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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Extended Reading
  • Hannah 2022-04-22 07:01:07

    The guy who drove the car into the crowd was jailed for over 400 years, and David Duke's godson became an anti-hate activist.

  • Clemens 2022-03-17 09:01:04

    This is the kind of film that never knows how to evaluate it. The theme is too serious and serious, and the background is a history written with human life and blood and sweat. I feel that the audience in many places didn't know whether to laugh or not. When the lights came on after the screening, half of the theater was black and half white, and they were all silent. The ending was too heavy. BMG is very instigating and brainwashing.

BlacKkKlansman quotes

  • [first lines]

    Dr. Kennebrew Beauregard: Hello, my fellow Americans. They say we may have lost the battle but we didn't lose the war. Yes, my friends, we are under attack. You may have read about this in your local newspapers or seen it on the evening news. That's right. We are living in an era marked by the spread of integration and miscegenation. The Brown decision. The Brown decision, forced upon us by the Jewish-controlled puppets on the U.S. Supreme Court, compelling white children to go to school with an inferior race, is the final nail in a coffin, is the final nail in a black coffin towards America becoming a mongrel nation. We had a great way of life. We had a great way of life. We had a great way of life. We had a great way of life until the Martin Luther Coons of this world and their army of Commies started their civil rights assault against our holy white Protestant values. Do you really want your precious white child going to school with Negroes? They're lying, dirty monkeys, stopping at nothing to gain their equality with white men. Rapists, murderers, craving the virgin white, is it "virgin pure"? Rapists, murderers, craving the virgin pure flesh of white women. They are super predators! And the Negro's insidious tactics, under the tutelage of high-ranking, blood-sucking Jews, using an army of outside northern black beast preda... agitators. God, watch this! God! Using an army of outside northern black beast agitators determined to overthrow the God-commanded and biblically inspired rule of the white race. It's an international Jewish conspiracy. May God bless us all.

  • [last lines; in video footage]

    Donald J. Trump: [referring to the Charlottesville riots] You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists. You also had people that were very fine people.

    David Duke: Because I believe that today in Charlottesville, this is a first step toward making a realization of something that Trump alluded to earlier in the campaign, which is... This is the first step toward taking America back.

    Charlottesville Riot Protestor #1: I had to jump out of the way. I almost got hit by the car my fucking self. There are people, bodies laying on the ground right now.

    Charlottesville Riot Protestor #2: And there was a woman laying there, hardly breathing, and we ended up rolling her over, and she died.

    Charlottesville Riot Protestor #1: This is my town! We did not want them motherfuckers here!