Just finished I’m A Virgo - which was awesome - and couldn’t help but think of Spike Lee’s seemingly incoherent ideology and how, while Boots continues to release bangers, Spike shills crypto.
Admittedly, I have only seen two of Spike Lee’s “social” movies, Do The Right Thing (which I really didn’t “get” - please chime in if you can clarify) and Bamboozled (which I thought was poignant but a bit heavy handed and nihilistic). It appears to me that Spike Lee grasps the racial inequities in American society, but doesn’t grasp the greater dimensions - he’s trapped in, or has fallen into the trap of, detached liberalism.
I could be way off base here, so I hope y’all can offer some illumination - it seems like the crucial difference between Spike and Lee is that Boots has read theory.
Thoughts?
Just standard “we can fight white supremacist capitalism with black capitalism” stuff imo.
Yeah, RIP to Killer Mike for falling into that trap too. But as opposed to his crypto shilling, Lee’s message in Do The Right Thing also confused me because it seemed to be ripe for a message of working class solidarity but then it was about, uhhh, the function of riots as expression? And I guess the pizza shop owner was petite bourgeoisie? It’s been so long since I’ve seen it.
