Spike Lee review - Inside Man

3.  The characteristics of spike lee as a director that Hoberman is referring to are his integration of racially charged subject matter into his films.  Most of  Spike Lee’s other films have had to do with racism in some form or another, and this films seems to not fit that mold as much.  Even though the main plot of the story is not about racism, you can still find spike Lee’s voice in the film because there still is many instances of racial injustice portrayed. 

4.  Another point I could add to Hobermans list is that this film felt out of place for Spike as a director.  Hoberman mentioned this, but only briefly.  I really would not think that Spike Lee was behind this film if I hadn’t been told he was.  Looking closer at the film though there are little cues that are detectable that give away that the film is Spikes.  For example some of the camera work, the cast, and some of the plot are still very recognizable as Spike Lee. 

5.  Other outside sources on Spike say many of the same things that I and Hoberman have commented on.  Spike uses loud and in your face imagery and themes to get his points across.  The imagery is often bright colors that overlay a darker tone such as in Do The Right Thing.  The theme is usually based around racial injustice of some sort.  Even if all his movies don’t display these themes directly, you can find his flavor in each of his films if you look hard enough.  Source-Colin reeltalk.com