![]() Unlike too many contemporary (OK, white) critics who focused on their own racial fears, the students also appreciated Lee’s art. The students had a lot to say about Lee’s painful themes and arguments, which, among other things, dynamically put Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() It’s part of the curriculum now: we received comments from high school students who watched it for class as well as remarks from some teachers. What has changed is that the movie, enormously controversial when it was released in 1989, has been embraced as a classic. For our latest Weekend Watch Party, we revisited the broiling Brooklyn of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” a film whose unflinching, complex depiction of racial tension has not dated much in 31 years.
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