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Mississippi is burning
Rozella 2021-12-08 08:01:49
"Mississippi is Burning" is a film filmed in 1988 about the human rights issues of black Americans in the 1960s, based on real historical events. In 1964, in a small town in the southern state of Mississippi, two Jewish boys and a black boy disappeared. They were both members of a human rights organization. Two FBI agents came to the town to investigate the case. What they see here is not a simple disappearance or murder, but a blazing flame of hatred. The first shot of the film is two drinking fountains, each with a sign, one with "white people" and the other with "colored people". In this small town where the apartheid system is still practiced, from the mayor to the police to many ordinary white citizens have extreme prejudice and even hatred towards black people. Where does this hatred come from? What kind of hatred can drive people to kill and set fire to destroy their homes without guilt or pity? The same hatred caused tens of millions of Jews to be massacred during World War II. The film does not seem to be able to answer this question well. The background of this film is exactly the climax of the black civil rights movement in the United States. The U.S. Congress passed three collectively known as the "Second Emancipation Proclamation" in 1964, 1965, and 1968. The Civil Rights Act of the People’s Republic of China completely ended the apartheid and racial discrimination system in law. The case in the film is a real case and is considered a landmark case in the civil rights movement. However, the film did not intend to be made into a documentary, especially the second half, which is simply a Hollywood-style justice-making film with a somewhat old-fashioned plot. I don't know if the film wants to satirize the FBI's ability to do things. In the film, those FBI agents are dressed in dark suits and look silly, and 200 FBI agents are recruited, but there is no progress. In the end, it was the old agent played by Gene Hackman who recruited his former sergeant's subordinates, and finally managed the murderers of the 3K Klan. The film's director Alan Parker once directed the famous British film Pink Floyd The Wall.
Extended Reading
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[Ward stops Anderson from taking vigilante action against Pell]
Ward: We'll go after all of them. Together.
Anderson: You wouldn't know how!
Ward: You're going to *teach me* how.
Anderson: You don't have the GUTS!
Ward: Not only do I HAVE the guts I have the AUTHORITY!
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Television Commentator: Your name, please.
Clayton Townley: Clayton Townley, local businessman.
Television Commentator: Are you, sir, a spokesman for the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan?
Clayton Townley: I told you, I'm a businessman. I'm also a Mississippian, and an American! And I'm getting SICK and TIRED of the way us Mississippians are getting our views distorted by you newsmen and on the TV. So let's get this straight. We do NOT accept Jews, because they REJECT Christ! And their control over the International Banking Cartels are at the root of what we call Communism today. We do not accept Papists, because they bow to a Roman dictator! We do not accept Turks, Mongrels, Tartars, Orientals nor Negroes because we are here to protect Anglo-Saxon Democracy, and the American way!
Television Commentator: Thank you very much.
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Roger Ebert's film review translation
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Burn the chronic diseases of society with persistence
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A human rights film with turbulent and contradictory plots, a classic masterpiece that deeply reflects racial discrimination
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Anti-racism road is obstructive and long
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Facts and fiction in the film (from the New York Times)