Before entering the venue, I listened to my mother-in-law's introduction. Once I heard it, I found that it was a standard American award-winning film: race, law, justice, positive energy, American universal values, and the brilliance of human nature. Similar themes, either on the way to the Oscars or on the way to the Oscars, just came to the Gold Coast this year.
Looking at the length of the film, you can guess the direction of the plot in a full 2 hours. Until the protagonist appeared, hey, isn't this the little flower in the Aegis? Probably because I had a good impression of seeing familiar faces, the next viewing process was not as long as I imagined. On the contrary, with the rhythm to the end, the audience of the entire film palace continued to applaud for a long time (the positive energy I said before), until the end of the final subtitles.
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movie tells the story of male and female love, But because of the segregation policy at the time, he was convicted in Virginia at the time and had to move to Washington. Later, with the racial movement, the lawsuit entered the Supreme Court, and finally the two were able to return to their hometowns.
The background of the film involves American Puritans, racial movements, judicial mechanisms and constitutional amendments. Therefore, behind the stories of the two people is a portrayal of an entire era in the United States.
In the play, the police officers who broke into the house at night to arrest the loving couple were typical representatives of the Puritans in the southern United States at that time. In the early southern United States, because of the geographical environment and climate, it was more suitable for large-scale planting, so there were more farms and plantations, and most of the imported black slaves were needed as labor. This is also why the liberation of black slaves to various racial movements in the later period started in the north, and it was difficult to implement in the south. On the one hand, the equality and emancipation of black slaves affected the vested interests of the southern white class; In the face of real inequality, religious believers who profess "benevolence" have also found their own explanation: God divides people into different colors for a reason. Is this explanation very familiar? Just as there are still many religious anti-gay people in modern society who believe that God divides people into men and women for a reason. The scary thing is that when the social machine also endorses this idea, the police, judges, and even the law itself, as symbols of justice and protection, become the persecutors together.
Fortunately, there is a mechanism of separation of powers in the whole system. Those who have been exposed to the U.S. Constitution will probably be surprised at first that the English language used in the Constitution is usually very concise compared to the complexity and depth of the imagined law. This is done because, on the one hand, complexity is not as simple as simplicity, the backbone is clear, and established principles cannot be changed; on the other hand, legislators understand that the future world cannot be predicted, but the law also needs to keep pace with the times, so the case law is used to increase the legal power. details, while keeping the law appropriate for the era. As a result, the Supreme Court has become a sanctuary that has changed the course of history in American history. By selecting socially controversial cases, the Supreme Court's ruling on a case has special significance in interpreting the Constitution. Once a case is filed for trial, similar cases will be enforced nationwide in accordance with the Supreme Court's ruling. This is why in the movie, the two lawyers deliberately wanted the loving couple to be arrested, then lost the small town court and the Virginia state court, and finally brought the case to the Supreme Court. The reason why this case has become a symbol of racial marriage freedom is because the moment the Supreme Court ruled that the loving couple won the case against Virginia, the police, judges, and laws across the United States will stop persecuting and turn to recognize and protect interracial marriages. .
So the story of these two peaceful people became a turning point in American history.
And this case, through the Supreme Court, as a symbol of racial intermarriage and free love, is also a typical example of one in a thousand. The two lawyers in the film, thanks to the actors, are both opportunistic and not idealistic. They helped the loving couple, not so much in benevolence, but as a chance to make a name for themselves in the history of their careers. Even the two typical characters they chose for racial marriage: loving, honest, taciturn, docile, and unable to afford litigation costs; they are well-loved by the media and in line with the public imagination. Even their last name, loving, has the meaning of God's destiny, oh no, God's will. Two young lawyers, catching up with the historical trend in Li, took the future to political correctness as a bet, and won a milestone in their careers. Probably when they chose to take on this case, they had already imagined that someone would shoot this subject in the future.
But, in any case, the highlight of the film is that all political, legal, and social backgrounds are deliberately downplayed, and even the exciting Supreme Court debate is only a few quick shots, during which the daily life of the loving family is interspersed. Life. And the director focuses on the love between the loving couple. The two actors performed very well, especially the male lead. There are not many lines in the whole movie, but people have to believe that he loves his wife deeply. The most impressive clips: At the beginning of the film, after hearing that Milred was pregnant, he was slightly shocked and laughed happily; when the lawyer asked, what do you want me to convey to the Supreme Court justices, he said, please tell They I love my wife. You know, a long-term marriage faces more than the resistance of racial segregation. Being forced to leave the family, being detained, and leaving the homeland is already difficult. However, with the birth of children and the passage of time, daily love and marriage are the most difficult to manage. There is a bar scene in the middle. Richard returns to his hometown, back to the days when he was racing and drinking with his friends. A black friend said, you have so much trouble, wouldn't it be better to get a divorce? Yes, divorce is just a piece of paper missing, so they can live in the same place as usual without a lot of trouble. But richard loved his wife so much that for so many years he hadn't thought of this easy way.
Behind a woman, there must be a husband who loves her and dotes on her. This is the truth. A woman is only qualified to do anything to the world if she is completely loved. Mildred in the story is lucky, she met her husband, even in that era, for her be taken care of, they even changed the secular prejudice and laws of a country. During the expulsion from Virginia, just because she said she would go home to give birth, Richard just thought for a moment and said ok, knowing how much risk and responsibility behind these simple two letters. It was also mildred who tried to write to the president and got a call from a human rights lawyer saying that he would start an appeal. Richard was unwilling to hear it, but he also decided to support it. In the end, mildred decided to go back to the country to live, because he felt that the single-family villa in Washington was not enough for children to run, so richard got an endless piece of land and built a big house by the way. During the interview, mildred was interviewed by reporters. Although it was for the publicity of the case, in fact, she also had the element of vanity. She enjoyed the right to speak and was noticed, and she forgot the potential danger outside. Although richard was angry, it did not break her dream. Just do my best to take care of the family.
There are many scenes of richard laying bricks in the film, scattered in different paragraphs. Every time he lays the ground carefully and attentively, getting higher and higher, just like he is patiently and persistently building his own. nest. The only time he cried was when he told mildred that he could tare care of her. In the final subtitle of the film, an interview with the elderly mildred herself, she also said, richard took good care of her. And the home he built and protected, outsiders could see It was in that photo of watching TV while leaning on Milred's knee, the happy smiles of the two of them were frozen in time. Two little people in the torrent of history, because one wants to build a home for the other, it becomes a turning point in history. And these two ordinary people just love each other, and the others don't know it.
The only flaw that is not considered a flaw is the main theme of the screenwriter's American emperor, which makes me, as a Chinese, feel unreal when I play dramas from time to time. For example, the extreme police did not lynch the two when they locked them up. For example, even though the town judge was also a conservative, they could still hire a lawyer. For example, they could tirelessly give birth to three children under the pressure of life, such as a migrant worker brick. The bricklayer can afford a family of five, can afford the rent of a single-family building in Washington, the capital, and the husband and wife have their own cars. For example, there are human rights lawyers who file lawsuits for free. For example, the Supreme Court also ruled that the state government lost to the individual, and after the judgment, the place did not give small shoes. You must know that this is the United States in the 1960s. Compared with today's country X, the difficulty of the game is really not an ordinary simple mode. Today, more than 50 years later, even in China, where everyone looks alike, intermarriage still has regional discrimination, the same region is divided into urban and rural areas, and even in the same small place, there are differences in economy and background. . Not to mention love.
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