Luce's last dialogue ignited the climax of the movie.
When Luce visited Harriet who was kicked out of the game with a little winner's mentality and apology, he didn't expect that what Harriet told him was the real world he had never thought of.
Luce believes that a person’s future cannot be destroyed because of a small mistake—Deshaun lost his track and field team, scholarship, and first-line career because Harriet broke the cabinet and found marijuana—Harriet told him that if she didn’t Punish this person for his evil deeds, and there will be one person who will not be rewarded for his good deeds. This is completely wrong in Luce's view: Why do we have to be perfect to get rewards from others? Why can't we accept a normal and flawed person? However, Harriet told him again that this is the world we live in, especially in a dark, dirty and unchangeable world that is inherently discriminated against by others. If we are not "perfectly" presented to others, we will not survive at all. hope. Luce hit back again: This is just the world you imagine and hope to be recognized, and I don't want to live according to others' hopes and evaluations. Harriet finally told him: You are wrong, think about who are those who excused you-your kind, almost flawless white parents who don't hesitate to lie? Your white friend? His grandfather, father and even their dog can find a way to get into Dartmouth! Or is it the white principal who easily believes these people? ——You still don’t really understand the world!
After several negotiations, Luce was actually defeated. He can only show his "perfection" as others hope him, stand on the podium and recall his luck as an American, and can only tell the story of another life that has been magically written with the efforts of everyone. He can hardly have a little imperfection, otherwise he will immediately be a devilish monster!
Isn't Harriet just this "imperfect" example? She has worked diligently in the school for so many years. The principal admitted that she is an excellent teacher. She said that she gave her heart to this school and this group of children, but in the end, it was only because she was "stern"-even though she had adopted herself. Believed to be full of "legitimate reasons" in the way of invading the privacy of the bitch-I was framed by my own students and caught fire, so that my sister was humiliated in public (Luce who was late may still be the instigator), and my glimmer of hope was not immediately lost ? The school immediately distinguished its relationship with her and stated that it would not support her in the investigation...
Harriet saw all this clearly, she hated those unsatisfied people who were tightly tied to her, and even hated her only relative, but she had no way to change all of this. Perhaps, we will say, no matter what, you have to be tolerant, whether it is for students who have made mistakes or for relatives who cannot control their behavior during illness, the results will be different. However, in the real world, is this tolerance possible? Even if Harriet is tolerant to Deshaun, will the world be tolerant to Deshaun? Luce didn’t dare to wander the street in the dark with a smell of marijuana. His white friend also asked him: You don’t really think "others"-undoubtedly Harriet's enhanced version of the society, with "just cause" "The police who came to suspect and search--will come to arrest you! Luce knows, it's possible! With a little mistake, he may become Deshaun, and he is also the black of black in the mouth of white friends, not Luce in the black. And, instead of demanding Harriet harshly, why not treat her as a flawed normal person? Although Harriet is mean and cannot be liked and pathetic, she would rather be a member of this mean world in a true, flawed, and bitch-like way, and keep herself "serious". She hopes to punish evil and promote goodness to approach that insignificance. It is possible to perform "perfection" to others instead of acting against the yin.
Perhaps even an unkind "serious" is better than having to express a political stance at any time in life, choosing a position, making a decision, patience, apologizing, and trying to show the "love" full of hypocrisy and terror.
Although we would never think of Harriet as Saint, we definitely don't think of her as Monster. But in Luce's body, it seemed to have both the glamour of Saint and the terrifying possibility of monster. After watching the film, the only thing that remains in my mind is how to face the world truly and transcend good and evil (Saint-Monster)? Whether it is the primitive release of natural desires in the dark storage room, or the eloquent social narration under the chasing light, it is obviously not the answer.
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