Do The Right Thing - Film Review 1. What were the feelings of the people in the neighborhood for the Korean grocers? Discuss with specific comments from the movie.

2. Do the Right Thing was a pretty intense movie. Give some examples of comic relief that Spike Lee used to “lighten up” the movie.

3. In many films that we watch and stories that we read, we see characters “growing” throughout their experiences. Does anyone “grow” in this movie? Why or why not? How so?

4. Lee ends with two quotations, one from Martin Luther King Jr., advocating non-violence, and the other from Malcolm X, advocating violence “if necessary”. What do you feel that Spike Lee is trying to say by ending the film in this manner?

5. “Da Mayor” tells Mookie to “always do the right thing”. Even though “getting paid” was the most important thing to Mookie, he started the riot that destroys the place he works. Do you think Spike Lee felt that Mookie was doing the right thing?

6. Comment on the main female characters in the movie (Tina, Mother Sister, and Jade). What is their role in the movie?

7. Do you think that Sal should have had to hang some pictures of African American heroes in his pizzeria? Why or why not? Explain your viewpoint.

8. Do you think the movie has a heroic character in it? If yes, who is that character? Why do you feel they are heroic? If not, why not? What would be the point of not having a hero?

Explanation:

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answer; i believe that the correct answer is rapid and subsequently slow down;

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.