May 25
Black man killed by violent law enforcement in Minnesota
So far, nationwide riots have begun in the United States
The American people are accompanied by the fear brought about by the epidemic
Anger over violent law enforcement and racism
Riots intensify
26th
Minneapolis police use tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters
28th
Demonstrators even took over the police station in Minneapolis
29th
Protests have swept through at least five cities
June 1
Protests broke out in over 75 cities, more than 40 cities announced curfew
Over 4,100 protesters arrested
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On the 28th, in Minneapolis, a protester ran with an American flag (picture from the Internet)
US President Trump tweets
Threats to use force against rioters
"When the looting starts, the shooting starts," he said forcefully.
same racial issue
Also caused by the killing of a black man by a white police officer
This riot easily reminds people of the "Detroit riot" that also occurred in the United States more than half a century ago
【Detroit DETROIT】
The 1967 Detroit riots were one of the deadliest riots in U.S. history
The riot took place on July 23, 1967 in Detroit, an American city known as the "Motor City" at the time
and lasted five days
43 people died
467 injured
Over 7,200 arrests
and more than 2,000 buildings damaged
"Detroit" is directed by one of America's most prestigious female directors, Kathryn Bigelow, who won the 82nd Academy Award for Best Director for "The Hurt Locker" and beat out the best director at the 82nd Academy Awards by ex-husband James Kathryn "Avatar," directed by Mellon James Cameron, won the Oscar for best picture that year.
The film was released in North America in 2017. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the Detroit riots in 1967. The screenplay of the film also came from Mark Boal, who created "The Hurt Locker", as a typical three-act play. The first act of "Detroit" recreated the mess in Detroit when the riots broke out. The whole film was shot by hand. A documentary, the film shows us the gathering crowd, the destroyed buildings, the burning streets everywhere, and the armed forces suppressing the crowd.
This series of extremely realistic pictures shows us the situation in Detroit at that time, or more precisely the situation in which the black people living in Detroit were in the situation. At that time, the United States had just ended the Vietnam War. However, what the film wanted to show is almost a living battlefield.
But when we look at this American film three years ago about events that happened more than fifty years ago, you will find that it does not seem to be different from the current American society.
Extremely differentiated social hierarchies have given birth to increasingly fierce racial conflicts. We can clearly see why all these problems cannot be eradicated in just ten minutes. The director and screenwriter did not shy away from turning all the white images into villains in this scene. The black girl who was killed by the bombing and the black youth who was shot while escaping, these innocent deaths formed a sharp contrast with the white police.
Of course, these highly provocative plots were the same as thousands of mainstream politically correct movies in the United States at the time. However, when they are combined into the current context of the United States, what they bring to people The space for reflection becomes huge, and the reactionary atmosphere it creates becomes more intense. The audience can only watch everything happening in front of them helplessly, and finally it becomes as insignificant as every white policeman who has killed black people said, and finally It's over.
The film's first act also introduces us to several of the film's main characters, the extreme racist policeman Klaus Krauss, played by British actor Will Poulter. As a white police officer in Detroit, Krause's role was mirrored by the local white group. All his behavioral logic was based on the deeply ingrained social class in the United States at that time. When Krause saw a black man holding Shooting him as he walks out of the store with stolen merchandise is a no-brainer, even if he's just a thief.
Krause's role is extreme, but an equally extreme role is young black musician Larry Larry, a handsome, humorous and polite man who struggles with his musical dreams in Detroit, a near-perfect man. The male characters and the obnoxious white cops quickly and resolutely divide the film's people of different colors into two distinct opposites, and this antagonism of good and evil continues until the end of the film.
In such a role setting, the audience will of course be angry about what happened to Larry in the movie, but this anger does not originate from the black community, but from this perfect black character, Katherine Like all other white directors who shoot black subjects, they dare not discuss the black group further. Of course, they may never know about the black group, but this kind of overkill does effectively cater to the tone of mainstream values, and In today's view, it seems that overkill is not enough.
The second act of the film is triggered by a prank by a black man living in a motel, where an angry black man fires a sports flare gun at a patrolling white police officer, an act that brings in the white police officer led by Krause. .
The strong plot of the entire second act promotes the progress of the film. The police interrogate the black people in a row facing the wall. This kind of concentration camp-like environment is shaped, accompanied by the police's escalating violent law enforcement in the extremely narrow hotel corridor. Makes every minute of the film unbearable.
Of course, the director and screenwriter knew that the entire Detroit riots could not be explained clearly in a short film, so they microcosm the violence into this small hotel corridor, which is undoubtedly an extremely clever method, here Each of the characters symbolically corresponds to the group behind them, and of course all black characters correspond to "political correctness".
The appearance of the two white girls is the only positive white character in the film so far. When the police broke into the room and found the two white girls staying with a black man, the expression on the white policeman's face slowly changed from surprise to surprise. Disgusted, he would only think that the two girls were instigated by the black pimp in front of him and became prostitutes, and he couldn't help but say.
The film needs a white girl to mediate this intense black-and-white conflict, because she is a relatively positive white character who witnessed and experienced this "concentration camp" interrogation firsthand, even though she also hates these violent Detroit police, and Sympathy for what happened to the black people present, but after the incident, she still identified a black person as the murderer at the police station. The film gives a hint that she is forced, but this role is the position of ordinary white people all along, who scoff at racism and understand human rights, but when it comes, they will not suffer any damage, at least not. is life.
The right to speak is firmly in the hands of the white elite from beginning to end, and this is the proposition that the third act of "Detroit" presents to the audience. Even in the United States, which has already had a black president, and even if everyone holds high the ideological and political banner of equal rights, it is only a matter of time before nationalist sentiment ignites.
The end of the film shows us the helplessness of reality, and the three white police officers suspected of murder are all acquitted. They are the beneficiaries of the social class, and this innate capital enables them to freely walk on the edge of the law and escape, especially when the opposite is a group of black people with no social status. The film is adapted from real events. This ending is not the reality that the creators deliberately want to bring to the audience, but everything that has happened in the real world.
Alluding to this riot in the United States today, the participants are no longer all black, and the ideological education for more than 50 years has allowed most Americans to understand what is right. But this is still in vain, and affirmative action is just a slogan from beginning to end. Whether it is a true ultra-nationalist or every white mass involved in this riot, "black" has already become a simple symbol in American society and politics, just like this group has been exploited time and time again by mainstream Hollywood movies Same, FREEDOM was erased before it was finished...
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