According to my aesthetics, there are not many good-looking blacks. But the first time I saw Simpson's face, I realized that this man was really handsome. He smiled at the camera, exaggerated.
This is a sorrowful contrast with Simpson in the documentary. The first shot the director gave Simpson was of a gray-haired man behind bars, calmly telling visitors what he did in prison.
This is a broken story from an American fairy tale. Of course, there are reflections on American racial and judicial issues in this story, but it is still a story based on Simpson after all.
running Man
Simpson became famous for running. He is the best running back in the history of professional American football. He is the first person to sprint for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He has extremely high athletic talent, coupled with the hard work of the day after tomorrow, he picked up the ball and ran, and he got wind under his feet, which no one can match.
Of course, there is a deeper metaphor for him: he is running toward the success he understands, and he is running toward the destiny he wants to control. It can be said that Forrest Gump ran to appeal to more people to follow him towards the American Dream; and he ran to get rid of his birth environment, to run towards the American Dream alone—his father’s homosexuality made him His family is fragmented, and the LA neighborhood where he was born has no hope of development. The children in the neighborhood even regard the gangsters on the street as idols.
So he refused to speak up for the black affirmative movement, he refused to fulfill the responsibilities of black public figures, and he refused his skin color. Because it is not helpful to his success. He just ran forward in a posture of getting rid of everything, then smiled to the camera and said: "I don't care if I am black or white, I am OJ, I only represent OJ himself."
actor actress
After retiring, Simpson marched into Hollywood and got into acting. He is not necessarily an actor with great acting skills, but he must be a performer in the white elite society.
The most friendly smile is always on the corner of his mouth. He can always mingle with white people, and he can pretend every celebrity he has just met is his old friend. The "high light moment" that best reflects his acting skills is that he can stand up to his black skin and then act as a white man who has been replaced by a fake. So when he attends a party, the rich friends around him will ask in amazement: "Why does Simpson sit with those black people?"
And if he was the real culprit in the two murders, then that trial would be the culmination of his acting career. He will pretend to sigh his grievances in the daily court diary, and he will laugh when the key exhibits are displayed. His intensive performance has become a kind of self-hypnosis that is almost faith. He added "if" before "I did that", and determined that this "if" was a fact.
Simpson's performance has reached the level of no distinction between people and drama. He used the most innocent eyes to give back the most indefensible testimony.
Depraved
"As a kid who grew up in a slum, what I longed for most in my life was not money, but fame. I always wanted to hear others point to me behind my back, and then talk: Hey, It's OJ"
He runs on the court, he performs in white society, and fame is an important driving force for him. He can be scandal, but he can't remain silent.
So when he really showed his old attitude, even though he was exempt from prison, but the level of attention was not as good as before, he chose to leave LA, which was too fast for celebrities to eliminate. When he came to Florida, the people here didn't seem to care about the murder of his wife, only there were still a large number of silly white sweet girls waiting to be fed. He has become the "king of nightclubs" from a big star in the past, because only in the darkness and chaos of nightclubs can he gain a little bit of vanity and self-esteem. His depravity is even more embarrassing than Yamaguchi Baihui who sang in a bar in his later years.
From the controller to the controlled
The damage Simpson caused to Nicole is a perfect expression of his almost pathological desire for control. "If Nicole said a word to the gas crew at the gas station, he would feel very upset and scold her." So when Nicole confidently hinted at him "I don't need you", he went crazy.
So the "Judgment of the Century", which was highly exaggerated in that news report, was also under the control of him and his defense team that he had hired heavily. They tried their best to push a pure judicial trial above the secondary factor of race. The defense lawyers step by step insinuated and played the "race card" in order to effectively manipulate racial sentiment to help Simpson get rid of crime.
But his depravity hints at his indulgence, and indulgent people often find it difficult to control their own destiny. After that ridiculous robbery, he finally suffered a late "retaliation" from the white world he once lived in. When the judge took a sip of a drink casually and announced his guilt with some contempt, he seemed to be reduced from the person in charge to the person in charge.
wake up
The whole documentary is like a crushed dream. Simpson has also turned from the guy who rushes holding the football into an old man sitting behind bars.
When he faced the public for the last time and said, "I hope you remember the glorious OJ once, don't remember what I am now", he was the nightmare in this American dream.
Just as the film said, "He was finally sentenced to 33 years in prison, implying a previous civil lawsuit sentence of 33 million US dollars." It seems that the United States made such a documentary in 2016 when they were jumping around. Implied to themselves: the American dream should wake up. It's time to have breakfast, and then plan the schedule for the day.
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