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Many viewers who have watched "Interview Scare" should be aware that the white people in the movie actually want to use the black body or shell to enhance their abilities (after all, although white people think that black people have superior external conditions, But the best within yourself), as my friend said, it is similar to the "objectification" of black people, and it is still a kind of discrimination in essence. In this film, the black maid who does not understand "snitch", "rat you out" is commonly used by black people, or the black man at the party (that is, Logan, who was kidnapped in the opening film), stretches out his fist and When he "greeted", he just replaced the small details with a handshake, which not only served as a pavement for the following story (the white consciousness was implanted in the black body), but also insinuated the ebb of black culture in the black community from the side. , The "appropriation" of white culture (which can be more revealed through the act of "hypnosis"), and the appearance of more and more "black outside and white inside" black people (Kanye West is one of the representatives). "Scar"'s reflection on racial issues is more able to keep pace with the times.
And some commentary articles also mentioned, “When the heroine’s mother Missy hypnotized the actor Chris, Chris entered a hypnotic state called The sunken place. This is implying that African Americans (or other people of color) ) When living in the United States, he was marginalized, and his voice must be suppressed." One of the main inking points of the film "Visit Scary" is that the black (or other colored people) thoughts of self-restraint have been buried deep in their minds or consciousness, even if the male protagonist Chris is not hypnotized by Missy In the past, when the white policeman discriminatedly asked him to show his identity card (it was his girlfriend who killed the deer in the car, but the police insisted on checking Chris's ID), they also tried their best to cooperate and were accustomed to similar discrimination; Even the black man Logan, who saw a car parked in the residential area, secretly prayed that he would not cause trouble to his upper body, because he was "hypnotized" by the imperceptible society, and he already knew how to avoid that "after an accident, he would usually be regarded as himself by white people." The consequence of "criminal".
Such inequality is also seen in the white parties in the film. The protagonist Chris sometimes uses a camera instead of directly observing the white people at the party with his eyes (blacks do not have the right to look at each other and examine the whites); The camera or its lens here implied the estrangement between African Americans (or other people of color) and whites, and it has not yet been resolved. Director Jordan Peele’s brilliance not only uses this prop, but also Using the "packaging" of horror genre films to make the audience feel suspicious and fearful of white characters, Jordan Peele also expresses this vague and indelible sense of estrangement in a subtle way.
The main location of the film "Visit • Scare"-the place where the Armitage family lives is isolated from the world and the scenery is pleasant. In fact, the word Armitage is derived from the Greek language, which means "solitary" (solitary). However, this seemingly calm retreat is hidden everywhere and hidden murderous intent. It is like the heroine's mother Missy who stirs the bone china cup in her hand with a small teaspoon that represents nobility and power-leisurely, freehand, but released again Something like the facial expression of a black maid makes people feel uneasy, even shuddering. In addition, the audience always maintains an extremely sensitive state in this environment polished by the warm sunlight/warm light, as if those in the film or in reality are always alert to the black people around them for fear of causing trouble.
In the Puritan-based United States, in the future external "strategy", it used the name of the world police to plunder other countries' energy; but behind the internal democratic mask, there are still serious racial problems hidden. Therefore, the seemingly harmonious and sensible Armitage family finally shed bad water, as if reflecting the hideous features of this country that cannot be concealed; and looking at the blind art dealers who seem to have an agreement with Chris at the party, it is like a mysterious In the ceremonial "Bingo game" (to put it bluntly, it is the "bid" event for Chris), the buyer with the highest bid; he claimed that he did not care about his skin color and did not desire a strong black appearance, but in fact he "bided" with the same field The white man in China is no different, in order to satisfy his own desire for possession; what he said "life is just a disgusting joke" can actually be replaced by a hypocrisy of defending the way, or a mockery of the status quo in the United States.
Many Chinese and foreign film critics have written that the English "Buck" of the deer that Chris and the heroine Rose ran into on the road can be associated with the black derogatory term "Black Buck"; Rose's father said later in the conversation. Expressing his dislike for deer can be understood as his contempt for blacks. At the end of the film, Chris’s special arrangement of stabbing Rose’s father to death with a deer head is very ironic. When Chris was tied to a leather chair for hypnosis, he realized that he had torn the leather cotton with his fingers to act as earplugs and escaped. The plot of the past catastrophe is also connected with it, and has a similar intention to treating the person's body with his own way (behind the pure white and soft cotton, there is a history of blood and tears of black slaves). After the end of the American Civil War, the black slaves in the southern cotton fields were liberated in name, but they still only planted cotton flowers and depended on cotton for their livelihoods. In the end, they were forced to rely on the former slave owners economically. The cotton "symbol" in the movie can also be extended by this (tie his life in the cotton), implying that although the male protagonist has temporarily gained freedom and escaped from "Death Town", he still cannot escape being caught. The fate of discrimination or oppression.
When we look at "Interview·Scary", regardless of its deep connotation and new perspective, its plot development and rhythm layout are all worthy of reference from similar horror films. The foreshadowing in the film "Interview • Scared" is closely linked with the story that happened afterwards, and created the "trap" that the audience thought it was, but it was actually that kind; and the small details of discrimination against black people were scattered throughout Many places in the film imply that "discrimination" is still pervasive at the moment! At the end of the film, when the heroine Rose pretends to be murdered and says "Help", you might think that a policeman will come and regard the hero as the perpetrator. But the final story will tell a lot of audiences. Expectations are different (it is said that there is a dark ending in "Interview" that will be more in line with everyone's "expectations"). Although the ending version released now falls into the stereotypes of the Hollywood commercial film model, from another perspective, even if the protagonist does not need to be jailed, he is inseparable from the "prison" of the real society. The ending subverted our idea of an unusual movie. There should be an unusual ending. In fact, isn't it a "reverse and then reverse" design?
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