The cycle of hatred? A friendly reunion?

Sherman 2022-04-19 09:01:03

"I killed two people, and this still hasn't made me feel calm." Even if it hasn't calmed down yet, the ruffian's heart is still terrifying. Just watching it once made me repeatedly feel that understanding culture can also make people vulnerable, which is a strange feeling, akin to the momentary loss of security and a little worship of destruction. This is bullshit. But looking back at Edward Norton in this one, Derek's character punched me like a beast's fist when I put aside the first impressions he gave me in "The Veil" and "Fight Club." Boxing, like the consolation of tolerance after becoming a good citizen, has repeatedly deepened my impression of this bag of archives.

"Derrick said that the end of the article should use famous words...", Danny's death may be more expressive than famous words. There is still a dark continuation of the status quo of racial issues in the United States, and this helplessness is reflected in several places in the film. :

In Danny's school report, he appeared as a ruffian who was still childish. He touched his bald head with both hands, and he could see the exposed tattoos prominently. The black man snorted arrogantly, and most of his status quo came from his brother, a complete continuation.

In black-and-white recollections, their father's words to Derek and Danny at a common family dinner when they were alive had a bone-chilling racial thought, when they still had hair and agreed school education. When the next generation grows up, school education may be far less than the influence of family environment in their awareness of racial issues.

And for the non-white race, this kind of hatred is also continued simultaneously. The unreasonable hostility to Derek in the prison. At the end, Danny's black classmates finally shot the bullet ruthlessly. Derek, who has become a "good citizen", is desperate. He threw himself down beside his brother's body, and this almost endless despair seemed to have been reincarnated in that land.

The film gives an objective and realistic thinking environment, and the problem must be solved. I love this one!

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  • Murray: I'm so sorry Doris. I really am. He's gone.

    Doris Vinyard: He's just a boy. Without a father.

    Murray: Doris, you don't know the world your children are living in.

  • Bob Sweeney: This racist propaganda, this "Mein Kampf" psychobabble; he learned this nonsense, Murray, and he can unlearn it too. I will not give up on this child yet.