were made to make you feel a certain way; this doesn't mean that I have to like the characters though. My least favorite character was Bugging Out, and you weren't supposed to like him; he's a punk who screams about racial injustice and preaches about Martin Luther King and black heritage and pride, but he never even tries to rise up and get to that level of understanding and peaceful communication that King was hoping for. Instead he gets angry over idiotic things and never learns from his mistakes by the end of the film. My favorite character would have to be Da Mayor, a kind, elderly, black gentleman who does odd jobs around the neighborhood. He's cool and collected and he preaches about understanding and right and wrong, he is one of the view characters that could give you hope at the end of the movie because he's constantly trying to do the right thing even if the other's in the neighborhood think of him as a bum and a drunk.