I want to say that I went to see "The Human Stain" for Miller. Anthony. Hopkins and Nicole. Kidman will be shocked. They are the protagonists of this very Oscar blockbuster. An older male professor of color has an extramarital affair with a woman who was raped by her stepfather at the age of 14, married and divorced, and lost her pair of children. . Miller plays the male lead in his youth. In the movie, he is not as handsome as Pb's, and he rarely gets close-up shots, so it is difficult to see his glittering eyes.
The first line goes like this, "1998 was a year of hypocrisy. After the fall of communism and before terrorism came, Clinton hired Lewinsky as an intern in the White House..." The blockbuster is dismissed, but it must be said that this is a film that can be watched. The Pulitzer Prize for Literature for the original work of the play should also be watched. The theme of the film is about racial discrimination (themes like this are easy to be attached to Oscar, because they are already sorry for those people, so let’s make up for them in the film, do those judges think so?), from the beginning of the film , the literature class professor confided the indecent use of black people (in fact, there is no) when he taught the class, and when he went deep into it, the plot was slowly revealed. The professor himself is a black man, but his skin tone is relatively light. When he was young, he wrote that he was white in order to join the army. His girlfriend went home with him to see his mother, and finally chose to say to him, I'm sorry, I love you, but I can't to be with you. Since the young part is played by Miller, his personal experience can more deeply show the ambivalence of "white on the outside and black on the inside".
In fact, Wentwrth Miller is a very light-skinned black man. After he revealed to his girlfriend that he had black blood, he was spurned by his girlfriend, "Nigger, go back to your plantation." It's hard to imagine that in the so-called democratic United States, it still discriminates against black people from the heart, and this kind of exclusion is a great insult to Miller. The male protagonist in the film also suffers from this kind of exclusion. He abandoned his family and tried to escape the restrictions of his race on his life. Only her mother said to him mercilessly:
"Your skin is as white as snow, but your skin is as white as snow. Thinking like a nigger."
"No matter what kind of knowledge you have, as long as you're black, you can only carry dishes on the train. I don't want to live the same life as him. I want to change."
"Aren't you afraid of taking risks? If they are not born like you White, are you going to accuse your wife of committing adultery with a black man?"
"I wanted to be a free man, but a prisoner."
"I never considered whether you were black or white, you were gold, you were my golden boy "
My mother's words are touching and hurtful. He was abandoned by his first girlfriend, and he didn't honestly explain his life to his wife. The truth is always so helpless. For this intrinsically excellent man, change is the ultimate choice that his contradictory human nature can make. However, he had to face the school officials accused him of insulting black people and was forced to resign, ironically. In reality, Miller is much more true. Although he had the opportunity to appear in such a blockbuster and was nominated for the best newcomer by the Oscar, he did not have the good luck to win the award. He was born into an intellectual family and has a higher education background, but he chose to go to Los Angeles to become an actor. Ten years, being turned away more than 450 times, ten years, unimaginable twists and turns, today, ten years later, pb made him famous, he himself said, "It took 6 months to shoot a movie with no one. The movie I watch - "The Stain of Human Nature", but PB ("Prison Break") is entering people's homes every week, this is the difference between TV and movies." After ten years of sharpening a sword, Mi Shuai's success comes from his His perseverance, and now he keeps film appointments, but he refuses all of them and concentrates on playing pb. He endowed Michael with his soul, and Michael gave him a "name". Perhaps, this is called "God rewards hard work".
There's a lot more to this film than just race. For example, extramarital affairs, such as incest, such as the clues of the film, Clinton's scandal. But all the auxiliary clues in the film serve to serve the premise of highlighting racial issues, and the background narrative is also to pave the way for an old man's love affair with a woman who can be his daughter. Therefore, the plot corresponding to this name also appears thin and weak. After reading the introduction of the original book, it is obviously much stronger than the movie at this point.
Race confrontation is a gray bridge built in the black and white world. This bridge that the world thinks is rotten and backward, crumbling but immortal in the moments of our daily attention. When will the bridge be attacked and fall to the ground, and when will black and white be integrated.
Maybe, this world will always be black and white, and the difference between Jing and Wei will go on. And we, we are just flowers on the street, not falling in love. As Nicole said, "Don't fall in love with me, we are just men and women in a room alone at the moment."
Human nature, stain. This kind of topic is too big, too broad and too deep, and it cannot be simply exhausted in one movie. The simpler we think, the better off we are.
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