DO THE RIGHT THING!

Well, to start of this movie had a really stong focus on racial issues. I'm sure that at the time of this movies release the problem of rasicm was just as big of a problem if not bigger than currently. Racism has been present throughout history and people have always been of opposing sides of issues. This movie is another great depiction of how these problems are present in our society . There were many examples of how racial tension is dealt with such as when Buggin' Out's shoes are scuffed by the white man and he flips shit and starts yelling at the guy. Also when Radio Rahem what killed the community lashed out at the thing they think caused it even though they didn't think it through and really consider what the problem was. In our society people do stupid things without thinking about what they are doing. Many problems with racism are still present today such as gangs. There is a lot of tension present in gangs and these tensions often lead to people getting hurt. Just like then we need to work together to try and stop these problems from happening.

The Battle of Algier

Well to start of the review of this movie that I read was the one by The Washington Post. This was a very unbiased review in my opinon and accuratly hit all the point about the movie. This review spoke about how the different sides of the movie were both depicted evenly without much extra puch for one side over the other being depicted. I already knew this but one fact that I still find really amazing about this movie that most of the actors were just pulled off the street and had even really been a part of the real event. I hadn't really thought of why the film was being re-released but now after reading this it makes perfect sense to me that it is parallel to what is going on over in Iraq right now. Another thing that we were already told but I continue to find to be funny was that the pentagon had a special showing of this movie just to try and understand terrorism better. Overall looking at this movie as a documentary I give it major props but as a movie I would want to watch on a normal day...no thanks.