Opinion on Spike Lee’s viewpoint                 Ayisha Audrain

Personally, I agree with Lee’s viewpoints because Django Unchained and Detroit are very serious and they do not have many positive or uplifting moments, this is because the directors had to default onto stereotypes instead of authentically showing the experiences of the people that they were representing. Lee’s films on the other hand, inject humor and levity into films that deal with otherwise heavy subject matter and he is able to do this because he has an innate understanding  of what it is like to be black in America and he understands what it is like to be black anywhere and that is why his movies resonate with me.

In addition, Lee is able to make his characters seem three – dimensional and he never resorts to stereotyping in his movies and this shows us that he is using his experiences in order to represent  the true experiences of African – Americans and Django Unchained and Detroit  neglect to do this  and they don’t properly represent black people.