Introduction
This is a review paper about the movie “Jungle fever”. This review paper interprets the film in another light other than the interpretation offered by Spike Lee that Jungle Fever is simply the result of people from different races succumbing to curiosity, but that the end result will always be problematic.
Discussion
The film portrays a different theme of racism. Throughout the movie, the theme of racism recurs in almost every scene. A number of examples throughout the movie can support this argument. For example, when flipper a happily married black architect has affair with his Italian-American secretary Angie, everything tumbles down. His wife, Drew founds out about the affair and throws him out of their marital home. When Angie tells her friends about the affair, they react in shock to hear he is having an affair with an African-American man. Angie’s father brutally beats her up when she finds out about the affair with Flipper. She leaves home. Drew, Flipper’s wife, has an intense argument with a group of her black women friends when they get together. They lament the fact that so many of black men betray them and settle with white women.
This racial hatred is further illustrated When Flipper takes Angie for dinner, at his parent’s home. His father although being a Baptist minister, calls her a "whoremonger”. The staff at a restaurant also ignores flipper and Angela. When he complains about not being served, the waitress lashes out on him for dating a white woman. One day while they are strolling down the street, and joking around, Flipper forces himself on to her. The police on seeing this, approaches them thinking he is raping her. Angie tells them that Flipper is her boyfriend; the police threaten to have their badges confiscated.
Conclusion:
In conclusion other than the interpreted offered by spike lee, the film can be interpreted in various forms and racism really stands out. Another theme that is brought out by Gator is family breakdown and drug abuse among the youth.
