This is an excellent film in terms of subject matter, content, lines, performance, and narrative. While expressing the artistry of the film, it puts the extremely sensitive and widespread issue of racial discrimination in American society under the spotlight. The distinctive swastika has considerable visual and spiritual impact on Norton, which can make people have a memory point of engraving on the film. Maybe many years later, when talking about discrimination and the film, it may be difficult to forget. Norton's strong Nazi imagery on the cover. The film's portrayal of discrimination focuses on a few highly incendiary speeches and actions, which should indeed be the true thoughts of many Americans, which are highly representative and have considerable social criticism.
But the problem is that the portrayal of racism in the front of the film is too strong and successful, so that people feel that the transformation of the Norton Brothers in the back is too idealistic and too serving the plot. The value orientation of the second half is too obvious, and its dramatic conflict has dropped significantly. In this way, when the anticlimactic film comes out, there will even be some backlash against the successful shaping of the Nazi-style discrimination in the first half. Where is the angry Norton who shot all the family and all the audience? If the film is extended by half an hour, the later transformation of Norton is polished and enriched, and if the output and conflict of values are at least as strong and true as the first half, it will be a more complete and good film.
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