Willing to use movies to shoot an ordinary person's life, this is a rare subject. The protagonist has no ups and downs in life legends, earth-shattering heroic deeds, the whole story is just the frustration, pain, confusion and reconciliation that an ordinary person will encounter in his life. To find the special character of the protagonist is nothing more than that he is a black man and has experienced a complete period of the American civil rights movement. But in fact, if you are a white man, the film can still be filmed. The protagonist lost his father at a young age, and became a waiter by himself. He went to work in a high-end hotel in Washington, and was favored by the White House. Since then, he has become a waiter in the White House. For his profession, he has undoubtedly embarked on a peak. With his own strength, he made the whole family well clothed. He wants his children to study hard and find a decent job in the future. But the eldest son took a path he couldn't understand after he was in college, working hard for the blacks to obtain equal rights. That period of history was the golden age of the civil rights movement in the United States. Blacks rushed out of the isolation system and tried to get equal treatment with whites in all aspects. However, it is difficult for ordinary whites to accept that the blacks who they regard as the lower races are equal to them, so collisions between whites and blacks occur everywhere in the country. The eldest son of the protagonist shouted everywhere, hit walls everywhere, and was arrested everywhere in this movement. The protagonist was very confused. As a result, the grievances between father and son that lasted for decades have arisen. As a result, the originally warm family has begun to have gaps, and the incomprehension and resentment between husband and wife have also begun to appear. The tired protagonist listens to the politicians' political strategizing in the White House every day. He doesn't quite understand the relationship between these distant politicians and himself, just as ordinary people think that politics has nothing to do with them. In fact, politics is closely related to each of us, and the fate of ordinary people is even determined by those politics. Isn't it? From the number of children studying, working, buying a house, or having children, which one is not determined by seemingly distant policies? Don't say you don't care about politics, you don't care about it, it will affect your life. The protagonist’s seemingly ordinary conversations with the president many times actually have inextricably influenced the introduction of policies. The protagonist does not seem to support his child's involvement in the civil rights movement, but the incidents he encountered such as wage inequality and cars being smashed and looted have also shaken the faith of this man who has always believed that the United States is changing. Gradually, he still saw a change. After several years of hard work, his salary was finally the same as that of the white man. He was invited by the president’s wife to attend the state banquet with his wife. In the end, he reconciled with his son because he saw that because The number of people who have sons for ten years is the seemingly ethereal
The film's narrative is very plain, and it portrays the confusion and pain of an ordinary person very deeply. In fact, the audience does not want to watch those big scenes, those so-called big productions. The lasting power of the visual shock is very short-lived, and only those movies that focus on the individual and bring the soul to the person will have the lasting attraction.
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