Now seeing the freedom that the American people cry for, many people may not understand the meaning of this freedom. The word freedom at home is rarely touched upon. This history of freedom should belong to America, and to people with dark skin. It was during the American Civil War and the Civil War. The North-South disputes caused by the dissatisfaction of the northern people over the slavery system that had been practiced in the United States naturally referred to the black people who were regarded as a lowly race at that time. In the end, the Northern Army won by freeing the slaves, and a large number of blacks at that time joined their own struggle against the fate of their families for freedom. Freedom became the watchword of the people until now…
The film focuses on a series of social care and racial intensification conflicts triggered by a lost child case. In such a 2006 film, you can see many shadows of the film. The director will use the case as the driving force to focus on the current social problems in the United States in an all-round way. Of course, this also makes the narrative very difficult. Such a narrative method makes it difficult to control the overall structure of the story. Obviously, the story is somewhat out of balance at the end, and the director's results cannot be said to be very satisfactory. In the end, there are so many social issues mixed in a suspense drama, top-heavy you don't even know what you're watching. The story told in the film happened one night when the black police received a report that a white mother lost her child, and then the white mother assigned the murderer to the black people living in the black settlement area, which aroused strong protests from the local black people. , The story advances, the police have been trying to find the child, and the mother has also been helped by rescue teams organized by many mothers who have also lost their children. Under the perception of the rescue team and the black police, the white mother finally confessed the truth. This mentally broken mother is actually more like a helpless lost girl, and the child who suddenly descended on her chaotic life became her burden for the next few years, until a man appeared. This mother, who has always been dependent, tasted the taste of being dependent on others, but she was overwhelmed. In order to meet the man, she gave the child cough syrup every day so that the child could go to sleep early, until one day the child died after drinking all the cough syrup in the anger without the company of his mother. The mother who was close to schizophrenia secretly buried her child in the park... At this time, the black people who were discriminated against had already started a full-scale conflict with the police in order to claim justice...
The main actors are two actors, black actor Samuel L. Jackson and actress Julianne Moore. Among them, Julianne Moore's mentally unstable white mother is outstanding. In the final episode of her revealing the truth at the police station, the front camera and the low-angle camera fight back and forth. She has always been pale and panicked in the film, and she was helpless and helpless when she told the truth. I don't know what to do After the truth was revealed, the sudden excesses that occurred when she realized that she was wrong were very realistic.
The title of the film "Freedomland" translates to freedom zone. Then this free zone should represent the American society after slavery was abolished. Racial discrimination triggered by events in the film should have been the central theme of the film in my opinion. But after explaining the suspense story itself, it did not give a complete final result of the racial conflict in the film. When telling the main story of the case, the seriousness of the racial issue is not brought out, and the relationship between the two is very rigid in the film. That is to say, the search for children is one story, and the racial conflict is another story, but the main line of the film is to search for children. The beginning of the film is a dark tone of groping in the noise and the darkness at all times. After that, many volunteers who are self-organized are touching to search for missing children together, and then we see the social security conflict caused by the protest of black people at the end... In the end, everyone gathered together to commemorate the lost children and comforted and understood each other. The director is like saying that the social status quo, whether it is warm or dark, does exist between people. The director finally fixed the ending in the conflict, in fact, he wanted to tell the American audience that the racial issue exists all the time, like a bomb. As long as someone ignites it, it will explode in an instant, causing disaster. So the white mother in the film is the one who lit the bomb, but the bomb in the film is more like a small bomb at the end.
In fact, all films about social issues are nothing more than exploring human nature itself. Either realism or social themes. The coldness of people's hearts and the distance between people have become the main narrative roles of directors in this era since the birth of film stories. And the racial issues, feminism, etc. that American society is paying more and more attention to have become the most influential social voices after the industrial age. "Freedom" has also been something that this country has always pursued and is unavoidable, even for all human beings.
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