Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing compared to Chi-Raq and The Best Man

'Do the Right Thing' and Chi-Raq' are both films made by director Spike Lee, both contain similar themes of race and poverty but their messages are quite different as while DTRT has a strong focus on racism and class; CR places it's importance on an attempt at feminism but fails to understand the true meaning of it, taking on a more generic stereotyped approach rather than DTRT which takes the stereotypes and shows how we incorporate them ourselves in our own lives.

As a film CR is not entirely without fault as visually it is stunning, similar to DTRT which can be exceptionally brightly coloured at many times throughout it's run, as well. Yet CR has a much lighter tone despite the dark situation behind the comedy in which the crime rate in Chicago has reached levels where it is comically referred to as 'Chi-Raq' a conjunction of the state of Chicago and the country of Iraq - a war torn country in the middle east. The title itself dictates the situation