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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: SPIKE LEE: Do the Right Thing (1989)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of police murders, police brutality, racism, sex, racial tension, alcoholism.
Our Spike Lee series continues with, perhaps, Spike’s greatest movie and only his third full-length feature. It’s a movie so poignant and real that it can literally change lives, and we don’t say that lightly. Of course, Hollywood was terrified it would incite violence and rioting, which is preposterous because its real message is how to navigate living together, both in peace and violence. Spike doesn’t ask easy que...