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2020
Directed by Spike Lee
Synopsis
3 Brothers compiles Radio Raheem’s death scenes from Do the Right Thing with real footage of the deaths of Eric Garner in 2014 and George Floyd last week. All three men, including the fictional one, were killed by white police officers restraining them by their necks on the street. The film premiered during Lee’s appearance on CNN’s I Can’t Breathe: Black Men Living and Dying in America on May 31, anchored by Don Lemon.
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Bill Nunn Eric Garner George Perry Floyd Jr.
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Spike Lee
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English
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31 May 2020
USA
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31 May 2020
- TVOn CNN’s I Can’t Breathe: Black Men Living and Dying inAmerica
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Review by Grandt from Savages ★ 6
It's absolutely disgusting how Lee wormed himself into the deaths of real people. This is not how you spread awareness. Not even close.
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Review by AsdfBatman
I get what Lee was doing. I get the intention.
But in execution? This backfires so drastically. I get that he's trying to cross the lines of reality and cinema, but dude. This is not how you do it.
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Review by RoseKilledJack
Starting the journey of seeing all of Spike Lee’s filmography. This certainly caused a reaction in the comments. It was strange at first to see a fictional death merged in with the killings of George Floyd and Eric Garner. However, after some research and words from Lee himself, the death of Radio Raheem was inspired by Michael Stewart, a New York incident in the 80s. Life imitates art and art imitates life.
RIP to everybody involved.
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Review by Deat ½ 1
“Here’s the tragic loss of these two men and also my character from my movie which Is a classic and his death is just as bad, look at me”
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Review by WillJo ★★★★★
I don't care that people are saying Spike Lee is making himself the main character in this story... if you know the history of death that inspired Radio Raheem in Do The Right Thing then you'd know that he was both "inspired" (not sure if this is the right word) by the horrors of the past and is seeing history repeating in 2014 and 2020.
If I trust anyone to make these connections and try to educate the masses on this subject, it's Spike Lee.
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Review by Laura ★
Spike bro what the fuck
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Review by Reticent
ACAB.
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Review by danscannnn
i dunno man-- feels kinda awful rating this so low but like.. cmon spike.
not really something that i think ~needed~ to be made. i understand it as an exercise in juxtaposition-- art imitating life, life imitating art, life imitating life, etc.-- but this weirdly feels like it has more of an aesthetic focus than a political or social one, which is unfortunate.
ultimately gonna give spike the benefit of the doubt here bc it's spike. not a dude well known for self-moderation, but also one whose emotional earnestness & lack of restraint is what makes him such an unique & perennially relevant filmmaker. this feels like something that was slapped together & released to the world over an emotional weekend-- which it presumably was given that it dropped the weekend following floyd's murder-- but with little concern for how it might be viewed in hindsight. guess it's only appropriate that something so short-sighted & borderline-sensationalized would debut on cnn.
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Review by Lia 🦇
ACAB
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Review by Peter ★
(2/10)
Yeah, you can see how nothings changed, even in 20 years, but I feel like Spike Lee is just exploiting it at this point.
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Review by Jocelyn
ACAB
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Review by Bharg
this is not it
