Do The Right Thing - Parker Sealy

Pino is a character that represents the racist person. He cannot stand the blacks in this film and gives off the feeling that he only accepts his race and his kind. It isn’t just that the blacks are unable to reason with, it is that Pino doesn’t give them a chance. This contributes to the film because he is one of the contributors to the climax of the film. He is one to start the uproar. Even though his dad is the one to officially initiate it, Pino is the one that represents what begins the fight: misunderstandings outside of race. Pino’s values make the film take a dramatic turn for the worst as everyone goes crazy killing, setting the place on fire, and so on. There isn’t really a way to see his point of view because this film is designed to get us thinking about racial tension that results in violence and he is all about the violence and promoting it. There are ways of understanding most of the characters points of views but it is hard to see Pino’s point of view. He just wants to get out of there. The only possible understanding of his perspective could be that he fears the unknown such as the black race. He wants to be in the comfort of his own culture surrounded by things he knows but he is forced to mingle with a different society. That is understandable but it is still not the way to go about adapting to change. Pino is one of the violence initiators and in that case, contributes to the whole theme of the film, which is more of a thought. It gets the audience thinking about violence between the races, it gets us thinking about race and about violence and about how to solve it and what to do next. I would say that it isn’t so much a central theme but just an opinion piece that allows for interpretation.