Detroit, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, was born to commemorate the riots that shocked America 50 years ago.
Speaking of Katherine Bigelow, everyone should know that this female director, who directed "The Hurt Locker" (won the 2010 Oscar "Best Film and Best Director" two Oscar statuettes), and then in 2013 She was nominated for Best Picture for "Hunting Bin Laden" in 2009, and she is definitely a powerful female director.
Back to the movie itself.
Under such a riot in Detroit that shocked the United States, Kathryn Bigelow chose to focus on a disturbing true story that happened under a motel called Algiers at the time.
The story revolves around a few key characters.
1. , Larry (Larry) who dreams of becoming a singer
At a concert on the night of the incident, when he was going to perform on the stage (the next round will be the group he led), but due to the riots, a curfew was imposed, and the entire concert was suddenly cancelled, and all the audience and players were asked to leave. Unwilling but helpless, Larry was reluctant to leave at the end, standing alone on the first stage and singing the song he prepared tonight.
2. Fred, Larry's sidekick, who didn't back down in the face of death threats was eventually shot
3. Julie, one of the two white women in the incident.
4. Carl (Carl), the first to take the lunch, used a track and field flare gun to lead all the army police to the hotel. After realizing the seriousness of the incident, he wanted to run away, but was shot directly by the policeman Klaus. .
5. Lee (Lee), Carl's friend.
6. Dismukes (Dismukes), a member of the United Security Company, followed the army to the hotel on the night of the incident and almost witnessed the whole thing, but was later wronged.
7. Krauss, Town Patrol
During a patrol, a black man who stole was found. During the pursuit, he fired two shots from the back and hit the target. Afterwards, he reported to his boss as Miss (not hit), but he still pretended to be ignorant when he was found out. It's just a sentence of Sorry but no regrets.
The sheriff later accused Krause of murder, but Krause didn't take it to heart. "If he has a weapon in his hand, that's another story." The sheriff's remark made Krause think of ways to avoid charges.
The Algiers motel incident:
After the killer Carl fired the flare gun, the army, Michigan State Police, and local patrolmen led by Klaus immediately arrived and opened fire on the house. Everyone fell down to avoid bullets. As the gunshots stopped, Karl was about to run away but was caught by Claus. Without saying a word, he also fired two shots in the back, and Karl lay on the ground, blood dripping.
At this point, Klaus picked up the knife he had prepared and put it next to Karl, forging evidence that he was holding a weapon to resist.
Karl, who was lying on the ground unable to move, also shed tears of regret.
Klaus followed the interpretation of Dethmux who came later, Karl had to shoot him in an attempt to take the gun, and everything happened too fast and suddenly (I personally feel that Dethmux is not the same when I watch it here. Not believing what he said, but having no evidence, just said the following: "I think you have to defend yourself").
Afterwards, the Krauses frantically asked all the suspects in the house about the whereabouts of the snipers (in fact, there were no snipers). The Michigan State Police left after seeing the crazy Detroit police officers and did not want to participate in the confession.
Then, in order to find the sniper, Klaus and others played a death game against the suspects in the house. They brought one of the suspects, Li, into the room, and shot into the empty space to intimidate the suspect. One shot will hit the suspect. Seeing that there was no movement in the room, the others thought that the person who was brought into the room had been shot by Klaus, and Klaus and others used this method to extort a confession.
During the period, two white women, Julie and Karen, were released by them. They both knew that the two women were not snipers. .
There was no progress in arbitrarily extracting a confession. Klaus and others originally planned to take Li (the first suspect who was entered into the room for a death game) away, but during the period when they were forcing the others, Li was released by one of the soldiers.
After discovering that Li had escaped, Klaus and others planned to continue the game of death and took one of the black people, Aubrey. Unexpectedly, one of the patrolmen did not know that the game of death was only used to intimidate, but instead shot the black Aubrey.
With Aubrey's death, things almost got out of hand. Klaus just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible, but he didn't want to be involved, so he threatened everyone not to reveal anything that happened tonight.
Both Greene and Larry chose to hide things and fled the scene.
However, Fred did not intend to hide the truth, and was then shot and killed by Claus directly.
The scene of the Algiers motel is definitely the most breath-taking scene in the whole film. The director uses a handheld shooting method, and the sense of change of reality and reality makes the audience feel as if they are watching a real documentary. In the minutes of interrogation, intimidation, insults, and beatings were staged in turn. Klaus and others used the search for the suspect as an excuse to implement the justice in their hearts, whether it was intentional murder or accidental murder, they tried to cover up their crimes.
Paper can't cover the fire, and a group of police surrounded a hotel outside, and three black people died inside, no one knew. Soon the event spread throughout the United States.
The police station soon conducted an investigation, and Dethmeux was brought back to the police station as a suspect.
Two of Krause's partners gave accounts of what happened that night. Klaus had to appoint a lawyer to defend himself.
The whole movie can be divided into three scenes, the first is the Detroit riot, the second is the questioning of the Algiers motel, and the third is the following court defense.
This court debate is almost one-sided. The defense lawyers are in complete control of the entire lawsuit. Among all the witnesses who testified in court, the testimony of white people was either questioned or overturned, and black people were asked about their past criminal records and were distrusted or led. out of court.
The judge finally declared their confessions inadmissible
The jury also acquitted both conductors.
At the moment of hearing innocence, Fred's father's painful expression was completely unacceptable to this result.
As for Klaus, really TM is scum.
Faced with such a shameless scum, Desmukes even vomited outside the courtroom.
The story ends with the whereabouts of several main characters.
After receiving death threats, Dethmeux moved to the suburbs to work as a security guard for companies such as Sears Roebuck.
Although the three police officers were acquitted, they did not hold the same high-level positions as before.
Years later, a civil court found one of the officers guilty and ordered him to pay Aubrey's family, but only $5,000.
Fred's family took the city of Detroit to court for the accidental death of Fred, eventually reaching a settlement, and the city was acquitted
of Carl's starting gun, which has been missing.
Julie L. left Detroit, raised four children, and is now a hairdresser.
The Dramatics (Larry's Band, The Performers) made their name in the 1970s with several hits and continues to this day. Music career, while Larry never joined the band, he still lived in Detroit and worked in the church choir.
Personal experience:
After the whole film, the final result is really unacceptable. The perpetrators escaped through the law, and the victims did not get the justice they deserved. The dead have left, and the living have to continue to suffer.
While we all yearn for justice for all victims in the world, the truth often slaps us hard in the face. Some people escaped, like Klaus in this film, and some people did not get justice until many years later, like the "Burim Incident" in the movie "The Defender" that caused a topic in Korean society, five people who were convicted 33 years ago. A defendant was found not guilty by a court decades later, clearing up years of grievances. But no matter what the result is, this is the slap in the face of that extremely heavy history, and we must reflect on ourselves from this history.
In my opinion, discrimination historically tends to be a group, and a race in particular. However, in today's world, discrimination can be an individual, a region, or a behavior. It can be said that discrimination is ubiquitous in today's society, but I think what is more terrifying is not just discrimination, but the more negative emotions and behaviors that accompany discrimination - abuse, violence, etc. We must reflect on ourselves every day, improve our moral cultivation, always be vigilant about ourselves, and never become that kind of person.
Let’s chat casually:
1. I really like the shooting method of this movie. The hand-held shooting and the virtual and real zoom are a kind of pseudo-documentary method, which makes the whole film look more real.
2. The entire Algiers motel incident may just be a more famous incident in the Detroit commotion, and in such a large environment, Krause may be just a microcosm of it.
3. While discriminating against others, we are actually pursuing something called superiority.
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