I don’t think Do The Right Thing was saying Mookie throwing that trash can through the window was the “right thing” – 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 – but it was a study of someone who would come to conclude it is. But that journey’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’t.

“Spike Lee movie about processing the experience of the Vietnam War” sounds very promising