Looking at the comments, some people complained about the stereotype of the South and the political correctness of racism. But living in the South, I would like to say that the obscenities of discrimination and segregation are vivid in the South. Some details in the movie really stuck to my heart. Although not as extreme as the plot, many very obscure facts really resemble the nature of certain people and things.
For example, the Mississippi police are arrogant and can't read Toni's last name and mocking gestures; and the sour and evil real face under the fake and friendly mask of the waiter in Birmingham. I have experienced too many such things in the South, and I will always look like an "Alien" in the eyes of mainstream white residents. South, deep south is really another world. It seems that the barrenness here is not like the United States in the movie. Black people love to eat fried chicken and drink watermelon juice. This is a very subtle stalk of racism. But you go to chikenfla and tenda chick to see where there are a few black people in the line. Apartheid still exists reasonably in Alabama. Even some Asians or Chinese people feel that there is nothing wrong with this. One of my white professors at the university, who couldn't read the names of Asian and Indian classmates during class roll call, joked that you can't choose an American name and then forcibly choose English names for your students. You walk on the street and go to a conservative community for a while. White people love to stare at your little yellow guy; these southern college students don’t like to deal with people of color very much, and they don’t care about what’s happening in the world, they just listen to their own. Country music runs its own tail gate. Southerners receive outsiders like the waiter in Birmingham. They are polite and seemingly warm and kind. Please tell me what you need, but please be reasonable.
Either be a desensitizer and can pretend that all non-existent lives. Or just flee.
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