{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I don't think Do The Right Thing was saying Mookie throwing that trash can through the window was the \"right thing\" \u2013 I think...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/676674639458598912/", "html": "<p>I don&rsquo;t think Do The Right Thing was saying Mookie throwing that trash can through the window was the &ldquo;right thing&rdquo; \u2013 I think the death of Radio Raheem was a classic tragedy, in which an outcome no one actually wants comes of the complex interactions of fundamentally understandable characters with sympathetic drives \u2013 but it was a study of someone who would come to conclude it <b>is</b>. But that journey&rsquo;s not all on the screen, I think a lot of it runs through ambient Black Thought that Spike Lee engaged with, and he could expect even say the bougie cast of A Different World to bring to the film but the actual New Yorker-reading audience it found didn&rsquo;t.</p>"}