"the integration is always more difficult than the separation, As always to hate is always easier than to love." Smart
's above quote is what I quickly remembered after the two-hour movie screening. Feelings below. What I want to ask again is, is the life story played in the movie a reality that is unknown to the public? Or are we still accustomed to making common cultural issues such as class and race once again become the daily consumption of film adaptations and the means of operation to help American capitalist Hollywood run the film industry? The second question is whether the issues of ethnic conflict and the gap between the rich and the poor still persist in other worlds? Neither of these issues can be discussed and examined clearly in a short comment. However, it is certain that these conditions still exist in our daily life, and through movies and mass media, the form of mass media continues to bring shocks and prompts to the audience. I remember that when discussing American contemporary film as a research course on film history, the teacher reminded us repeatedly that the reason why American films continue to be watched and recognized by the general public is that they recreate everyday trivial matters that we are accustomed to, and transform them into repeated Three wonderful myths that seem to be novel, but these myths are an important reason to restrain the audience from thinking and reflecting on problems. This is also the main argument for the distaste of American cinema due to personal subjective factors. The two-and-a-half-hour movie is not too short at all, but it seems to solve a real problem that has not been solved in fact. We must once again question how many people in the world are still unaware that the racial and ethnic antagonisms that are common in immigrant societies continue to occur. And in such a real situation, there is still no effective solution that can be solved. How can a Hollywood film transform the history of racial confrontation and personal life experience into an effective and easy-to-communicate visual language in just two hours? To deceive mainstream social audiences, ethnic antagonisms and class issues, purely belong to the life experience of individual characters? Such logic and narrative methods are undoubtedly worthy of severe criticism and accusations. Aside from the fact that the film itself is adapted from the text of the novel as the premise of the story, what kind of message does the story convey by reflecting on the society represented by the film?
First, I don't agree that the question of class revolution and race, precisely, can be as satisfying as the film's perfect ending. It should be a serious subject that is continually questioned and introspected. Third, the life experience of the characters is not enough to support the entire story text, as an endorsement for describing ethnic antagonisms and class issues. This is undoubtedly the equivalent labeling and classification of all characters with skin color differences. In fact, there is no shortage of wealthy and high-status people who are not white-skinned in American society. The second thing that can be discussed is, have white people become rescue heroes again in the movie? Have you successfully shaped the protagonist of the mythology in the story to save the world or solve the problem of ethnic opposition? It must be noted that in the ideology of the film, unconsciously, we begin to identify with the protagonist (the only protagonist in the film who saves the world from opposition and sacrifices himself to become the image of suffering) incarnates as the only person who solves practical problems and is different from social reality. Method. At the same time, you have to fight against the values of the whole society by sacrificing your own emotional life! What a great sentiment this is! Almost became another Joan of Arc.
Ironically, in actual society, such suffering heroes are really rare, especially in Taiwanese society. There is no need to talk about the antagonism of race and class. People of the same race and ethnic group have already fought to the death, and they cannot tolerate it and the infighting is very serious! This can easily be explained by looking at the political struggles of the entire nation's recent history. This movie is a utopian and ridiculous myth that successfully experimented with ethnic integration in high school classes! Incredibly, it is the question of "class" rather than race or colour that may be so ingrained that it cannot be resolved.
We must admit that within the framework of American capitalism/individualism, class is invisible and cannot be easily overthrown, and all human problems are entangled in the history of class struggle. In order to become a high-ranking person, one must climb the other, that is, by means of "means", to the upper class of society. Obviously, using this kind of life experience of worship to show the serious issue of ethnic integration may quite make the public with indigestion more accepting and moving. However, who is unaware of the actual existence of classes? Could human civilization be advanced enough not to judge others by their skin color, enough to be a symbol of peace? Or is it possible that the fact that Obama has become president of the United States can also be used as a cover for class issues? This is nothing but the most disgusting and hopeless experience of watching American movies. After watching the movie, the audience really thinks that the issue of ethnicity has been completely tolerated and accepted by the pluralistic society! I really misunderstood that through the exchange of real life experience, we can better understand and accept the differences of others. We still need to work hard! Marx was talking about a class revolution, a never-ending cycle of struggle. Because of the existence of human nature, we are always willing to believe that there is a better way of life, or a social situation similar to utopia: everyone loves each other, stays at home at night, lives and works in peace and contentment, and even performs their own duties, but the movie once again lied to the public through the story. . What the author wants to say here is that the movie is over, should we wake up too?
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