2021.11.09
A racist movie, Coleman Silk is a child from a black family. His parents and siblings are all black, but he doesn't look like a black man at all. When he signed up for the U.S. Navy, he added a white man. . Since then, Coleman has always shown his identity as a Jew. His first girlfriend was Stina, a blond and blue-eyed white beauty. Although there was a good deal of chatting and laughing at the dinner table, there was no estrangement, but when he got on the train, Stina proposed with tears streaming down her face. broke up. When interacting with his second girlfriend, Coleman not only did not bring her to the house, but also lied that his parents were dead, that he had no siblings, and that he had cut off contact with his relatives since then. When his mother died, he was insane. In his later years, Coleman was forced to resign because he used the word "ghost", which contains the racist word "nigger", in his lectures. China has always been criticized by Western countries for not having freedom of speech. In fact, the so-called "political correctness" in the United States has reached an unimaginable level. It is ridiculous that a single inexplicable polysemous word can make a classical literature professor and dean lose his job. As long as Coleman told the truth, he could have easily dismissed the accusation of racism, but he didn't. Coleman built his life on lies. If Coleman was forced to do it at the time, now everyone in the United States is doing it and taking pride in it, "political correctness" has become the consensus of American society. Anti-racism has made freedom-loving Americans prisoners of "political correctness".
This is another movie about a year-old love. Coleman meets Faunia Farley, a woman who is only half his age. This woman has experienced ups and downs, and her fate has been tragic. Her two children died in the fire, and she herself died. When he returned, he was full of hostility, abandoned by his relatives, had nothing, no fixed place to live, and was entangled by his ex-husband Lester Farley from time to time, struggling on the edge of a difficult life. Coleman drew more criticism and trouble for his association with her, as his author friend Nathan Zuckerman advised him: "Every mistake a man is usually driven by sex, water can carry a boat, It can also capsize", but he did not change his infatuation, and decided that "she is not my first love, nor my true love, but she is my last love." After some words, Nathan was speechless and shut up obediently. Coleman's care made her yearn and resist, so that she was moody. In fact, she was a kind and considerate woman in her heart. After calming down, she finally accepted Coleman's love. Just as they were about to walk through the future together, they were killed in a car accident by her ex-husband, Lester Farley, who was identified as a paranoid.
If the unfortunate encounter of Sayunia is more of a personal tragedy, then the life that Kolker was forced to hide is a tragedy for American society as a whole. So, Coleman's tragedy is not so much a stain on human nature as it is a stain on American society.
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