The above is how a classmate asked me to recommend a movie. After I recommended this movie to him, I felt like I was thundered by him. The dialogue between us is as follows:
Him: Are there any good movies recently?
Me: The classic car is not bad.
He: Who took the photo?
Me: Clint Eastwood
He:
I have never heard of (...) Actually, I don't want to talk to
him anymore. He: What is it?
Me: Tell a friendship story between an old white man and an Asian young man.
He: I'm dizzy, do you have anything better?
I really wanted to kick him at the time
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Well, people told me to recommend because they can afford me, talk less and talk about movies. Watching this movie is very touching because the racial barriers in the United States are still quite serious. Although this kind of estrangement does not cause too many conflicts in daily life, it can be clearly felt. For example, in the cafeteria, white students, black students, and Asian students sit down to eat, all sitting separately; the same is true in the swimming pool. This is also a place where there are more blacks and yellow races in the south. It is hard to imagine that where whites in the north dominate the population, the racial divide will become more serious.
Clint Eastwood seems to be a famous old rightist. He made this film, which made me think he seemed to be a kind of talk in his later years. I can't guess whether he really thinks that people of all races should live in "harmonious", at least that's what he said.
Here again I think of Gonzalez's Tower of Babel. Interpersonal aphasia cannot be resolved in decades or even hundreds of years. Just as the old man in this movie treats all Asians as a group, the Orientals in the eyes of Westerners are synonymous with mystery and backwardness. The level of "lagging behind" seems to be weaker recently, but there is still some. In contrast, our understanding of the Western world is also very limited due to various public opinion controls and geographic gaps. To put it in a small way, the aphasia between individuals is also constantly occurring with the progress of human civilization.
In fact, to put it bluntly, what this movie and "The Tower of Babel" want to express is a concept that is very popular in American movies recently, which is the communication and exchange between people. It can be seen that contemporary Americans are too lonely in their hearts and need this. Kind of culture to comfort yourself. A concept that is very popular in Chinese movies recently, I don’t say that everyone knows it, is the fight between people. It can be seen that the Chinese people's inner repression of resistance is too much and too strong, and they need this kind of culture to release themselves.
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