If you’ve been following the news over the last week, it kinda feels like the country is on fire. With the arrival of the summer heat has also come a new wave of racial tensions, which have boiled over in violent and tragic ways. You may have thought it feels a little bit like the events in Spike Lee’s 1989 classic, Do the Right Thing. Lee not only agrees with you on that, he has made a short film about it.
Lee’s movie, 3 Brothers, draws comparisons to the real-life murders of Eric Garner and George Floyd with the fictional choking death of Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing. Like Raheem, Garner and Floyd had the life literally choked out of them by white cops.
It’s a powerful movie, and isn’t for the faint of heart. Footage from the deaths of Garner and Young are used, which is hard to watch even for the toughest of us. So just be prepared.
Lee has put his craft to good use over the last few weeks, droppin’ knowledge at a time when we need it most. His previous short, filmed while most of America was on lockdown, showed his beloved New York during the height of the coronavirus outbreak. He’s doing some of the best work of his career right now, and the timing couldn’t be better.
Lee’s next film, Da 5 Bloods, hits Netflix on June 12th.
3 Brothers-Radio Raheem, Eric Garner And George Floyd. pic.twitter.com/EB0cXQELzE
— Spike Lee (@SpikeLeeJoint) June 1, 2020
