Disappointed

Serenity 2022-03-22 09:02:28

The artistically unsuccessful Ku Klux Klan propaganda film, the only consolation in more than three hours:

1. The big girls and the little girls are very beautiful and lovely.

2. The soldiers returned to their hometown after the war and wandered for a long time in front of the porch by the side of the dilapidated and desolate streets. The little sister who had grown up came out to greet each other, and they were happy to meet each other. After entering the door, the side shot shows that before entering, an old and vicissitudes of life hand hugs the soldier's arm, and the scene ends like this. It's really beautiful, restrained and reserved, with infinite emotions.

Lots of pitfalls:

1. There are no narrative methods, just plain and straightforward narrative, no swaying and interspersed, I can't believe that it is the same director as "Party and Differing".

2. The actual war scenes did cost a lot of effort and money in those days, but they were long and boring and uninteresting.

3. Except for the two black villains who are slightly sensual, other characters are all pale.

4. The slightly important black characters were played by white people in black, and the painting was uneven. I was very confused. When the real black people appeared in the back, I felt relieved, but they were all natural and pleasing to the eye. It is said that makeup artists should go to the mysterious East to learn the blackening technique of pretending to be Bao Gong.

5. Like "Party and Diversity", there is an inexplicable ending that is forced into it.

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Extended Reading
  • Jedidiah 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    The first feature film, the highest-grossing silent film. It has had a huge impact in the field of film and culture. Film technology has made some major breakthroughs. It has created classical editing (cross-editing and parallel editing at the end of the film). It is the first time to use phosphor lamps to shoot night scenes. Through lens movement and panoramic lens to create continuous miles The large-scale spatial sense of war and large-scale action scenes; the cultural level has been controversial, and due to the era of racist political ideology, the violent behavior of the KKK has been rationalized as an action to rebuild the integrity of the government. The birth of the so-called state is actually an invisible The birth of the country, the harm to people of color is immeasurable. As a result, the KKK still uses this film as a recruitment tool. The first half of the film tells the tragic fate of the North and South families during the Civil War until Lincoln was assassinated and the Northern Army won. The second half focuses on the reconstruction of the South after the war and the "glorious" rise of the KKK. It is assumed that blacks raped white women and controlled them. Political elections and other plots to intimidate the audience

  • Marley 2022-03-18 09:01:05

    [Golden Rogue 2006-12-13. Watch a few times and sleep a few times] Can’t be in place anymore

The Birth of a Nation quotes

  • intertitle: ...The policy of the congressional leaders wrought... a veritable overthrow of civilization in the South... in their determination to 'put the white South under the heel of the black South.' WOODROW WILSON

  • intertitle: The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country. WOODROW WILSON