Do the Right Thing!

The ending to Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee infuriated me. It was very stupid how the citizens acted. It is not right of them to obliterate Sal's store for the fact that he was not the person that killed Radio Raheem. As for the death of Radio Raheem, it should not have happened the police should have been able to retrain him instead of just killing him. This also outraged me. I did not enjoy how Radio Raheem and Buggin' Out started the whole thing by attempting to change Sal's personal store. I do not think that they had the right to go in there and disturb the peace and demand something from a store that was privately owned. If anything they should have gone in there and politely asked for him to change it. I do not think that it showed the racism fact as much as Spike Lee wanted it to but with the language it used I felt a relief from the normal movies that censor the normal language of people. Overall it was an interesting movie that brought up some facts to think about.

The Battle of Algiers, so real yet it wasn't

The Battle of Algiers brought new light to the truth of documentaries. It showed that movies could be made to appear to be them but actually is not. With this governments or other political parties could manipulate the masses by providing a false film of events. Even with saying this I believe that The Battle of Algiers was a good movie for its time. It was in black and white even when color was around which made it seem to be more of a documentary. Adding to the documentary effect was the fact that the camera movements where shaky when filming to simulate that it was made by an average person, or a person that did not have the time to actually set up the shot. On top of those things it helped that it did not follow one person like most movies. Overall I twhought it was an intriguing movie by its showing how terrorist can operate and show a way to counteract it.