The Rightest Thing Dept.

In the comments section of a really good essay on Spike Lee's best and most widely debated movie is this gem. I have excerpted it here in full, because it deserves it, and because I'm about to go off on some major tangents with it.

HULK’S FAVORITE MOVIES: DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) | Badass Digest

I think the point on why audiences expect films to moralize is kind of simple: we use film, in America at least, to live vicariously through others so we don't have to engage in the actions ourselves....