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Its his fiction; its not life.
He should be free to be dangerous.
But Lee hasnt worked coherently.
The end of this movie is a shambles, and if some audiences go wild, hes partly responsible.
Lee wants to rouse people, to wake them up.
But to do what?
The end of the movie is an open embrace of futility.
Black teenagers wont find it so hard, though.
Like Sal, the pizza-store owner.
It is, both at its best and at its worst, very much a movie of these times.
But how could he?
The black community has been struggling for years to reconcile those two philosophies.
He doesnt deal in generalities.
The movie is packed with idiosyncratic detail of character and event, sometimes very funny and sometimes breathtakingly crude.
Lee does, at times, paint with a very broad brush.
Those articles say more about their authors than about the movie.
Roger Ebert,ChicagoSun-Times
