Do The Right Thing

In the film Do the Right Thing Violence and hate was an issue amongst the varius races.  Rarely did anyone ever express their feelings to other races.  they would try to make them suffer and humiliate the others, allowing themselves to have the upper hand in the situation.  Violence was used more than verbal explanations, and in the end death for some was a result.  Bigger also did not express himself verbally.  If people expressed themselves verbally, there is more of a chance of them coming to an aggreement or a mutual understanding.  Bigger was a man of action, "Bigger did not offer in his life any articulate verbal explanations (452)."  Bigger often acted with violence and didn't think before acting "Bigger had impulses (452)."  Native Son and Do the Right Thing both show rivalries and conflict between different minorities.  People become selfish when they do not get along.  People don't bother to understand others they simply think, "God, I wish I had a flag and a country of my own (440)."  The United States is not big enough for everyone when we are not united or loving.

A coincidence that I found to be interesting was Radio Raheem's hand jewelry.  'Love' was on his right hand and 'hate' on the left.  In the end violence and hate led to deaths and heartache.  Fighting is never justifiied when used in the wrong way.  This correstpond to the title of the movie, Do the Right Thing.  I think there is a hidden message saying to do the "right" thing, as in Love.  At the end of Native Son Bigger learns to accept people, places and things for who/what they are and for the most part to love.  I think no person is perfect and everyone makes mistakes and has their flaws.  All have good intentions, but sometimes act in the wrong ways.  Radio Raheem often spoke of love, but then why did he pull Sal across the counter and beat him?  Impulses can get in the way of our logic and we make irrational decisions.  Every person is reedemed at a point.  At the end of the film when Mookie tries to turn down the bonus salary and Sal insists on him accepting.  I do sence bitterness between the two characters, but there is love too.  They respectfully talk to eachother without using violence.  I think they all finally learned their lessons after the violent, tramatic night before.  The messege that I received was violence solves nothing.