I was shocked with the ending of "Do the right thing", but I understood it was just Spike Lee expressing himself. I was thinking about Spike Lee, and how personal his movies are. There are a few scenes with enormous violence glasses that break, shootings, people hurt We feel it, and it is hard to watch. Like directors of the league of Scorsese or Oliver Stone, Ice Cube tries to makes us see what he sees. What is also captivating and remarkable, is how much of him we can see in the film.
He has a desperate need to show things as real as possible, even if it is a fiction story, so his camera moves like eyes most of the times, like afraid of watching what's waiting on the other side, so the impact is harder when we seed alongside the camera. His gift as a director (because he could have sucked) comes with the importance he gives to the camera. However, Cube always keeps the story focused in its center point. Like in any other story, these are not the only ones in Cube's vision There are lots of them and each of them has their own thing that relates to another thing. Every day she deals with cousin Ebony (Monica Calhoun), who lives with her and has more than two times her problems her unfaithful boyfriend and the different people in the club, including DJ Blue (a calm portrayal by Jamie Foxx), who likes her. In Dollar Bill's (original Bernie Mac) club, "The players club", she is not the typical stripper, dancing with all the others she has a special number, and some clients. In his tale, where he also allows a role for him, we meet Diana (a powerful and gripping performance by Lisa Raye), a young girl and aspiring journalist with a lot of problems that drive her towards working on a strippers club, to get money and become Diamond. Whether he got inspiration from there or not, I don't care, but the screenplay is his. He had done that type of film before, with independent man John Singleton, among others in that film I regret not seeing yet, "Boyz N' the Hood". He wouldn't do the stupid gangster films the other rappers do because he takes the job seriously so seriously he wrote his own neighborhood and people story, which is unexpectedly touching in its most impressive moments. In 1998, he got his chance to direct his movie his first and only up to date. With the production company he has, he could have the highest ego, but he continues on doing his job. Plus, he is a very good actor who does what he pleases and likes to and never disappoints. He is a rapper, a musician who writes songs for films, and is good at it, besides being a low profile artist. Not that Ice Cube is the biggest celebrity of the planet, but he is an actor I appreciate too much. "An Ice Cube film" Wow, that's already big enough.
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