The film was released in the following year of "911 Incident". Director Spike Lee and his works are deeply influenced by New York regional culture. He will definitely mention this disaster in New York in the film. In addition to the scenes of cleaning up the rubble, Monty's choice also alludes to the American's choice to deal with disasters, whether to flee to the west and build a new life like Monty's grandfather fled from Ireland to the United States, or stay here and face misfortune and Painful, waiting for rebirth after seven years?
When faced with a disaster, if it was the old immigrant of Grandpa Monty's generation, it must be a habitual choice to continue to flee; when it came to the "second generation" father, he began to struggle with how to choose, and he had the idea of escape but was not determined to do it; All the way up to Monty's generation, where everything was rooted in him, as a native American, the material and emotional cost of running away would be greater, so the idea of running away would be less.
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