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In School Daze, Spike Lee takes aim at an important issue at American culture and effectively paints the portrait of a worst possible scenario. He asks his audience to wake up
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Hayley Henry University Honors 257 Dr. Maland February 17, 2006 Dual Controversy in School Daze The aim of any film is to combine narrative and cinematic style to communicate meanings and evoke emotions within its audience. Spike Lee successfully complies with this goal by making the viewers of School Daze feel as if they are getting a true glimpse of the lives of the young African American college students presented. The film depicts two major problems: the struggles of African American students not only in America, but also within their own campus and social structures. Lee reveals these troubles, and thus the ultimate concern of the film, through an intricate plot dealing with the relationships between the characters and their surroundings. Lee opens the film with a photo montage depicting the African and African American struggle in the United States, starting with slave ships and moving through the civil rights movement. Everyone in the...
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