Spike Lee's "Black Consciousness" and "Black History"

Santino 2022-03-23 09:01:39

In the expression of "black consciousness", Spike Lee is the best of all directors. The film's satire of extreme white supremacist racism in the Ku Klux Klan is brilliantly done, exemplified by these two clips (David Duke's "baptism" of new key party members and black victims in black college students). In the cross-editing of personal narration at the rally), the director firstly has a clear political inclination in the language of the scenes showing the characters of the two parties (for example, the first editing of the two content is the narration of the black side; in the character scheduling, the black side emphasizes the closeness, while the white side emphasizes order; in terms of spatial expression, the black side uses shallow focus, and the white side uses deep focus; the above methods will not only deepen the viewer’s closeness identification, but also express the director’s attitude), however, can use The brutality experienced by black people directly satirizes the hypocrisy of extreme racism of white supremacy. The passage in which Ron goes to rescue Patrice is a typical "One Minute Rescue", and the editing method of "One Minute Rescue" has other meanings here, because let this method become the Griffith of the system, the typical performance of this method "The Birth of a Nation" is an important manifestation of white racism and black discrimination in history and film history.

Of course, Spike Lee's treatment of blacks and whites is not so biased. He looked at this issue from an objective point of view, otherwise he would not set the male protagonist as a black undercover police officer in a white police station, and the execution of the task was completed by the black Ron and the white Ron.

The racial issue of blacks and whites is not a historical issue, the reality is also constantly happening. Using a zoom lens to connect Patrice/Ron with the Ku Klux Klan who burned the cross in space shows that the conflict cannot be resolved in a short time. It confirms the recent tragedy that has intensified racial rivalry in Charlottetown.

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BlacKkKlansman quotes

  • David Duke: Ron Stallworth. are you a white, non- Jewish American citizen?

  • Ron Stallworth: You know, they say, two afros that touch together, it's good luck.

    Patrice Dumas: Who said that?

    Ron Stallworth: I read it somewhere.