If there was no such epidemic, what would be the hottest news for movie fans these days?
Of course it was the Cannes Film Festival.
I remember that when Spike Lee was officially announced as the chairman of the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, domestic netizens made "politically correct comments."
The first time I heard that Spike Lee’s name was at the Oscars in 2019, his "Black Party" won the best original screenplay award.
First of all, I would like to declare that I like the movie "Black Party Members" very much.
The following awards were announced one after another, and "Green Book" finally won the crown of best film.
Spike Lee dismissed the biggest winner "Green Book" after the ceremony.
At that time, I took this director for granted as "Lemon Essence".
Until I watched black films and ethnic films directed by him, I took back what I said.
Spike Lee, Hollywood's most famous black director.
As a black director, his black films and racial films are more real.
Therefore, in addition to Oscar, he is also popular at the three major film festivals, especially Cannes.
Spike Lee’s "Black Party" has won the Cannes Jury Prize;
Before that, he had a movie. Although he didn't win the Palme d'Or or the jury awards, at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie did not attract much attention.
This film is "Jungle Fever" nominated in the main competition unit of the 44th Cannes Film Festival in 1991.
The protagonists of the movie are black Flip and white Angie.
The two work in a company, and they are in love each other.
When Angie's father learned that his daughter had sex with a black man, he was furious, beat Angie and went out;
Flip's parents are pastors, not as rude as Angie's father. But the literati had the way of the literati. At the banquet, Flip's father had a word, so Angie could not get off the stage.
Many people think that racial discrimination in the United States is only white against blacks, but they do not know that blacks are also the same with whites.
The two were still together under the pressure around them. At that time, they believed that love could conquer everything.
But in one night, the two men clamored in the city, but they attracted the police.
Almost, Flip became the ghost of the police.
The two were in love to the death, but the people around them were incompatible, and the relationship between the two was nearly broken.
When Flip broke up, he said this to Angie:
"Love can conquer everything, it will only appear in Disney movies."
Dreams are full, reality is very skinny.
In the end, Flip returned to his family, Angie and himself joined in and reconciled. All this is like a dream, leaving only the touch after waking up.
"Jungle Fever" is very different from "Green Book".
If you are in the role of a bystander, watching movies like "Green Book" is certainly pleasing to the eye.
But after a thorough understanding of American ethnic culture, you will find that "Green Book" is just a bowl of chicken soup.
Most people in real life are like the people in "Jungle Fever".
After all, racism in the United States began at the end of the 19th century and has been up to the present for more than 200 years.
Frozen three feet is not a day's cold, if you want to freeze, will it take another 200 years?
We Chinese have never experienced such dark moments as racial discrimination, so we take it for granted that everything about "black people" is politically correct.
Spike Lee’s movies never shy away from the evil of black people.
As a black director, he is well aware of the personality, education level and environment of blacks.
So in his movies, blacks are domineering, idle, and troublesome.
Someone’s attitude towards blacks deteriorated further after watching his movie.
For example, under the page of his movie "As It Should Be", there is such a comment:
"A group of people who don't read books, get drunk and go crazy, and then they take to the street when they are 20 years old and ask,'Why don't you give me a job?'"
The three blacks in "As It Should Be".
One carries a big loudspeaker all day and disturbs the people everywhere;
A person who insisted on hanging the head of a black man in a pizza restaurant in Italy;
One took other people's wages, but didn't take care of it, and finally smashed the boss's shop.
Indeed, I was really angry just after watching this movie, but when I think about it, things are not that simple.
I compare black Americans to rural Chinese.
There are two very different views on rural people in China.
Some people think that the rural people are kind and honest; some people say that "the poor mountains and the bad rivers come out of the people".
Most of the people who hold the former idea are people in the city. They may have been in the countryside for a short period of time, so they have this idea;
Most of the latter's followers are people who have gone out of the countryside. They grew up in Sri Lanka, so they know exactly what kind of people the rural people are.
There are many realist-themed films in China that are about "the poor and the bad rivers come out of the people".
"The Devil Is Coming", "Tengu", "Blind Mountain", "Bachelor" and so on.
After watching this type of movie, people will demonize rural people for granted.
actually not.
"Poor mountains and evil waters come out of the people", this is a phenomenon, what is behind this phenomenon?
What does "poor mountains and evil waters" represent? The material basis is poor.
How can we "know etiquette" when the material foundation is not guaranteed?
Therefore, what we should talk about is "why poor mountains and bad waters create unruly people" instead of blindly emphasizing "poverty mountains and bad waters create unruly people".
The same goes for black Americans.
The audience only saw the evil of blacks in the movie, and did not delve into what lies behind the evils of blacks.
The living environment of the black people, the family status of the black people, the education level of the black people, the educational resources of the black people, the legal rights of the black people, and so on.
These are all problems.
If you don’t look at Spike Lee, you don’t know what the life of black people is like.
Regardless of Spike Lee, you never know how severe the division of American society is;
If you don't look at Spike Lee, you will never understand the racial divide in the United States!
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