Is political correctness part of American values?

Theron 2022-03-22 09:01:12

First explain the star rating. To put it simply, "Wreck-It Ralph" (Wreck-It Ralph) has many points on the creative level that are very appetizing to me. The characters are highly recognizable and cute, the art is rich and layered, and the editing rhythm The feeling is not fast or slow. The bright spots displayed when the signal is transmitted on the cable reflect the creative team’s attention to detail. The lines are not boring. Seeing the characters in the film say Your Candiness (analogous to Your Highness, "Your Majesty") and pixelexia ( Analogy to dyslexia, "dyslexia") I laughed, so I gave 5 stars as encouragement. The construction of the virtual world in this film is not as good as "Summer Day", and the degree of exquisiteness of the play is not as good as "Rango", but it only depends on the 4 minutes flashback feeling to win, most of the time there is no good " "Flying House" (Up), and "The Crazy Primitive" (The Crazy Primitive), which only relies on cleverness and gimmicks to win, and the plot emotions at the drama level are extremely young. Croods) is slightly better. So, 5 stars does not stem from what I want to comment on below. What really stimulated me in "Invincible Destruction King" is that the political correctness everywhere in the film reflects the American values ​​that I know from a different perspective. I think it is worth 5 stars, not because the film originally copied the spiritual structure of American society with a virtual game world. It is inevitable for an American production team to make a movie that exudes a strong American scent. This should only be the icing on the cake. The evaluation of a movie mainly depends on the creative level of ideas and completion. So I don’t want to comment on the movie itself, and this movie should not be examined from too many sociological perspectives. After all, the most important thing is to be happy when people are alive. Watching an entertainment blockbuster should have a happy mentality. . It's not that the movies are not enough for entertainment, but that I think too much. Due to my personal experience and the education I have received, I have left an indelible impression of the most conservative part of American society. And for the United States, I am a foreigner, so the political correctness that the Americans readily accept subconsciously can produce a non-negligible rejection reaction in the immune system of my mind. From another point of view, I can only rant about the political correctness of Americans. Perhaps it is not enough to say "this article only represents personal opinions." [Class of Values] No matter how some people spare no effort to advocate, there are classes in every corner of this world. People are in threes, sixs and nines. People in different regions have different criteria for classifying people. For example, in highly-ranked France, poor and demanding French people, they mainly see their class, family, school, company, position, etc. The CEO of a company is better than the manager of the department. The class status is higher, and the CEO’s secret is a bit higher than the department manager’s secret. At least the CEO’s secret thinks that he feels good about himself. Dress and conversation is also an important criterion. As we all know, the United States is a "free and equal" new continent. Of course, you can't use the above-mentioned feudal remnants to measure everyone. As a result, a kind of ideological core that is not very popular in feudal society has been carried forward in this hot land: values. "What I represent are American values" is not surprising, because in such a value-judging society, no one wants to be labeled as "wrong values" by others. Since it is a society judged by values, this judgment standard will naturally divide people into three, six or nine classes. Whoever meets the values ​​is a high-level value class, and who does not meet , Who will be classified as low-level people, and high-level people have the right to speak, and the way of evaluating others with values ​​is largely determined by them. And this value itself, unless it encounters strong resistance, it is almost unshakable. This game rule is strictly enforced in American society. The United States has harsh laws, and the laws are strictly enforced. Most people who have the right to modify the law come from the upper class. As long as they are not mentioned in the law, they are all reasonable. From the perspective of their attitude towards the law, you can imagine that in an ideological world without law, such as values, unwritten "laws" are also being enforced by Han Feizi. [Low-level value class people] There is a scene at the beginning of the film, let us find a particularly good entry point to understand the concept of "value class". In the game world, the characters are either black or white. The "bad guys" defined in the game world headed by Ralph meet regularly to complain to each other because the "good guys" don't take them to play. These "bad guys" get together and motivate themselves and each other. After all, they are all inferior. Don't dislike anyone. No matter how unhappy, just say it. After the meeting, continue to be "bad guys" and continue to be isolated by "good guys." . The "good" and "bad" are one of the values ​​used as a scale in the movie. It puts the so-called "bad guys" out of the low-level value class, living in scrap bricks, while high-level people live in apartments. Open pary and eat cake. Similarly, as a procedural error, Vanellope was classified as a low-level value scale by the value ruler of "program integrity" in her game. Ralph and Vanellope are both low-level people. Even if they don’t meet each other after meeting, they will quickly hit it off, and the two will motivate and motivate each other. For example, Ralph said to Vanellope: "Everyone will love you, and you will win. , And you are cute, everyone will love a cute winner." In this case, only people of the same class can tell. At the end of the film, the "bad guys" in other games also smashed the house with Ralph. This is exactly: what class of people do what, no matter which game you are in. [Two temperamental high-level value-class people] Felix faced Ralph, and he was unwilling to say the words of rejection directly, which distinguished him from some other high-level value-class people. He and the little girls driving the car in the candy kingdom represent two high-level values ​​of temperament (or self-cultivation?). Felix commented on Ralph: "He suddenly started Going crazy, wanting to eat cake and wanting to win the gold medal, I really don't understand why. "He really doesn't know why. He is naive, because the influence of values ​​is subtle. He won't say directly that Ralph shouldn't want to eat cake and want to win the gold medal. He subconsciously believes that because Ralph comes from the "bad guy class." , This class is a low-level value class, and the cake belongs to a high-level person, he shouldn’t have this idea at all. But he can’t tell the truth. The little racing girl pointed to Vanellope’s nose and said, “You are A program malfunction, you are not eligible to participate in a racing competition. I don't want to compete with a bug. "This is obviously much more straightforward than Felix's expressions, and their tempers are more direct. But they can't tell the truth that Felix can't tell. They can't tell that racing is only a high-level value class. People do this because the influence of values ​​is subtle. The king said: "Vanellope cannot participate in racing competitions. I am not against her, I am protecting her. "This modified language, like Felix's innocence, is also a sign of this kind of gentle and introverted high-ranking person. He won't say it directly, Vanellope will get me off the track! At least not until he transforms. That said. But what about protecting her? She doesn’t participate in the game. The game will not be taken down because of bugs, all the characters in the game have saved their lives. Then the king went on to live his days of admiration, Vanellope as a program error, Continue to accompany trash every day. After all, as a high-level person, the king still cannot accept a bug to compete on the same field. The rules of the game just cannot be changed. This is a model that perfectly combines the logic of values. As for the role of the female war police. , She regards those who destroy the family as enemies, fighting for the value of "family integrity", she can naturally be with Felix who is struggling for the values ​​of "good people", the combination of this pair of class comrades, revolutionary couples is also allowed by the values. [Two The relationship between hierarchical values ​​and classes] As for how people with high-level values ​​treat low-level people, it can be seen subtly from the dialogue between Ralph and Felix outside the party venue. Felix faced Ralph and wanted to join them. At the gathering of "good people", he speaks in a non-speculative tone, with a difficult expression, and wants to refuse, but because of the "superiority" of the value class, he can't say rejection, and never say a good thing, so I have to Standing there awkwardly, squeezing his eyebrows to force a smile. Such an expression , The face of Americans who are above values ​​is shown hundreds of millions of times every day. All of these are too American values. Ralph violated the rules of the game set by the high-level people, and the game almost went offline. Of course, he was regarded by the high-level people as the person responsible for this. Ralph said, "This is not what I want. What I want... I just don't want to live alone on the garbage dump." He said to Felix, "As long as you can help me fix the car, I will never try to be a good person. 'Now.' Needless to say to break through the high-sounding goal of the value class, Ralph has no idea what values ​​are, so how can we change it? In the end, he naturally accepted the discrimination of values ​​for the so-called "big picture", how can he break through? But it was Ralph, a low-level man who was confused, and finally turned the tide. When a low-level person has gone through difficulties and obstacles and achieved some results higher than his own class level, there are two endings: he did not enter, or he entered a higher class. When you turn on the TV and watch the Oscars awards party, when a black actor wins an award—such as Halle Berry, who is all impressed by us—the moment he gets on stage, he tears his nose and says: How hard I have been Only after breaking through racial discrimination, to get this award, am I easy to me! ...So and so on. People of high-level values ​​class, for the so-called political correctness, they will praise some of the shouts and efforts of low-level people, or for their own interests, take the initiative to approach and show good to some low-level people, but most of them will not For these low-level people, they still draw a clear line between them and the low-level people. Ralph was bought by the king and smashed Vanellope's car. After the smash, he still couldn't become a high-level person. Vanellope would still have to be with Ralph after being angry, because this was caused by their class attributes. In other words, for a person who has truly entered a higher value class from a lower level, one of his obvious changes is likely to be: no longer publicize that he has worked hard and overcome his own as a lower level person. Inferior values, the experience finally recognized by higher-level people. Because this kind of experience only belongs to the lower-level value class, besides, I have become a higher-level person, why wait for the higher-level person to recognize it? It should be other lower-level people who came to me to recognize them. So, unfortunately, Halle Berry, as long as you still want to cry out your history of struggle in front of hundreds of millions of viewers, you are clearly showing to the world that you have not really entered the high-level value class and that you are still discriminated against in Hollywood. Humanoid. This is fate. Blame yourself for being African American? Blame yourself for being born in a "free and democratic" America? Don't be stupid, you go to Philadelphia, your black brothers and sisters are still sleeping in the slums, and they can only get a little bit of self-identity by relying on guns and buying and selling drugs. Be content. However, if there is really a low-level person who has entered a high-level, those high-level people have just judged him with various values ​​and ridiculed him, then they will come to hug him and pull him to the same line. Then, fortunately--or is it...terrible? ——Regardless of whether he really agrees with such high-level values ​​ideologically, or he wants to start from his own interests, try his best to conceal his personal attributes that are despised by various values, and at the same time actively use values ​​as a weapon to get rid of himself Relations with low-level value-class people, to maintain the commanding heights of their hard-won values. Of course, there is another situation, that is, falling from a high level to a low level. The king's transformation into an evil virus is such an example. There is nothing to say, the lower-class people cross the street, and everyone shouts and beats. [The value tendency of this movie? ] In "Invincible Destruction King", low-level Ralph saved the game world. This can be seen as a cry for "breaking through" the value system from the low-level value class. This cry is very loud. But when Ralph yelled "I am a'bad guy', this is good; I will never be a'good person', this is not bad"," and Vanellope takes off the high-level symbolic princess clothes to be enthusiastic with low-level Ralph When embracing each other, when Vanellope invited Ralph to live in the high-level symbolic castle, Ralph flatly refused and said that he was "not the type of president". When the high-level apartment developer treated Ralph in a condescending manner, Ralph agreed. When they feel happy about their low-level status, when the high-level Felix and the female police tied the knot, and the low-level Ralph and Vanellope are the best man and bridesmaid-they may be able to change their class, But this set of rules of high and low is actually fixed from beginning to end. Who can say that this movie is not in compliance with political correctness everywhere, or in compliance with American values ​​everywhere? If we say "Margin Storm" (Margin The word "profit" in Call) takes the lead, the survival of the fittest, and the core idea of ​​"the talented rises fast, the incompetent eats pickles", which embodies the talent discrimination in American values, and embodies the Protestant ethics that the United States relies on to maintain its status as a superpower , Then "Invincible Destruction King" is just less explicit in terms of values. Looking at the two films together, you can get a glimpse of the cruelty of American values ​​from multiple angles. The cruel point is that so many people have made so many movies, so many mentions of such values, so many people have argued for such values ​​in so many fields. The United States of America is still such a seemingly "free and equal", but in reality Shanghai is still a society dominated by racial discrimination, gender discrimination, wage discrimination, personal life discrimination and talent discrimination, etc., and it is still the best pronoun of the spirit of capitalism on this earth. Maybe in the United States, you should just follow the locals. You should understand that in this society, whites and whites should be mixed together, blacks and blacks should be mixed together, Mexicans and Mexicans should be mixed together, and even Chinese and Chinese born in the United States (also known as ABC) are both. Two clearly distinguished social circles. ——You are Chinese, do you want to come and play with us white people? Yes, we welcome you, you can come to my house to have a party. What? Talking? Have a heart-felt chat? I'm sorry, I never thought about this. When I want to talk, all I look for are white people. -Value discrimination, like another "invisible hand", has a profound and subtle impact on everyone in this society, whether they are discriminators or those who are discriminated against. So, what does the creator of "Invincible Destruction King" want to explain? Whose stand is he standing on? He preached an inspirational process, just like Halle Berry did. Maybe he is a person discriminated against by high-level values ​​in Hollywood? Because people in the high-level value class don't think about problems like him at all. But he didn't let the characters and stories go to break these values ​​everywhere. Is he upholding the high-level value class he represents? The movie has finished lively. This question is not important. What is important is that I hope that the creators will have the opportunity to continue making good-looking entertainment films. As for "Invincible Destruction King" during this year's awards season, it won the Annie Award, known as the "Animated Movie Oscar", but lost to "Brave" at the Oscar, perhaps just by accident. I definitely don't dare to speculate about the value class of the judges of these two awards. After all, as we all know, the United States is a "free and equal" country, and the American awards should be based on the "free and equal" standards. Like Berry. Maybe he is a person discriminated against by high-level values ​​in Hollywood? Because people in the high-level value class don't think about problems like him at all. But he didn't let the characters and stories go to break these values ​​everywhere. Is he upholding the high-level value class he represents? The movie has finished lively. This question is not important. What is important is that I hope that the creators will have the opportunity to continue making good-looking entertainment films. As for "Invincible Destruction King" during this year's awards season, it won the Annie Award, known as the "Animated Movie Oscar", but lost to "Brave" at the Oscar, perhaps just by accident. I definitely don't dare to speculate about the value class of the judges of these two awards. After all, as we all know, the United States is a "free and equal" country, and the American awards should be based on the "free and equal" standards.

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Wreck-It Ralph quotes

  • King Candy: [puts on glasses] You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?

    [Ralph smacks the King with the glasses]

    King Candy: You hit a guy, with glasses. That's... that's... well-played.

  • [from trailer]

    Vanellope von Schweetz: I bet you really gotta watch where you step in a game called "Hero's Doodie"!

    [breaks into laughter]