MAN.... he just scuffed my new Jordans

A question that was brought up after viewing Do the Right Thing. This film was about adressing racial isusses in a poor neighborhood. It was all african americans except for a dad,Sal, and his two sons, Pino and Vito who ran Sal's Famous Pizzeria. Towards the end of the film, Radio Raheem, an african american local was killed by a white policeman which started a riot. Another main character was Mookie played by Spike Lee. He threw a garbage can through Sal's Famous Pizzeria to spark the riot. The question that was asked was: Did Mooking do the right thing? People wonder why he did that when it seemed like he and Sal got along.

After viewing the film, I don't think that Mookie was trying to take it out on Sal. I think he was just so frustrated that his friend was just murdered by a white cop, that in the heat of the moment that's who he was mad at was whites. He could correlate that with Sal and the pizza place because they are the only whites in that town. Some people say he over reacted and some say he did the right thing. I don't think Mookie was against or for the riot but he was just so frustrated in the heat of the moment that he snapped and got frustrated. I don't think he over reacted but on the other hand I don't think it ws because he didn't like Sal.

Battle of Algiers

The Article written by Ann Hornaday from the Washington Post was not really a review that she gave her opinion on the movie. She sort of layed out some key points of the movie and how they related to other things. One thing that I found interesting in the article was that the director, Pontecorvo, used non-famous actors and ones that actually faught in those battles. I think it would have been really hard for an actor to relive that but maybe Pontecorvo found that they would know the role the best being from that time.

Another interesting this that Hornaday brought up was the fact that Pontecorvo brought up both the Algerian and French side well. He portrayed them both equally and left his opinion out of it. I think he did a good job of showing both sides of the Frech army and the Algerian citizens like Ali La Pointe.

She also talks about how some people critisized how real the film was. She defends Pontecorvo by saying that it was an art with all his beautifully placed shots and space that he used. I agree with her on that. I really like all the shots he did whether it was high angle for the pont of view of the french looking down from the top of the buildings or Ali La Points close up when he was in the hide out. I think Pontecorvo did an excellent job he portraying realism and I think that's what he was going for.