Always feel that the whole movie is a little too perfect? Happy ending, and a little too politically correct. A film castrated by political correctness?
There has been a sudden increase in all kinds of movies about the real history of the black movement lately. good thing. Someone is paying attention to minority, it's like gay movies, which started to catch on a few years ago.
But objectively speaking, this film does not seem to be as good as the help, nor as progressive as the green paper. The reason may be because the Green Book is a tour, and the characters change and grow. But this film, which is an event, a re-enactment of a case, feels more like a cross-section than a complete story growing up in a vertical line. There are many images of white-black conflict in the story. There is a scene where black people make kkk to tease the leader. There are black power mobilization meetings, compared with white kkk mobilization meetings. Then what? No one understands the other, no one grows or changes mindsets and ideas. Such a cross-sectional story does not meet the aesthetic requirements of Hollywood's "character development" type of drama. But the reason I don't give this film high marks isn't because it doesn't fit the traditional Hollywood drama aesthetic. Because I have also mentioned in my previous diaries, for example, Japanese films are often a cross-section of the social era, and the characters do not grow. It doesn't matter if you don't stop, but it needs to be deep enough. It's okay not to develop forward, but you have to go deep and dig into the characters' past experiences. This movie doesn't do that. For example, why is the black protagonist, he is not deeply moved by the black movement, why he has always been a policeman, what kind of family does he come from, and why he falls in love with the female protagonist. Not enough of these. The Jewish undercover police officer, why can he instantly integrate into kkk? His rejection or reflection is not reflected. And why the white kkk people have such violent tendencies, they are only brought by a very simple stereotype.
The film spends too much of its time depicting some dazzling racial stereotypes. But there is no progressive feeling. For example, several calls between the male protagonist and the leader of kkk are actually showing some stereotypes and speaking habits of white and black people in front of you for the audience to see. A bit verbose. And then it's a little too partial to black people and sympathizes with black people, so it's politically correct. For example, it did not reflect that at that time, there were indeed many black people who committed crimes and violated the white middle class, thus breeding the hatred of white people and so on. The characters are all casually depicting a few details like a touch of water. Spread too wide. For another example, why KKK has such an idea and dare not discuss it in depth, it is estimated that the director is afraid of being accused of making excuses for white supremacy. Therefore, it is a politically correct film that made a small test on the gray edge. Maybe politically correct has become America's film censorship system. Why there is no way to uncover the bloody truth.
Some desirable points are that when comparing the contradiction between black and white people, symmetrical composition is used many times, or the screen is directly split. Visually it helps the viewer to understand this opposition and contrast. From the contrasting similarities, I feel a core idea, stereotypes lead to hatred, and many hatreds come together, which may lead to violence. And violence, whether under what kind of name, good cause or bad cause, is always wrong and dangerous. This core idea is the core of the whole film and the embodiment of pacifism. So there are some documentary-style interludes at the end, reminding people that this is not just history, this is not just movies, this is whats going on with the world. the reality.
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