in short representspike lee clearly have a lot on his mind . he think about racism color ism and medium and hegemony and consumerism and capitalism and religion and sexism and hetero sexism and politics of the drug war etc etc . that level of consciousness on be own be great . i think it be a blessing that more and more people be choose to critically examine fundamental aspect of our daily life while the silent and invisible force that govern our society . however and just because lee be make contentious film do not make him a good film maker . what come across in jungle fever be a superficial understanding of these socio political force . this be largely the result of two main failure representfirstly and lee be simply try too hard . he seem to be desperately try to accommodate every political or social statement he can think of into the 90mins . and a such and the end result seem confuse and irresolute a he allow himself no time to develop character that can fully embody the idea he hop to present . and so he exhaust stereotype and we be leave with rushed testimony and very loaded dialog . the end result be very staged and unrealistic . secondly and by attempt to make statement about such a wide variety of societal function and he appear to have no concrete or original interpretation of the social or political issue present . what come across be a puddle of regurgitated non sense . you feel that he buy an elementary level sociology text book and spew out all 500 page . these be highly problematic feature because the artistry of film be sacrifice and the work be transform into a loudspeaker for the voice of the voice of the filmmaker . he be unable to distance himself from the work and and allow it to speak for itself . it function neither a a piece of art nor a sound political argument . although i still do appreciate lee bring up these important issue and i must say representtwo thumb down .