It's great story. The ending is so touching.

Glenna 2022-01-18 08:01:49

I love watching movies based on real stories more and more. In the real world, I can connect, "Connect to", especially historical events, to see how human civilization has developed step by step to today.

Race integration is an example. Even today in the United States, everyone is still calling for Black lives matter. White supremacy seems to still prevail, even more so after Donald Trump came to power. Who knows if this hadn't happened in Durham in 1971, would it be worse today?

Perhaps part of it is the rendering of the movie, but in a small community, dissidents and races sit together to discuss a cross-generational historical issue that directly affects everyone every day. They can discuss rationally and try to understand each other’s point of view. Today, when the echo chambers are constantly zooming in, it is very precious.

The power of citizen participation embodied in it is great. The only foreign participant is Riddick, who runs Charrette. The rest are local residents actively participating in speeches and discussions and final self-determination. This empowerment has its own form in Hong Kong today, but it is not well implemented. Having said that, as a Hong Kong citizen, I should be more active in expressing opinions, such as the policy address. A mature civil society is not about what you want. It is not that you participate in others to be satisfied, but harmony but difference. In the process, opinions must be expressed and recorded.

This film is very suitable for people who have not voted in China and have not fulfilled their civic duties and rights at the community, city, and national levels. Let’s take a look at how a more mature democratic society encourages and promotes citizen participation from the bottom up. of

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  • Roy 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Another black affirmative action movie, but with a focus on CP, a local KKK leader who, after a two-week community meeting with his "nigger enemies," gave up his beliefs for most of his life and quit the KKK.

  • General 2022-04-23 07:04:01

    Copyright is based on true events. Like many films I've seen before, it's about racial discrimination in America. The time is 1971. It recounts the struggle between black civil rights activist Evert and Ku Klux Klan leader Ellis. Evert is a single mother and Ellis is a gas station owner. Their lives could have been peaceful without disturbing each other. But it was because of the influence of the racist traditions of the southern United States at that time, seven years after the promulgation of the "Civil Rights Act" in the United States, they still hated each other and continued all kinds of racial disputes. In the film, after a black school was destroyed by fire, it was planned to assign black children to other schools in order to allow them to continue their education. This plan was opposed by the white people. So in order to resolve this disagreement, a two-week bilateral meeting was held, in which Evault and Ellis fought, discussed, and communicated and understood each other for the benefit of their respective groups. The ultimate winner is human nature.

The Best of Enemies quotes

  • C.P. Ellis: She looked at me like I was some kind of monster.

    Mary Ellis: What did you expect?

  • Ann Atwater: [holding up Bible] This here does the talkin' for me.

    C.P. Ellis: I have a Bible.

    Ann Atwater: Oh, you do? Have you read it?

    C.P. Ellis: Course I've read it. Even go to church on Sundays.

    Ann Atwater: Hmmm. Well, then you ought to know, C.P.

    C.P. Ellis: Know what?

    Ann Atwater: Same God made you, made me.