Now rewatching the film again, combined with what is happening in the United States at the moment, makes people sigh. Racism is the most primitive and stubborn narrow-mindedness of human beings. It often hovers in human society like a ghost. Whenever the economy and society declines, it will ravage the crowd like a plague. When social contradictions become increasingly acute, people will transfer the contradictions to a certain ethnic group that opposes them, let anger go to their heads, and even kill each other in serious cases.
In fact, the essence of the problem is not in other ethnic groups or social injustice, but in our own hearts. We should ask ourselves: Have I ever tried to make my life better? Instead of passing the buck to a pre-set imaginary enemy. As Danny said in his report: Hate is a burden, life is short, don't get angry, it's not worth it at all, let's see the nature of human beings in a better light.
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