Bamboozled Movie Analysis

“Bamboozled” response paper by G.Szner “Bamboozled” written and directed by Spike Lee is an outstanding movie describing a problem of racial injustice in the United States. I can say so because while watching it, I felt constantly anxious and interested about what was going on screen. All of the characters in “Bamboozled” were amazingly grotesque, and that was why I had to be more cautious to grasp the essence of the picture. The protagonist of the movie, Pierre Delacroix (whose real name is Peerless Dothan), is a well-educated and intelligent African American working for a television company as a screenwriter. Even though he is somehow successful, he’s also dissatisfied with his job, or rather – his employer. Dunwitty, a white senseless
As he decides, he initiates his plan with help of his co-worker, Sloan Hopkins. The plan was to create “Mantan: The New Millenium Minstrel Show”, in which two African Americans were to perform racist jokes in blackface. I think it was both risky and courageous of Pierre to execute such a plan. It was also ruthless and smart of him to outwit his supervisor. Later on, as we continue to watch the film, we can see that Delacroix succeed in putting his show on air, but surprisingly… not only his racially confused boss Dunwitty, but also entire audience are delighted with the show. Either the male or the female, the white or the black, the young or the old – all of them were extraordinarily charmed. In my opinion, with this picture Spike Lee presented the condition of contemporary human being as corrupted, polluted. We can observe as many TV shows as never before, and still – the numbers of the phenomenon grows increasingly alarming. In fact, what’s the most alarming is that people are not aware of value of art as we are overwhelmed with colorful TV commercials and mind-numbing TV programmes, which were supposed to make us, the people,