Talk about the origin of the United States and the background of the film. Don't be confused.

Theo 2022-12-05 18:56:54

A long time ago, there were Indians living on the land of the United States, which was sparsely populated and wild.

Italian navigator, wandering the sea, discovering a new world: America.

Britain, France, Spain and other countries developed maritime navigation, and successively came to the Americas to establish colonies.

Later, some people who were marginalized by their own countries, such as those who escaped wars, religious persecution, criminals, immigrated to the Americas.

Colonial rulers made efforts to transport black Africans to the Americas.

Colonial pain rulers made up stories that there were gold mines in the Americas to deceive people from all over the world to immigrate to the Americas, and China also had 20,000 laborers.

Gradually, these people adapted to life in the Americas and made it their home. All kinds of immigrants did not want to be controlled by their own country. The colonies began to revolt for independence.

Establish the United States of America. Of course, the establishment of a country is also due to the competing interests of Britain and France, weakening the hegemony and attacking each other.

First President of the United States: Washington. If you look up his ancestry, it may be British, because Washington was born in America, so after the founding of the country, he was American.

Although there is a unified country, the United States is a United States, and the ideas of the South and the North are different. Among them, the North abolished slavery and the South insisted on slavery.

This is the beginning of the film. The two forces are fighting, the American Civil War. Some black people are slaves in the manor. These people's manor is the South. They hope that the North will win, so that there will be no slavery.

At that time, Western European countries were colonies in the New World of America.


The film begins with the story of black people working as slaves in the southern United States, without the right to speak, doing the work of cleaning, cooking, cleaning, and planting. Even offering sex to white people. Later, the American Civil War, the victory of the North, abolished slavery. In the middle of the movie, the statue that the heroine black girl saw when she escaped was the commander-in-chief of the Confederacy: Robert Edward Lee, who looked the same as the bearded general who slept with the black girl in the movie. He is the culprit behind the insistence on slavery. In modern life, a black girl is the top of American society. Although he enjoys superior material conditions, he is still looked down upon by white people. There is no time-travel in the movie, just a few monologues like the beginning of the movie. Slavery has been abolished, but it has not been abolished, and until now, black people are still inferior. Cold-eyed. It just expresses the social status of black people in the United States through film techniques, which has not changed from the beginning to the present.

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  • Sarah: The unresolved past can certainly wreak havoc on the present.

  • Him: [staggers out of a cabin after having just killed Eli] "Eden...!"

    Veronica: [forcefully whispers to Him after stabbing Him with his own bayonet] "My names... is Veronica!"