We have heard too much news about American racial issues. In the United States, the issue of blacks is also a sensitive issue. Blacks are discriminated against, and they are often beaten and killed by the police. These stories reveal one aspect of the facts, but they are Let us fall into one-line thinking and attribute racial discrimination to arrogant white people. Such thinking is happy but does not help solve the problem. What is shown in "US X Files" is the simple but complicated reality of American racial conflicts. The simple reason is that their conflicts are so straightforward and violent, and a single quarrel can trigger a bloody crime. The complicated thing is that this involves a complicated cycle of violence and hatred, distortion of ideas and magnification of lies. Just like Derry is murderous when he hates blacks, he can be cold and simple, but his mental journey is complicated and subtle, from a teenager who admires his black teacher to a fanatical anti-black gang backbone, and then to prison again. After recognizing the old lies and trying to save his brother who had fallen into the wrong path after he was released from prison, this was not a simple turn of a circle, but a tortuous journey, a painful experience in life. Finally, he came out of the confusion and was about to welcome him. Coming to a more splendid life, the younger brother died tragically by the black gun, as if another reincarnation, racial hatred is still growing. The film ends here, leaving behind unknown questions like X, what will happen to Derui after his brother's death? Will his attitude towards blacks enter the next cycle?
The film shows the cruel side of social reality as soon as the film comes up, and Derry’s younger brother Danny, as the "recorder" of the X file, interprets and narrates this period of history with the dual roles of witnesses and bystanders, and records a period of history of his elder brother. . Danny recounted his brother's fanatical years of hatred of blacks. Drey attacked blacks and immigrants like a diabolical hysterical, and even viciously attacked his family until he entered prison. And Danny can only record the history in his eyes. History is like that. It will always have unknown X files for others to write. Everyone can write X files that others don’t know. History is like an equation with too There are many unknown variables. Only when more people fill in the "constant" of their lives in this period of history can they get the most complete answer to the equation. From the time Derui entered the prison, the history began to be written by him. When looking back on the past, the film uses black and white images, which makes it look more historical, just like in "Good Night, Good Luck", even though there is no "Good Night," The heavy feeling in "Good Luck", but still looks solemn and profound. In the prison scene, the director expressed a kind of good hope. Derry and a black man in the laundry room gradually established a friendship, and Derry's choice also showed a kind of dilemma, the contradiction between black and white people in society extended. When he arrived in prison, as a white man who was imprisoned for killing blacks, he faced the hatred of blacks, so he had to get close to whites. As a white man, his reconciliation with blacks was not tolerated by the white community, so he was sodomized and beaten by whites in the bathhouse. Here, a beautiful desire for reconciliation was raped, when Derry was dying on the floor of the bathhouse. , The "white power" in his hands seemed full of irony, and he was subjected to "white power" as a white man. I hope that such a film, the director shows reality, and expresses good hope at the same time, and reality is like this. It may not be as beautiful as we imagined. It is always full of cruel corners in a scene of singing and dancing; it may not We imagine so dark, in the darkness and heavy, there is always a light of hope. Therefore, Derui tried to rescue the brother who went astray after he was released from prison. He almost succeeded. His brother completed the X file. His brother and his brother tore off the demonstrative signs of fanaticism. However, in the end, the brother who often wore bewildered eyes died. Perhaps the young man who was about to embark on the path of reconciliation with the blacks died at the guns of the blacks. With the end of the film, the next file of X is waiting to be written. The film is over, leaving behind an unknown future.
Drey is just one of many whites who have discriminated against and even hated people of color. He cannot change history personally, but he can change his own history, his personal history. Obviously, his changes are not easy. Personal history is always inseparable from the promotion or containment of great history. Just like Derry did, he stubbornly changed his trajectory, and at the same time paid too much. However, his efforts have provided more answers for X in the development of his personal history. He is still fighting against the lies and deceptions that lead more young people astray. He still tries to accompany his family in a peaceful life. He works hard. Now, he allows us to see hope and the possibility of a harmonious prospect on the historical development trajectory. Perhaps this is the reason why the film still makes me uncomfortable and heavy after Danny’s tragic death.
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