Fence is a book created by August Wilson for the stage play. The film is a new work by Denzel Washington, who won the Oscar for best actress twice, nine years later. He put his Broadway stage play "Fence" on the big screen in 2010, and invited Viola Davis, who worked with the original stage play, to star with him. After the release, the North American box office results were mediocre, only $55,101,969. The scoring results on the three major scoring websites are divided into two camps for professional film critics and ordinary audiences. It has to be said that the barrier is a high-quality film that requires a certain threshold of appreciation.
There is no doubt that Fence is an excellent stage play. But the performance on the big screen seems to be a bit blunt, the most important point is that the "transformation of the script structure" is not enough. August Wilson passed away in 2005, and Denzel Washington as a director did not thoroughly transform the script. The film lines are lengthy, the actors' dialogue is too patterned, and some performances have larger body movements, the scenes are relatively single, and the limitations of space make the movie seem dull. It can be said that the traces of the fenced stage play have become a flaw for the audience to jump the show.
It can be said that Denzel Washington as a director failed in the transformation of the script!
Fortunately, Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, who won this year’s Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Supporting Actress,’s performances are simply wonderful, especially Viola Davis’s performance in the fence. It was explosive, and it is hard to imagine that she gave this virtuous and kind black woman a multi-angle and deep role positioning. But the title of a mere best female matchmaker is really a bit unwilling! I really think that this year's best heroine should be Viola Davis or Hupel.
2 High-minded, with a strong political attitude, and vigorously fought back against the evils of the "apartheid" era
August Wilson's works describe the struggle of American blacks for the awakening of self-consciousness and the exploration of cultural roots. In order to show the panorama of black life in the 20th century, Wilson arranged the time background of each of his plays in each different decade.
However, because of poverty and low education level, black people must rely on white employment again in order to survive economically. Especially when the federal army withdrew from the south, black people lost the protection of federal law, and their status was similar to that before the American Civil War. situation.
When the U.S. Supreme Court made the "Plessy v. Ferguson" judgment in 1896, establishing the legality of the "segregated but equal" measures against blacks, it dealt a serious blow to the human rights of southern blacks. The "segregation" part was implemented very thoroughly, but the "equality" part was not. This led to more segregation laws in the south, and even the segregation system was adopted in factories, schools, hospitals, and the military.
The time background of the barrier was set in 1957, which was in the American civil rights movement, which was a mass movement of black Americans against apartheid and discrimination and fighting for democratic rights after the Second World War. This period of history began in the 1950s and ended in the 1970s. It was a mass struggle for African American civil rights through non-violent protest actions. In the film, this great contradiction has almost become the main theme of the plot structure. Except for the protagonist Troy’s saying that he hurt his son in the mouth: "Those white people will not let you play, you have to get a position among them, you must be more than ten times better than them."; The brain was seriously injured and turned into a "stupid". Troy hated the inhumanity of the government for giving black soldiers the post-war care...
I personally feel that many people define barriers as a drama about the relationship between father and son. In fact, I don’t think that is the case at all, because the relationship between father and son, husband and wife, friends, etc. is complicated and interspersed. The experience of being oppressed in time!
At the end of the film, the camera sweeps the walls of the Troy house. In addition to paintings representing Catholicism, there are two people who have made outstanding contributions to the black affirmative movement: former US President John F. Kennedy and black leader Martin Luther King.
Regarding the suffering of the nation, any kind of persecution is the destruction of human nature. After ten years of turmoil, we still record the young people who were delayed by the times in the 60s and 70s in the pen and ink of scar literature for some time. The era of back to the fence is the same. The persecution of black youths in the era of apartheid permeated the bones of the bones.
3 Te Luoyi not a "bastard", but his life is in harm Troy often pop out of the mouth of "nigger" is extremely insulting words against blacks, Troy often used to banter with friends and child abuse, indicating that this era The words are often talked about by people, which implies that society's unfair treatment of black groups is not only a question of social resource allocation, but even contempt from the definition of personality.
In 19454, the appearance of Brown v. Topeka Education Bureau also marked that the right of black people to receive education was also restricted by the apartheid policy. The lack of education rights caused the entire black group to enter a vicious circle. In the dilemma, unable to step into the upper class, can only do the lower class work forever. Troy’s childhood dream of baseball was shattered by the values of this society. In a helpless situation, crime became Troy’s fate in order to survive.
Troy in the backyard and his son had two particularly exciting rivalries: the first time was sawing wood before repairing the fence, and the father and son worked together to prepare materials. Troy's reprimanding of his son was mocking and joking. It is a sharpening to drill into the upper class is a waste of time, it is better to learn some skills to settle down and survive. You know, in 1946, the American Baseball Organization stipulated that black players were only allowed to play in the Black Baseball League. In addition, there was an album movie "Legend No. 42" which was adapted from the real deeds of black baseball player Jackie Robinson. It tells the story of the first black player in the history of Major League Baseball who endured racial discrimination on the court. pressure. The second scene was a fight between father and son in the backyard. In this episode, Denzel Washington dedicated his super-high-level performance. The control of the dramatic tension made this performance the climax of the whole film.
Therefore, the Troy in the movie is one of a large number of marginalized black groups who are gifted but unwilling. He lives in poverty, but he knows how to take care of the family, and he also educates his son to know how to take care of her girlfriend. Although he embezzled his brother’s government pension to buy real estate for his family, he did not take care of the mentally retarded brother. On the contrary, it can be said to be meticulous. Take care; although there are problems in his private life, he understands that he must bear the guardianship of his lover's orphan (illegitimate daughter)...
Troy is a person at the bottom of society. If something really seems inferior, but we can’t separate him from his time and environment, and stand on the moral high ground to criticize him for something, but his life is like At the end of the movie, the youngest son and the illegitimate daughter of his father, who have not yet met, sat in the backyard and hummed Troy’s song to sum up his tragic life: "I have a dog named blue. Waiting quietly for me to come back. I buried my body after Blue's death, and he slept with me every night, Blue died like a dog, and went to its promised land."
The movie has a detached ending. Troy's younger brother told his relatives that he would wake up St. Peter and open the door to heaven for Troy. After stroking the horn in his hand several times, there was a loud sound, a breeze blew, the wooden door between the fences swayed, a piece of sky light was opened between the clouds, and a meter of warm sun poured down, filling the corner of the backyard surrounding the fence. , Depending on this time, everything is as beautiful as the grace that St. Peter promised to the world. Fences have isolated American society from residential areas. Even though the isolation system has been abolished on the road, the imprint of the times is terrible and profound. It cannot remove the barriers built in people's hearts. I hope that in the theme music "God's Closet" (God's Closet) composed by Marcelo Zarvos, the old Troy can step out of his barriers and enjoy equality in heaven.
4 best performing Viola Davis
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, who played the role of the couple, have already won the Best Actress Award in this awards season, as well as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards and the American Golden Globe Awards. Affirmation of performance. Throughout the performance, Denzel Washington's "talk show" with a series of dialogues did not make it difficult for Viola to enter the scene. On the contrary, her non-stop convergent performances, all the way to the bursting performances, are amazing, perfectly showing the image of a typical housewife who has accompanied 18 years of virtuous and kind-hearted housewives. In the game against Denzel Washington, Troy's emotions erupted at the moment when he "surrendered" to Rose, as if Ola Davis personally experienced it. I have always felt that the role of Rose is the heroine, why always win the award for the actress, and this kind of proficient acting skills can definitely be compared with the nominee of the Oscar for best actress.
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