I believe that every viewer who has watched "BlacKkKlansman" will be shocked by the real image at the end of the film, especially after the upside-down black and white American flag is released. Even those who feel that Spike Lee's dissatisfaction with "white supremacy" is very full and ready to give a standing ovation or secretly applaud at the end, when they see those pictures, they will have a mixed taste and feel on pins and needles. This feeling is similar to "The Terrorist Attack on Boston". "The ending full of positive energy is completely opposite, full of love, it is difficult for us to think about the author's intention and practical significance, but it is easy to be immersed in caring and unable to extricate ourselves.
At the end of "BlacKkKlansman", we can easily feel uneasy, feel the author's anger hidden under the film's surface from the beginning, and look at the struggle and watch of racial politics and even social politics on the other side of the ocean.
"The Birth of a Nation" is a landmark film in film history, but the film, which is defined as the first commercial masterpiece, has been widely criticized for being extremely unfriendly to the black community, although David Griffiths The innovation in film technique is unprecedented.
Therefore, in the film, the small town KKK gathered and watched "The Birth of a Nation", forming a very interesting combination. On the one hand, the racial concepts of the two sides coincided, and the sense of discrimination reached a high degree of unity. The two things that reflect extreme discrimination are In a film that depicts a comedy frame, it appears in a less deliberate way, slightly comical and full of black humor; on the other hand, after the screening of "The Birth of a Nation", the native white people who were infected by the film's emotions were no longer able to. Breaking away from the values conveyed by the film, the result is that black people are treated unfairly and persecuted. At this moment, putting the KKK together with "The Birth of a Nation" undoubtedly puts racial sentiment in an obvious position and incites Watching "BlacKkKlansman" viewers' guarding against correct political ideas.
The entire film of "BlacKkKlansman" seems to incite the political sentiment of the viewers. It is not a film that requires progressive emotions, because the original cognition of politics and equality is understood in the context of today's peaceful coexistence. The common tone of heart and cognition makes it easy for the director to shape empathy. What the director has to do and must do is to continuously incite the emotions of our audience and maintain a high degree of unity between the audience and the film. In this, Spike Lee seems to be successful.
The first speech appeared shortly after the film began, and the speaker was also a "speech expert". This speech was indeed quite provocative. Every word and sentence was loud, and Spike Lee edited some writing. face full of expectations do interludes, selfless and pure blacks put concerted efforts of the state, so the audience expectations derived from innate sense of disadvantaged groups (black community) close this way, homeopathy and throw a puzzle " this relates to The right struggle for the fate of the race must be fought for its final answer "?
The protagonist Ron Stallworth bears the significance of this discussion. He said to his girlfriend: "Is the battle really necessary, someone is trying to solve the problem from the inside. " Following the protagonist's point of view, we see Stallworth's accent switching freely and thinking quickly when talking on the phone The wit of the job, we can also see that Stallworth's undercover has excellent team support, we see Stallworth who is forbearing, kind, and full of courage, but when the protagonist jumps to solve the problem of explosives on white women, the two white police officers The first reaction was so baffling and chest-thumping; or when the sheriff asked to destroy the case file to hide the truth, did we feel that all our efforts were sunk in our chests.
So Spike Lee throws out such a way of solving the problem from within and expands it into the narrative body, but the result presented is like the burning flame of the destruction dossier or the flaming flame of the 3K rally destruction cross, and the people's Emotions lead to anger.
The inability to disintegrate the internal contradictions inevitably leads to the necessity of external struggles. Inciting emotions is the first step, and it is also an important step in the film. Moreover, this sudden rise in emotion is caused by the opposition between black and white, but it is mutually dependent.
At the beginning of the promo with Alex Baldwin's character, when the "American First" slogan comes up and pays attention to the typicality of the characters in the shot, it's hard not to take this scene to symbolize something. And such a high degree of connection with reality, no matter whether the director intentionally or unintentionally inserted it (who believes it is unintentional!), at least from the beginning, one of the purposes of watching films is to find some kind of connection between the film and reality.
To successfully tell a story that touches people's hearts, the audience needs to slowly enter the story situation, the best, integrate with the characters, perceive the perception of the characters, and believe in the beliefs of the characters. The relationship between the language setting of the characters at the beginning of "BlacKkKlansman" and reality is undoubtedly close from the audience's point of view. The more chaotic the real American politics, the stronger the emotions shaped by this closeness, so that we don't need much agitation to enter The emotional highland that Spike piled up. Entering the story of Ron Stallworth, the emotions reached a peak at the first black meeting. Not only the black youths who attended the meeting were encouraged, but even the police officers who eavesdropped on the wall lamented that they were infected by the power of language.
Corresponding to the emotional climax of the first half is a cross-montage of the second half. The 3K party rallies are full of ceremonial gloom; black people surround the massacre survivors, listening to the story of the narrator, infecting the human power of real events. The scenes on both sides alternated back and forth, the volume and rhythm of the soundtrack continued to increase, and the audience's emotions continued to rise, forming another peak in the middle and later stages of the film. Ironically, the cross montage first appeared in The Birth of a Nation.
If you want to express disdain for a film, stand on its opposite and laugh at it in its own way. The text and scheduling of The Birth of a Nation, which borrows or reproduces, seems to be motivated by such sentiments. If it wasn't for the director Nate Parker scandal being revealed two years ago, a black version of The Birth of a Nation seems to be preparing for a racial Be one of the brightest stars in question movies. Two years after the black version was broken, Spike Lee once again stood on the opposite side of "The Birth of a Nation". Not only did the 3K rally collectively show "The Birth of a Nation" with the clumsiness of "white supremacy", it reappeared. Its most historically significant film technique is the more vigorous backlash incitement.
A summary of impassioned speeches, a cross-montage of step-by-step approaching, an angry flame burning at the foot of the cross, the black fighter Spike Lee has found a vent in the real world, and his catharsis is like his soundtrack. The waves pushed up a wave, and for a long time did not want to disperse.
Originally such a high-profile emotional catharsis was enough to prop up this movie, but almost everyone who had not watched this movie before did not expect that such emotional unfolding seems to be just a foreshadowing, and the passage of Li's emotional accumulation and explosion is not in the narrative. The text shows, rather, the immediate, unadorned shock of the documentary image at the end of the film's narrative.
The final video material comes from a violent incident that turned into a white racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017. The real image brings great lethality, and the previously restrained rendering of the film is naked. rose to political heights. Mainstream public opinion in the United States characterized the incident as " the vicious result of the rise of neo-Nazi and white nationalist movements ".
Since Trump took office, extreme racist ideas such as "white supremacy" in the United States have clearly made a comeback. The Trump administration has successively launched a "Muslim ban", built a border wall, reformed immigration policies and a series of attacks against diversity. Although the implementation of the policy is not achieved overnight, this process has greatly contributed to the division of American society, and "white supremacy" has gradually entered the political foreground. On the surface, this riot is the rise of extremist ideas in the United States, but in essence, it is the anger and dissatisfaction caused by the severe decline in the income of the American people and the increase in inequality.
So, the ignited anger and deep concern expressed in the context of Spike Lee became that star-spangled banner , indicting the imminent risks facing the country if Nazi-like extremism continued. It is very personal and full of warnings. This seems to be the reason why the director keeps stirring up emotions in the film. At the same time, it is more like the final result that ordinary people don't want to face. Critically so blunt, so ruthless, Spike Lee's final emotional outpouring is crazy enough.
The crit brought by the real image is very shocking, but it also seems to cover the emotional shaping of the film itself. The emotional catharsis outside the film like a storm dims the emotions belonging to the film, which is a bit too subjective and ignores ordinary audiences outside the racial group. The most direct manifestation of this perception is that the political appeal of the film is placed in an obvious position. But on the contrary, it is the best response of contemporary cinema to politics that the film leaves politics or implicitly expresses political criticism and vision.
In recent years, Hollywood has always produced a racially-oriented and politically oriented film every year to enter the awards season. "BlacKkKlansman" has this potential, because it is true that every cell in the whole film is expressing such an accusation, but the director The final madness leaves all the positive things advocated by universal values and is replaced by naked criticism, personal inclinations, and indignation at the collapse of the country. I wonder if the academics who sit across from the screen and watch movies can stand up to the tossing of black fighter Spike Lee?
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