Always Do The Right Thing

Do the Right thing takes place in the hottest day of the summer in Brooklyn. It tells many tightly interwoven stories going on the block, which can be disorienting if you're the kind of person who needs to keep perfect track of those things. If that happens to be the case, you need to put those feeling aside.

Do the Right Thing is easily the best movie we've see so far. It explores the ideas of racism and bias that would later be explored in Crash, but it does so without the same feeling of incrimination the later movie sports. This is a film about how extreme circumstances can push otherwise normal people much farther than they're willing to go.

Our story mainly revolves around Mookie, a young black man who's trying to make a living working at Sal's Famous Pizzeria. He's living with his sister and seems to be a bit of a deadbeat when it comes to his girlfriend and his son. The story also follows Sal, the owner of the pizzeria, and his two sons Vito and Pino. Sal is a kind man who's just trying to make a living, but Pino is openly racist. Things first begin to go awry when Mookie's friend, the aptly named Buggin' Out, decides to boycott Sal's Famous Pizzeria because the "Wall of Fame" has all italian americans and no black ones. What seems to be a silly dispute compounds with everything else on the block until... Well, why don't you just give the movie a shot?

Do the Right Thing snags an easy five out of five. It's both energetic and thought provoking without a looming moral accusation. Just remember not to get too hung up on the shifting stories; it'll all come together for the end.