Just finished I'm A Virgo - which was awesome - and couldn't help but think of Spike Lee's seemingly incoherent ideology and how, while Boots continues to release bangers, Spike shills crypto.
Admittedly, I have only seen two of Spike Lee's "social" movies, Do The Right Thing (which I really didn't "get" - please chime in if you can clarify) and Bamboozled (which I thought was poignant but a bit heavy handed and nihilistic). It appears to me that Spike Lee grasps the racial inequities in American society, but doesn't grasp the greater dimensions - he's trapped in, or has fallen into the trap of, detached liberalism.
I could be way off base here, so I hope y'all can offer some illumination - it seems like the crucial difference between Spike and Lee is that Boots has read theory.
Thoughts?
I'll be real with you. I kept confusing Spike Lee with Stan Lee and I kept wondering 'since when were you nerds marvel fans'
That's funny, because I'm A Virgo really addresses US obsession with comic-book narratives. But similarly I think, Stan Lee made (or stole) characters that presented critiques of US culture, but always in a lib-brained restricted way.
Casting Professor X as the good guy and Magneto as the badguy is peak "This is your brain on Liberalism".
I used to mix up Spike Lee and Spike Jonez. I was like no way the guy who made Malcolm X made Yeah Right too
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