White Savior Films Are Utter Bullshit.

The “white savior” film narrative is, by far, the laziest way filmmakers tell stories about race and race relations. What is a “white savior film”, you ask? Well, it’s a film, almost always written by a white person, and the plot is, simply, a racist white person, throughout the course of the film, befriends a person of color (whether they be underprivileged or not) and … Continue reading White Savior Films Are Utter Bullshit.

96. Do The Right Thing (1989)

“On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.” I don’t believe that I have ever seen a Spike Lee film before. So, this was my first one. And, oh, was it a good one. It’s very clear from the beginning that Spike Lee has a … Continue reading 96. Do The Right Thing (1989)