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Zelda 2022-02-16 08:03:04

This film is too painful, the protagonist's "no" from the bottom of his heart at the end is too painful. Although it is a very cliché segregation-themed film, a main line of the male and female protagonist and a side line of supporting actors and actresses, everyone wants to cross the barriers of skin color to pursue love freely, and finally succumb to the politics of skin color, but it does not hinder this film. Bright realism, depicting cruel reality is really eye-catching. One of the protagonists flirts with the car parked on the side of the road, and then the black male protagonist is arrested by the white police-this plot seems nothing new, but it is very shocking. The story is too real, the contradictions are very concentrated, and very realistic, and then the director expresses it with skillful audiovisual language. In addition to the theme of interracial love, it also involves issues of patriarchy, religion, and social pornography. The male protagonist went to the drug cave to find his elder brother. The photography was excellent: the wide-angle lens with cool blue tone and the backlit drug addict made people feel dizzy and suffocated. At the end of the dream scene is also very delicate, it is a subtle psychology of the male protagonist. The space for the story to occur is also limited to specific (two) blocks like "As It Should Be", which can not only integrate the story, but also see the big from the small. The only shortcoming is that I feel that the film wants to explore a lot of social issues, and the director wants to express a lot of views. Therefore, various social issues are displayed unevenly and slightly messy.

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  • Onie 2022-03-21 09:02:49

    3.5 The mutual attraction between the interracial men and women at the heart of the film is completely unconvincing. It seems that the director is just using the relationship as a starting point and an excuse to explore the topic of apartheid (some of the dialogue is extremely honest and thorough), and the various characters surrounding the lovers.

  • Antonina 2022-03-25 09:01:16

    Spike Lee brings together two very different themes, but never finds a good connection (especially at the end), there are some good points of view in the film, but as a whole, the film The internal fragmentation is still too serious.

Jungle Fever quotes

  • Lucinda Purify: What happened to the color TV?

    Gator Purify: Mama, I smoked the color TV!

  • Gator Purify: I swear before God... and four more white people! This is the last time!