There are two most intuitive feelings brought to me by "American X-Files". The first is anger and anger at Derek, and the second is sadness and sadness for the skinheads. I have to praise Edward Norton's acting skills once again. The debate on the Nazis and people of color at the dinner table. To be honest, I was crying. How could a person be such a bastard? If you want to create the role of Derek in just one scene, then it is this one. The successful establishment of this arrogant and ignorant image directly leads to the inability to portray Derek’s character transformation later. , It’s no wonder that evil accumulates in the form of powers, while goodness can only be the addition of simple details and details. Evil brings dramatic destruction and good people at best exchange for a sentence after death. Good people".
Derek "was a good man", his adoration of the Nazis was just a pseudo-worship, as the black teacher said, he was just a kid who got lost. What about the skinheads? When they rushed into the Korean store for crazy beating, smashing and looting, and when they kept insulting and insulting black female salespersons, they didn't realize that they were actually not racists, they were just living in the school. Losers, this group of losers gather. The so-called belief brings them courage, the courage to vent the anger of pressure. As for the object of venting, it can be black people or anything else.
Wang Xiaobo said a passage about faith, which is also repeatedly quoted. It means that any kind of faith, if abused, may become a tool for persecuting others. Look around us. This passage is always fulfilled. NS. Blacks and whites, South Korea and North Korea, Chinese and Japanese, the United States and Iraq, war is also a misunderstood belief. From the perspective of the small inside, all kinds of anti-Japanese and anti-Korean people, cats and dogs protectionists, pseudo-Christian Buddhist followers, car fans, all kinds of controversies similar to those in movies are constantly being carried out on the Internet, as long as you hold If they have slightly different opinions, they can't wait to punish you as if you violated his life's creed. Do you believe in those things? Isn't it? It's just a crown to make their ugly faces look more grandiose.
Why do the skinheads in the movie make us frightened? Because we were surprised to find that those faces and arguments were so familiar, they even came out of our own mouths. It is the sorrow of human beings that the party is in the same way, and the nature of human beings. I think only the sorrow of human beings can explain this unexplainable phenomenon.
When several black people wanted to steal the car that Drake's father left him, we were disgusted and angry with them, but when Drake blasted their heads, we couldn't bear Drake's cruelty again. In the Yaojiaxin case, people also tried to move out "he is a good student and son" to change our hatred of him. When Yao was executed, someone immediately stood up and expressed sympathy. Later, there was an article called "Visiting Yaojiaxin" The article "Parents" burst into tears, and the entire drug case is the epitome of human inferiority, but the irony is that hatred and sympathy, these two emotions are so contradictory and true. Yes, the orientation of moral public opinion is too easy to change and control. A few provocative words and a few general images are enough, but the consequences of this change are unpredictable.
Everything is originally a circle, and there is never a clear boundary between emotions. This is one of the reasons why the director makes such a clear distinction between good and evil. If he is always ambiguous, he will not be able to tell a single story.
In the end, Derek's younger brother Danny became a victim of racism. His life was too short, he was old and angry, and hatred was a burden. It was not worth it. This was the last suggestion this boy gave us with his life. His sacrifice brought pain and sorrow, but it was never a vigilance. We know that he will never be the last, and no one will be the last. The war cannot be stopped, and the killing cannot be stopped.
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