The second half of the movie "Do What You Should" was basically watched with heartbreak. It turned out to be the reference text for the best film "Les Miserables" at the Caesar Awards, but the stamina of "Do What You Should" Really enough. In addition, I just re-watched Mr. Dai Jinhua's film and the 1960s, and the three texts were superimposed together, which was really interesting. As a block movie, the first half of the film has a strong comedy color, which is why it has such a big impact on me when violence inevitably occurs. The music "FIght the power" at the beginning of the film appears in high frequency in the first three quarters of the film. Whenever the "Recorder" boy appears, Fight the power is exactly the track played in the recorder. As the soundtrack, it is internalized in the text of the film. In the lyrics, "Elvis is a hero to most people, but shit to me...My heroes, don't appear on stamps." It is the fuse of violence in the film that arises Intertextuality, like the question posed in the movie "Why are there only Al Pacino and De Niro on the wall and no Jordan?" "You like black stars too." "Different, none of them are black, I mean, Let me explain, they're not really black, they're black, but not really." There is no cultural identity between the white Italian and black ethnic groups, they don't share the same logic, they have their own cultural context. Spike. In the film, Li presents an omniscient perspective. The director is very restrained in the logic of the film, and only presents the group portraits of characters living in the same block to the audience. The pizza shop owner's sense of belonging to this block he has worked hard for half his life, and the shaping of the character of "Old Mayor" are all presented positively, but the undercurrent of violence is hidden in the film. "Hot" is one of the most frequently mentioned words in the film. Under the oblique wide-angle lens, the sweat on the character's face, including the oblique composition, is oppressive and aggressive. The use of large-area color blocks, the large orange and blue color blocks in the black block, and other color science hints to psychology are also intentional by the director. The occurrence of violence is inexplicable. As an audience, my moral scale is not inclined to one side, because the previous article has a lot of foreshadowing that I have a sense of identity for everyone. The story happened on the same day, two black people were mad at the pizza shop owner because of some seemingly "minor" little things. The two have since reunited because they both feel equally offended. When the angry pizza shop owner uttered the word "nigger", the black community at the scene began to participate in the violent confrontation. Then everything started to get out of hand. Yes, they attacked the pizza shop they had been very identified with, from snack to big. The excessively violent law enforcement by the police who came after that led to the death of the recorder boy, and the black group set fire to the pizza shop. In fact, the crack has always been there, but when you don't open it, you don't notice it. At the end of the movie, everything will return to its original appearance, but the cross-cultural context and cross-ethnic cracks still exist. It is the famous Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Violence is impractical as a means of achieving racial equality, because it ultimately leads to a downward spiral of destruction. An eye for an eye is old." The law blinds everyone because it humiliates its opponent instead of winning its understanding, tries to annihilate instead of changing it, because it breeds hatred instead of love. It makes society have monologues instead of dialogue, Violence can only be ended by defeating it." Then came Malcolm X's "But at the same time I am not against the use of violence in self-defense." The dual texts run side by side, and violence never has more than one facet.
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