On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. (IMBD) Directed by Spike Lee. The cast of the film is mostly African American, save for some extras obviously.

In the film, the African American gang and the Hispanic gang butt heads, but Lee’s message is loud and clear. He’s giving voice to the problems that have been going on for years. It’s giving a different set of eyes than the ones of the media and what’s been being told to the rest of the United States.

Several of the characters make assumptions about each other purely based on each others skin colors and things that they can only see with their eyes. People shouldn’t just make assumptions about someone just because of their skin color, it’s unnecessary and petty. The feuds don’t need to happen because the film clearly shows that everyone deserves the same amount of respect as anyone else.

The different cultures in the movie explains to the spectators how easily people stereotype people from other cultures. For example; People with African-American background might have a different view of this movie, then an Italian-American. But the spectators sees the reality of how hard it can be to have a different background than a normal white American in a modern world.

This movie is an interpretation of the events from the past surrounding the Civil Rights movement. The spectators can see that in the reference the disabled man shows, the picture of Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. It was the fight for racial equality, which people are still fighting for today. This movie helps to educate people, no matter what race, to see past skin color and see the person behind it. It is not just about the ethnicity in this particular movie, but every race and color.