A movie marked "want to watch" for many years. I didn't watch the brief introduction before. It was only after watching it yesterday that I discovered that this American movie 22 years ago actually echoes the current American reality.
The film reveals to us the dark forest reality of hatred between the bottom white Americans and various races through the thoughts of the white protagonist Derek before and after entering prison for murder.
The film concludes with the conclusion of the essay written before the protagonist’s brother was shot, "Hate is a burden, a waste of time, and it’s not worth it." Looking for a breakthrough.
The movie itself is very realistic, and factors such as sex, violence, rape, robbery, etc. are all shown to the audience in every detail. This has also succeeded in substituting a Chinese like me into the bottom life of the United States.
It is a pity that behind this realism, there is a bit too idealistic ideological core, and the film does not see the root of mutual hostility between races.
It seems to me that the explanation of the "Dark Forest" rule of "Three-Body" would be particularly suitable for the root cause.
The various ethnic groups in the United States have long lived in groups, each forming its own small society.
Therefore, in the absence of communication, the various races are like separate civilizations, distrusting each other and guarding each other. Whenever there is trouble, they will blame each other and even erupt conflicts.
People are selfish, and it is a kind of self-protection at the worst for those who do not understand.
The film simply says that hatred is a waste of time. In fact, no one wants to waste that time on the premise of ensuring equality and safety.
The reality is not as simple as "As long as everyone gives a little love, the world will become a beautiful world."
To change the reality of the United States today, it is not enough to use the so-called political correctness and the so-called fight for power for the blacks, because such political correctness and the black affirmative movement itself is a kind of unfairness.
For the sake of so-called political correctness, you cannot deny the saying that "blacks are a minority" in the United States.
A few days ago, I saw on Douyin that American actor Cao Cao, who has been filming in China for many years, posted a video. He said that he felt the hardships of being a minority only after talking to his brother about his arrival in China. He came to China as an American. It was originally a fact that he said that he became a minority, but his brother was angry at his statement, saying that he was politically incorrect, because in the United States, white people are definitely not a minority. He said this in disguise. Racial discrimination.
When I watched the video, I really found it inexplicable, what kind of political correctness this is, it makes people logically confused like this.
But I didn’t know the reason until I watched the movie.
In the memories of the protagonist’s younger brother, the firefighter’s father once mentioned one thing when he was alive, that is, when the fire brigade recently recruited two blacks with poor grades, they squeezed out the two with better grades. White people, and this is part of the black affirmative movement.
The film may be to express that racial discrimination in this family has been in flames since the father’s generation, but what I see is that the American social affirmative movement is giving birth to real unfairness, inciting another kind of unfair treatment of whites to blacks. And the hatred brought.
What is equal rights? This in itself is for all races to achieve equality, but the fair competition becomes unfair just because of skin color. This is actually an overcorrection.
Just as it was previously revealed that Harvard, in order to balance the acceptance rate of various ethnicities, forced Asians to be brushed down by inexplicable personality evaluations, resulting in the same conditions, the acceptance rate of Asian students is often lower than that of students of other ethnicities. , The threshold for Asians to enter Harvard has been raised.
Let’s not say whether the "Father of DNA" Watson’s repeated statements about the differences in IQ between races are true (he was dismissed from all administrative positions by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for such remarks), at least in terms of national character, Asians are It is a fact that studies are more focused and harder and academic performance is generally high, but world-renowned schools like Harvard have to prevent Asians from getting their due rate of admission to higher education because of the affirmative movement. The so-called political correctness in the United States does not give birth to new injustices. , Bring new hatred?
To be honest, I don’t know how to fundamentally resolve the status quo of racial hatred in the United States, because I was born in China where there is a great integration of ethnic groups and an unusually tolerant culture. The political correctness of the mermaid can be solved by turning black and Captain America black.
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