A classmate recommended me to watch the American movie "Crash", which turned out to be the movie that competed with Ang Lee's same-sex movie "Brokeback Mountain" for the Oscars. I almost missed a good movie. Although the title of the film translates into a crash, from the plot of the movie, although it is related to a crash, it is actually a crash, black and white, positive and negative. A strong collision of light and dark. This is a multi-line development story. If you tell the story clearly, it will be a good movie. It is not so easy to deal with the structure. Besides, it not only tells the story well, but also outputs it. The consistent value system, so it is still quite impressive. Chinese movies sometimes do not understand single-line stories, and sometimes they even engage in this multi-line development structure, such as "Fuchun Mountain Dwelling Map", where the relationship between the characters is unknown, the logical relationship is inexplicable, and the scene transitions are chaotic. Of course, then In the end, only a mess of pig food can be made. For movies, I have always disliked discussing issues of structure and artistry, because I am really not a movie critic, I am just a movie watcher, I just like to see human nature from the story of the movie and understand life for a while. As far as this movie is concerned, in fact, after watching it, only the word "salvation" hovered in my mind: redemption of myself through others, passive or active. There are several relationships in the film: a white prosecutor and his wife, a black director and his wife, a white racist old cop and a rookie cop, a black car thief and a gangster, a colored Arab shopkeeper and a Mexican locksmith, and There are Chinese dealers and wives who make soy sauce. These couples, connected in several crashes, staged a complicated mental battle on the streets of New York within 48 hours. The contrasting relationship here is very obvious. The first is the opposition of black and white, that is, the opposition of racial contradictions. It should be a white prosecutor and his wife with status who were inexplicably held on their heads by a black car thief on the road at night and robbed the car. They also felt that a black director with status and her wife were killed in the car returning from the celebration banquet. The white police stopped and inexplicably carried out physical and psychological insults. The front is the white being violated by the black, and the back is the black being violated by the white. This kind of violation all happened without any warning, and it just happened, but before it happened, either race actually held a stubborn prejudice against the other race: black people Think white people have been ignoring and beware of what they can do; and white people think black people are indeed the chaotic factor in this society and can't miss it. Hidden contradictions erupted and intensified like never before, everyone felt insecure, white wives didn't trust any people of color, including locksmiths and babysitters, and they were almost hysterical at home. Black wives don't trust white cops, even after the car rolls over and sees the white cop who assaulted him would rather die than get near him. People of color don't trust each other, Arabs suspect that Mexicans have robbed their storefronts for revenge, and so on. . . In such a situation, everyone has lost their sense of security, and their trust is like a ship that has sunk at sea. Then the second contrast relationship is the contrast between light and dark. The previous contrast has been created, and it is deeply ingrained in everyone, no matter what color of people, has planted such a bomb-like fruit of insecurity. But human nature is not absolute. In order to vent their personal anger, the middle-aged white police stopped the car of the black couple on the road for no reason. Not only did they sound violent, but they also took the opportunity to molest the black wife, which strongly trampled on the self-esteem of the black couple and made their relationship At the freezing point, there is the rookie policeman who entered the law enforcement industry with ideals, but saw the dark law enforcement that he did not want to see, and did not want to become such a senior and tried his best to save others. However, he accidentally killed the thief by mistake. Che gangsters dumped in the wilderness and destroyed evidence of murder scenes such as cars, so the profession of a righteous person may not necessarily be a just and legal thing. And the pair of black thieves, the little gangsters stopped the big gangsters when they did some excessive things. When they saw someone under the wheel being crushed to death, they didn't just run over him like some people in the country did. The man was sneaked to the emergency center; the gangster was infected and educated by witnessing the story of the black director being chased and released by the white police for the second time, and he personally released a group of Asian stowaways and bought them delicious food at his own expense , so thieves may not always do evil things. Such a description of a person is comprehensive, the evil in a good person makes people reflect, and the kindness in a bad person makes people think deeply. That's why it's a story of redemption. The wife of a white prosecutor who fell from the downstairs was ignored my best friend. It was a qualitative change from being fierce in the past to expressing sincerity later. After the black director and his wife were inexplicably insulted by the white police, the black wife finally risked her life to save her after overturning the car, but it was the one who molested her just yesterday. The white policeman, she seemed to be shaken. When she left, she looked back frequently. She should have realized more things at the moment of life and death. The black husband was insulted that time, and his wife was unable to resist when he was molested and made his wife despise. When he was stopped by the white police again, he broke out and completely lost his mind. He was angry and wanted to have a life-and-death confrontation with the white police. The white rookie police knew the source of his anger and the black and white race. Prejudice is unavoidable in the end, and finally comforted the black man to let him go home and stop deliberately causing trouble; when the Arab bought a gun and wanted to kill the Mexican locksmith he thought was responsible, he was rushed by the locksmith. The 5-year-old daughter, who thought she was wearing an invisible body armor, jumped up to block the bullet, but by accident, the bullet turned out to be a blank bullet! Tragedy for both families was averted, and the Arabs were redeemed by accident. There is also the above-mentioned thief who released the stowaways after being sorted out. Everyone on the above got some kind of redemption through an active or passive way and by chance. After the redemption, the stones in everyone's heart were removed, showing a relieved smile, and the movie finally began to release emotions with a sigh of relief. However, the only little policeman who finally carried the burden of manslaughtering others from redeeming others has started another life introduction, which is a dark factor. In this film, we can see that there are such two colors in life: positive and negative, white and underworld, sunshine and darkness, justice and evil, happiness and sadness, eternity and eternity, and so on. The world we live in is not a black and white world, but a chaotic world where all kinds of relationships and concepts are intertwined, and in an accidental moment, the good turns bad and the bad turns good. But we also know that after darkness, the sun will always illuminate the earth, and when the sun sets, darkness will cover the world regularly, but at that time, people will light up a lot of lights to illuminate this dark world, because there are The night with the lights on, also allows people to satisfy part of the sense of security, and in the dark night, there are still many dark things happening, but this is the true face of the world. Writing here, thinking of the reality, I always encounter the light and the invisible side in my work, either turn a blind eye to the darkness or light up the darkness, or it will be swallowed up, and I often feel the excitement and depression in life. , Although I hope the time can be long when I am excited and happy, but I tell myself in my heart that I need to be mentally prepared as I always have to fall back after the climax, so that it will not be too sad, and vice versa, so that I will not despair. . In this world, others are just an opportunity, and there may be only oneself who can redeem one's soul. April is dark clouds and the sky is dull and depressing, May is sunny and beautiful, and June is the plum rain with hot and rainy weather. What will happen in July and August? Anyway, let's wait and see, the world is changing too fast, be prepared mentally, and be constant in the changing circumstances, and adapt to the constant changes, no matter what the situation is, it will eventually pass.
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