Do the Right Thing

*I saw it but didn't believe it; I didn't believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together? Together are we gonna live?* Shed a quick tear thinking about how grateful I am that I got to watch this film in a cinema. Had to rock my Spizikes for this one! Widely regarded as Spike Lee's magnum opus (though in my eyes Malcolm X is still his greatest), damn does it feel fantastic to finally watch one of my favourite films from my favourite ever director in a cinema as it was meant to be. New Farm played the beautiful 4K transfer available commercially on Criterion's Blu-ray and Universal's 4K BD release. By far the best way to experience the film, Ernest Dickerson's already enchanting film imagery is given new life with the more faithful to source colour grade in this remaster. For any fellow 4K collectors, please take my word when I say Do the Right Thing is one of the most stunning discs you can get. I will now move on and pester New Farm Cinemas about screening any selection of Malcolm X, Bamboozled, He Got Game, She's Gotta Have It, School Daze or even Inside Man. But especially Malcolm X. And if they do, they better play that shit at like 2pm! Screening came at the perfect time. It's sweltering outside this year, and a film set on the hottest day of the summer feels appropriate. It's still not even the aspect of this film that rings truest to this current moment in history. What times we do live in. You and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.