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Title: Overrated Film
Review: I watched Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" last night and was terribly disappointed. Nobody changes throughout this movie. In fact, Lee's one-dimensional characters live up to the stereotypes that Lee is desparately trying to give them. You have Pino, the racist Italian; Lee, who himself is the protypical lazy black man and racist himself; Aiello, was is the fiery owner of the pizza place, etc. Lee starts the riot that leads to the pizza joint's demise, and we don't know why he does this. Pino was right all along, according to Lee: people in this neighborhood CAN'T be trusted, can they? Question: who WOULDN'T have smashed Radio Rahemm's radio after he walks back into the pizza place blasting his boom box? It seems like a perfectly logical solution. It's not Aiello's fault that Raheem is killed by the police. Kind of a witless ending to a somewhat promising premise.
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