Lost in The Jungle

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What's the message in Jungle Fever, director Spike Lee's new film about an interracial love affair? Not even the film's main players can agree:

Lonette McKee (who portrays the betrayed wife): "The message is, you've got to follow your heart and do what you want to do in love."

Spike Lee: "A lot of these relationships aren't based on love, but on sexual myths -- that the white woman is the epitome of beauty and that black males are sexual supermen."

Annabella Sciorra (Angie, the white mistress): "My character just happens to meet a black man. I don't think she goes out with him because he's black."

Wesley Snipes (Flipper, the black architect): "I think it's about how color- conscious this society really is."