This compact film was unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival in January this year, but not many people seem to notice it. The stories it tells and the core of its responses are the most sensitive topics nowadays-people of color and immigration issues. There is reason to believe that this movie is largely a product of Trump's rise to power. It is understandable to say that it is a political derivative, but as a Chinese who has lived overseas for many years, I can fully understand the meaning of this movie, as well as the awesome power and sad helplessness behind this movie's story.
The protagonist of the movie, Bitlitz, as a Mexican who immigrated to the United States since childhood and grew up in the United States, does massage therapy for others. She was affectionately called family by the white wife she served, and was enthusiastically stayed at the dinner party. During the dinner, Bitlitz and a guest of the night, the real estate tycoon, engaged in a "fierce" confrontation that seemed calm and surging inside. The two people had many differences and inconsistencies in culture, beliefs, background, and three views, which made Bitlitz count. Degree to leave the meeting (or "being" leaving). Bitlitz and the white capitalist should be regarded as "enemies", but when she tried to contend with the capitalist in her own way, she could only be defeated. There was an impossible gap between them, no matter what Is it capital or conceptual.
Bitlitz, as a representative of a minority ethnic group, reflects the dilemma faced or suffered by the minority ethnic group all the time in the conversation among white people. When white capitalists jokingly talk about illegal immigration and hunting animals, Bitlitz always tries to use his insignificant kindness to win respect and understanding for himself. Although it turns out that all this is futile, the artistic conception that the film wants to reflect on this level is enough to make the audience truly feel how hypocritical and ridiculous the so-called "inclusive and pluralistic" political system in Western countries is.
The film was shot on such a sensitive topic, but this topic is right beside you and me---racism. Racism has never been eliminated, and may not even be eliminated, because it is in the bones of human beings. No matter how the orators who are active in the political arena perform, the difference will always be there, and it will not be resolved in the short term. The conflict presented in the movie is like a leather whip lashing at everyone's hypocritical skin, but the evil in human nature has long made people numb and no longer afraid of this whip.
At the end of the movie, Bitlitz chose to park on the way home and slowly walked towards the sea in the middle of the night. Because she once said that she would swim hard across the vast sea and swim back to her hometown of Mexico. Although I don't know where Bitlitz will go in the end, I believe it must be a kind, tolerant, and non-discriminatory place. She can simply love her animals, she can live a quiet and peaceful life like a ferry on the quiet river in her hometown, and no longer suffer many confusions and struggles like tonight.
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