That man kills my goat. Civilization is the creation of demons.

The 83-minute film is very small, and it is just a story that happened in one day. The director’s rhythm is very well controlled, from the calm at the beginning, to the embarrassing integration of the intruder, to the evolution of the contradiction, and finally the conflict erupts. And reversal, there is also an end that echoes with the intention to run through the whole film from beginning to end. As a complete narrative, it not only gives the audience a personal experience through a natural lens, but also conveys more values ​​that they want to express through a combination of virtual and real through some special intentions. This is not just a story about a minority group’s difficulty in integrating into the upper white class dining table, it has an understanding of history, culture, humanity, and beliefs. For the (over) interpretation of some details, we can try to explore more deep meanings that are easily overlooked.

The story starts from the back of a little girl rowing a boat alone in a piece of water in Mexico. This original picture scroll will appear every time the heroine Beatriz thinks of her hometown. In the picture scroll, there are only blue sky, river water, jungle, canoe, and a girl in plain clothes. Everything is so primitive and simple, which represents the original appearance of the heroine's hometown. However, because the heroine immigrated to Los Angeles since childhood, the impression of this place is always only this corner. The only distortion in this picture occurred when Beatriz was helping Doug massage. This masseuse, who had psychic talents since he was a child, perceives the cruelty of the old white man's development of the primitive Mexico. At this time, Beatriz's picture of his only childhood memories changed in perspective. The audience looked underwater and saw blood gurgling. This blood is not only the blood of the aborigines, the blood of animals, but also the black blood that came out of people's hearts.

Mexico is a society ruled by Roman Catholicism. Beatriz in the film is obviously a relatively maverick person, can not say or believe it, but she has more unusual religious elements. First of all, at the beginning of the introduction stage, since Beatriz raised stray dogs, injured goats and meditated with incense at home, he also received the cancer rehabilitation center where Beatriz works from the industrial screen in Los Angeles. She is a masseuse, in her words, she was synaesthetic and gifted since she was a child. The main reason why Beatriz’s narrative meditation is incompatible with primitivism and post-industrial society (in fact, meditation in Northern Canada is only the spirit of the upper class. Pin). We were surprised to find that there was also a little monk doll on Beatriz's Volkswagen car. This doll like the little Maitreya shook his head and foretells the ridiculous farce that Beatriz will experience next.

Obviously, this is a small view of the big, through the small ethnic group participating in the white upper-level dinner to reveal the main creator's view of the minority ethnic group's social integration. In terms of the sympathy and resistance of Lian Dajie, the main creator showed great restraint (probably because the screenwriter Bai Zuo has a relatively limited thinking framework on racial issues). Amidst this conflict, the deepest feeling is undoubtedly the African hunting that Doug, the white rightist, talks about. When he circulated the rhinoceros he had killed to everyone, the audience was undoubtedly nervous.

Director Miguel Arteta is a senior Puerto Rican American drama director. Both the US version of the office and the first season of US Horror participated in the production.

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