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Rating: Chapter 2. Camel light headache on the eye and Amsterdam ashtray.
Clichés. Street legend missing.
Awarded by critics as one of the top summer films, while the heat in Rome clings to our souls, I can only speak of clichés over this quirky story of friendship between a drug dealer and a psychologist.
In the sweltering summer of New York City in 1994, this tale is set, which was formerly titled "Wackness", and takes on the responsibility and honor of depicting the pinnacle of hip-hop just as Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tries to tackle crime.
A Ben Kingsley, amusing overall, portrays the psychologist who indulges in drugs, psychotropics, and egocentrism, always quick to advise the "wrong" thing to do, like having sex instead of taking medicine, or not trusting those who don't smoke joints and don't listen to Bob Dylan.
It's wrong because when I think of "Do The Right Thing" by a certain Mr. Spike Lee, a slice of lived life, a masterpiece of metropolitan portrait, and then see this pseudo-farce of unenlightened whites, filled with clichés and easy-cash scenes, it doesn't sit well with me.
Besides, unforgettable characters like Radio Raheem, Buggin Out, Sal (Danny Aiello), Pino (John Turturro), aren't overshadowed by Josh Peck and Famke Janssen, who, although good actors, are not supported by a truthful and original screenplay to the end, risk and then succeed in sinking into clichés, of cinema, of the street seen from home, of the incredible story of the autonomous New York dealer, white, frigid, and with low self-esteem.
"Do The Wrong Thing" is too much the shark film of "Do The Right Thing", not only that, besides the soundtrack and the "old school" tapes, nothing takes us back to the ‘90s, the same costumes, the settings, would suggest a film cooked up without much desire for renewal and detachment from a film that set a precedent, the one by Spike, which still lives today in our remote adolescent memories.
Image: Ghettoblaster, Jordan air, street black and white culture.
In this film, there's a lot of stuff that, in my opinion, is wrong, from people who know little about the street reality of 1994, leaving nothing good in the viewer's mind, who cannot come away convinced.
Fight the power!!!
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