The Korean Shopkeeper: Movie Analysis

The movie revolves around a black neighborhood and a pizza shop in Brooklyn.

There is no main character as of such, the movie documents the life of different

people in the neighborhood like a guy named Mookie, the owner of the pizzeria

Sal, his sons, an old drunk man The Mayor, an old lady who sits on the stoop of

her apartment , a bunch of black friends who sit across the street where the

Pizzeria is, a Korean Shopkeeper and a guy called Radio Raheem who keeps

walking around with his radio playing Rap on his radio. The movie deals with the

tension between these people from different races the Italian, the Blacks and the

Korean Shopkeeper. It is mostly shot around these two places, the Pizzeria, the

street where all the blacks