Spike Lee’s latest is a seriously challenging movie with such a ridiculous premise and caricatured characters that I didn’t believe a moment of it. That’s not to say I didn’t like it. In “Do the Right Thing,” one of my faves of all time, Spike shows us that race relations are anything but black and white, and that there is a lot of gray. In “Bamboozled,” everything IS black and white and he beats you over the head with his point. And keeps beating you. Again and again. And then it gets worse. It’s wicked, hardcore satire. And I can’t stop thinking about it. Very angry, but consistently unforgettable.
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