Examples Of Ambiguity In Do The Right Thing

Do the Right Thing is a film that challenges the concept of morality. As the name suggests, many of the characters in it struggle to figure out what the right thing is. The film leaves it as ambiguous to what the right thing is. And because there were so many different people trying to figure out what it meant to do the right thing, everyone arrived at different conclusions to what it is. The answer to how Mookie knows what the right thing is is that he really does not know. Throughout the film, the audience sees him struggle between morality, and he does not seem to make a decision on what the right thing is. The ambiguity of this film’s assessment of what is right and what is wrong is intentional. It wanted the audience to derive their own conclusions about who was doing the right thing. A person could spend all day trying to find reasoning for and against what Mookie did to Sal’s window, but it is very much up to the individual viewer to decide. The morality of this action is way too vague to get a definite answer. A viewer of this movie is forced to make an opinion as to who was at fault that may differ from others, and this means that Spike Lee has created great question that will puzzle people way after this film was made. He made people realize that …show more content…
This included what the right thing truly was as many of the events that happened cannot have one determination on who was right. To add to this already ambiguous nature of the film, the viewers have to question their own thoughts on morality as it provides scenes so ambiguous that the right thing cannot be determined by a viewer. This film left many of the characters in it, including Mookie, to have multiple views on the right thing. They clash on what it is and this makes them angry with one another. This film’s main purpose was to have everyone in and out of the film to think of the right thing in a more ambiguous