![]() To qualify this argument: Spike Lee is a unique visionary, a voice in cinema so far unmatched, and a perfect director. He’s a figure that has picked up the unbelievably difficult torch of being the Voice of All Black People in America–even though he doesn’t necessarily speak for all of them.īut to hell with racial labels: he’s a brilliant director who has a gift for creating indelible images and can move a story forward with urgency and pace and visual finesse that’s a rare find, no matter their race. ![]() He’s a director that will eagerly make the kind of films that most directors will squirm away from. Spike Lee is the truth of the American Dream: an artist that can speak truth to power without seeming a hypocrite. It’s important a director like Spike Lee exists to put into words and images the frustrations that the great masses are unable to communicate or else articulate to a larger audience. His work is fast-moving, sharp, and hard-hitting. His movies examine race relations, the black community, how media functions in America, crime and poverty in the city, and politics in general in the US. ![]() He’s fierce, unapologetic, and touches raw nerves in his work about the problematic social arrangement between the races and classes in America through the eyes of not just a black man but as an incisive director and documentarian. Spike Lee not only encapsulates the Black American experience but uses the medium of film to call out the hypocrisies within United States society and the racial, political, and sexual tensions just simmering beneath the surface. ![]()
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