Although the duration is more than 3 hours, the story of the film is not complicated. During the American Civil War, Cameron, the owner of the southern manor, and his children Cameron and Stoneman's children were studying in a boarding school together, and the two children fell in love with each other. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Benjamin joined the southern camp and went to the battlefield, and became rivals with the former friends of the North, the Stoneman Brothers, and finally the North won. Lincoln was assassinated in the theater, and Stoneman, who was in power, sent Lynch, a black man, to the South to organize the elections of the once black slaves. Lynch, on the other hand, manipulated the election privately, in an attempt to establish a "nation" belonging to blacks, becoming the dictator of this "nation", and inciting racial conflicts and violence. In the end, Benjamin organized the KKK to use violence to control violence, ending Lynch's evil plan.... The KKK completely became the embodiment of justice in the film and became the hero of salvation, while the black people were savage, greedy, Evil devil destroys this "peaceful" land.......
As a director of that era, and for his contributions to the art of film, Griffith is undoubtedly a heavyweight in film history. Parallel editing, one-minute rescue, these highly creative film narrative innovations have greatly enriched and inspired the development of film art. Coupled with the big scenes that Griffith is keen on, the epic temperament and commercial elements that the grand narrative endows the film, there is a compliment like "The movie started with Griffith". Technically, Griffith was a pioneer and trailblazer of his time, and ideologically, he was even more extreme and went further... This famous and controversial landscaping 3K Party, a white nationalist film that vilifies black people, has a strong personal political leaning. In that era, many films involved political appeals and positions. The class struggle in Metropolis, for example, ends with a handshake and peace. Such as the brutal Odessa stairs in "Battleship Potemkin". These works construct stories and express themes according to the political environment and social structure of the country in which they are located, so-called conforming to the mainstream. And Griffith, as an American director, must be very sensitive to racial discrimination, the main contradiction at the very core of the United States. And he also used such an ideologically amazing work to openly express his racial position and political appeal. This kind of "sudden self" seems to be especially prone to happen to artists.…
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