Now that I think about it, watching movies is actually a process of expanding the boundaries of self-knowledge in entertainment. That's why I love watching movies so much, life is so short, and I have to use it to sleep and work. In the limited space and time, I rely on books and as much "listening and listening" as possible to expand the boundaries of cognition. , especially this type of film based on real events, because it is real and far away, because of distance and space, it is especially able to expand self-cognition, the film "Green Book" is not only based on real events, but also I love it very much One of the movie genres - road movies. So, in general, my heart is warm after reading it, and I feel that human beings should be kinder. Shouldn't a good movie have this effect?
Of course, the issue of racial discrimination is really difficult to explain clearly, because it is too subtle and trivial. It has a long history. So, I see people saying it's a white man's savior movie, so gritted, so outraged, so cynical, like the director did a bad thing, and I'm thinking, can't it be that bad? If one thing can recall the conscience and kindness of human beings, and can play a part in throwing out prejudice, some small flaws can be ignored, and the original intention is good, isn’t it good?
Anyway, during the process of watching this movie, I was actually a little nervous in my heart. I especially don’t want to see cruel things happen, because I feel that as a black man, he has lived a very painful life, because of low self-esteem and because of conceit, It is a person who is contradictory and sensitive with complex emotions of flesh and blood. Just like he vented in the film: I'm not white enough, not black enough, not enough man, so what am I? However, one of the characteristics of road movies is that you don't know what will happen on the road. So, there are bound to be some bumps along the way, as long as it's not too unbearable, in fact, I think the director has a really good grasp of this point. He knows what will happen, but he won't let the movie watch Those who feel that it is over or not enough, the degree of grasping is particularly good.
Let's talk about this controversial propaganda poster. The big whites are in the front, and the blacks are the little ones. Some people come out and say that the savior of white people, including Oscar blacks, is also the position of the best supporting role. It is understandable that you have to be picky. This is related to the fact that American movies always love to create and advocate individual heroism. They like to create heroes, which is related to the complex of their nation. However, if all the films made by white Americans are completely converted from the perspective of black people, it also seems to be a contradiction of human self-recognition. Because people of their own race know their own race best, and if the film was made by black people, it must be completely different. Since it was a film made by white people, he used their cognition to try to respond to racial issues. Naturally, he has their narrow-mindedness and a bit of prejudice, but he cannot deny the correctness of the original intention.
To be honest, this movie was originally set up in terms of character and cultural level for fear of being criticized by people of different races, so it made a clever reversal. In most people's impressions, or the problems and phenomena left over from the long-term development of human history, people with lighter skin seem to have a higher level of cultural education than people with darker skin. I'm not saying this is correct, but it is indeed a legacy of widespread prejudice and chronic injustice. Because people with yellow or dark skin still lack the opportunity to be cultured since ancient times, or it is more difficult for people with fairer skin. This point can be illustrated by the Chinese nation. Although the admission scores of ethnic minorities are much lower than our Han nationality, they are not as easy to get the opportunity to accept culture as those in our Han nationality area. So, put into the human history of different races, it is more complicated and it feels more unfair.
In this film, the white man is a downright rude man, while the black man is an elegant and decent cultural man with strong self-discipline. Such an arrangement makes it easier to balance the narrative of the film's content. But what you can still feel strongly is that although this white man has no culture, is particularly rude, and has a simple mind and developed limbs, the social status that his skin color can give him obviously makes his life easier, so he is more confident. . He accepts the limitations of his cognition and can learn to change quickly. This is also the reason why he was able to infect black people. Black people are not confident, so even though his self-perception boundaries are greater than those of rude white people, he is difficult to work around.
In the beginning, white people even threw away the water glasses that black people drank, because why? Because he is biased, and that bias is the narrowness of his cognitive boundaries. However, in the process of contacting with the black musician and professor, he gradually expanded his cognitive boundaries, quickly recognized and accepted, and you have to admit that confident people are more able to admit their mistakes.
Therefore, sometimes the prejudice problem of race is narrowed down to the problem of personal cognitive boundaries. I have lived at such a low level since I was a child. My cognition of a human group that is not of the same race as me is often a crony related to my own living standard. Prejudice, is it all my fault? !
So, to reduce conflict, prejudice and stereotypes, the first thing we can do ourselves is to expand our personal cognitive boundaries.
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