Although the era and historical background in this movie are completely different from our current environment, this wonderful story of the success of ordinary people's counterattacks is adapted from real people and brings us a lot of practical thinking and reference value.
Bernard, the black male protagonist played by "New Captain America", grew up as a shoe shiner. Through his cleverness, ambition, and prudence, he persevered step by step across the poor to become a real estate agent, and then to a banker who was overwhelming. As a revolutionary who changed the chapter of history, the rhythm of the whole story is controlled naturally and smoothly, and the casting is also successful. The cynical and sophisticated black big brother, the fledgling but ambitious black investment guy, and the "silly white sweet" white blue-collar guy who seems to be simple and easy to manipulate but have ghosts, all show their personal characteristics, making this true story. Lively restored and fascinating.
So, returning to the practical reference that this story brings us, what kind of effort does an ordinary person or the bottom of society who were born in poverty want to make a cross-class counterattack?
1 Knowing that I am at an overwhelming disadvantage, I still know how to persevere and keep my intelligence, caution and spirit.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the problem of discrimination against black Americans was serious. When the male protagonist proposed his own real estate investment plan, he was not only ridiculed by his father-in-law, but also hindered by various groups of people in society (such as not being able to make an appointment for bank loans, and not seeing the bank at all. Manager, withstand malicious complaints from white tenants, unfriendly enquiries from the police, etc.),
Ordinary people may give up and accept the injustices of reality, but the male protagonist did not. He managed to stay smart at all times-the male protagonist was particularly sensitive to numbers since he was a child, and he secretly wrote down the customer's business secrets about investment when he was a child's shoe polisher. The calculation of various investment yields is clear in mind.
Be cautious and do everything step by step-the bank manager refuses to see him, so he buys the entire building that is a bank investment company. Buying the building is equivalent to infiltrating all these banking companies, and can keep abreast of the latest real estate market conditions and their internal rules of the game.
Maintain moderate ambitions-after buying a white bank building, continue to expand their real estate investment territory, use the first-hand information obtained by the white bank to continue to buy white communities, until they have more than 100 real estate investment
2. After you taste the sweetness of your first success, don't be blindly arrogant, give in when you understand, and don't expose yourself to possible risks.
After accomplishing something, people are very arrogant and swollen. The black male protagonist Bernard knows how to avoid risks and hide behind the scenes. In the movie, he and the black big brother Joe find a white guy who seems to be trustworthy to show their faces. Their spokesperson asked him to deal with white interest groups, minimizing all kinds of discrimination and unfair treatment that black investors may encounter in the commercial field, and minimizing the risk.
It’s very interesting to train a white guy. He was trained from an ordinary blue-collar worker who doesn’t know any social etiquette and works in a furniture factory into a genius golden boy in the financial investment industry. He teaches him golf, learn mathematics, and complex things. Calculation of return on investment, high-level table manners, etc., there are a lot of jokes here, which moderately eases the film's too flat and straightforward rhythm.
3 Control your ambitions for power, and don't reach out to places you can't control.
After buying a house in Los Angeles and tasted the sweetness, the male protagonist Bernard returned home and returned to his hometown in Texas. He found that the place was still pedantic and racial discrimination was deep-rooted. At this time, the bigger American dream in his heart was born, and he wanted to save , To change the living conditions of black people in their hometown, and the fundamental stubborn disease of discrimination. Bernard immediately wanted to buy the largest bank in his hometown and use white money to lend to black brothers to support their lives and change their treatment. But the big black brother Joe said that even the black leader Martin Luther King couldn't change the deep-rooted racial discrimination problems and contradictions all at once. How could you get rid of the cancer all at once?
Bernard used to play in Los Angeles real estate because it was a business field he was familiar with since he was a child. Now he suddenly changed from a handy real estate neighborhood to an unfamiliar banking neighborhood, or even a political neighborhood where various interests are competing. The rules and loopholes inevitably have no time to take care of, and even touch the minefields, so they planted the bane of the collapse of almost all of their assets.
Of course, Bernard can still control himself. The white guy Matt is lost in the swamp of his own rights and desires for money. He is not reconciled to become a chess piece that is only superficial but controlled by blacks. Although the plot is not directly explained, I suspect that anonymous reporting of bank problems was done secretly by the white guy, in order to smoothly buy another bank of his own, free from the control of the two blacks, and become the real boss.
In the final outcome, although Bernard lost most of his assets, he won the most precious dignity. He is not an impulsive and reckless boy, but an ambitious revolutionary. He went from being a businessman to a political leader. He changed the law and improved the restrictions and discrimination that blacks faced in investment neighborhoods. The ambition and spirit of sacrifice also allowed him to complete his identity in a true sense. The perfect counterattack.
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