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Today brings you a high-scoring American drama film "Blue and Black" Black and Blue.
At first, when I saw the name, I thought it was a philosophical adaptation like "The Red and the Black", but when there was a conflict between the black heroine and the white policeman at the beginning, I knew that I had been deceived, and even the literal translation should be translated as "Black and Blue".
Black represents a group of poor, disorderly, and black people full of criminal factors.
Blue represents the police, the order, the white community that seems to uphold justice.
This suddenly shows the core of the film, and it is a drama film that reflects the racial and class conflicts in the United States.
This kind of film is usually seriously unsatisfactory in China, who makes our country so great, different nationalities and different cultures can be well coordinated, and the essence of Confucian culture can always integrate foreign ideas and degenerate into a mainstream culture that is more suitable for the group.
What the heck? discrimination? If you have the kung fu to think about this thing, is it not that the welfare given by the state is not good enough?
Okay, then again, let's move on to this latest movie by Naomi Harris (Pirates of the Caribbean – Poseidon) and Frank Grillo (Captain America – Crossbones).
<h1>How terrible is the ethnic conflict</h1>
As a black woman who came out of the slum and successfully joined the army and retired from the army, she was given the opportunity to return to her hometown police station to work and became a formal trainee policeman.
But after many years away from home, she did not expect that her hometown would become like this.
In the economic environment, the gap between the rich and the poor has further widened, and the poor people can only live in collective apartments, have no money to go to school and have no money to enjoy the welfare benefits of the government, and can only sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire of evil.
The town's police station and anti-narcotics officers are complicit, not only looking down on poor black families head-on, but even secretly colluding with gangsters to do some smuggling.
In the conversation between the heroine and her partner, it is clear that the town represents the attitude of the orderly, powerful police collective.
"All the people who live in this collective apartment are bad people"
"Even if they were unlucky before, they don't deserve sympathy now"
"The police will not pay attention to anything that happens around here, unless there is an accident in this area."
Yes, the police in remote towns in the United States are so powerful that they have the right to arrest anyone who does not obey the law and even shoot them first.
Remember that joke?
In order to prevent the gangsters from continuing to control the hostages, the American police gave priority to solving the hostages and then solving the gangsters.
The hostility of the black community to the police is also divided into two camps, one is the underworld, on the one hand, they look down on whites and policemen, on the other hand, they are secretly cooperative, and the other is the poor people, who have no armed forces, can only endure wanton exploitation on both sides, and are powerless to resist.
In an unexpected operation, the heroine witnessed the infighting scene between the police and the gangsters, and even inadvertently took a video, and could only run around after being discovered.
In the process of fleeing, she gradually found herself alone, all the police officers on her body were accomplices, and the gangsters also listened to the police's explanations and began to chase her, and the only thing that could prove her innocence was the video evidence stored on her body.
With the cooperation of her childhood friends, the heroine successfully let the gang boss witness the video and understand the truth that the police have been hiding, but at the same time, the police camp is completely determined to eliminate the heroine and the gang together.
After a chaotic gun battle, only the heroine and the anti-drug police who were at the scene survived, and the cracked video has been sent to the computer of the police high-level, who immediately stopped the action and arrested the anti-drug police.
In the end, the story does not give a specific explanation, and the heroine continues her police career, but secretly, the conflict from two classes and races continues.
The whole film seems to put the IQ on the ground to rub, the plot is very stiff, deliberately combining class antagonism and racial antagonism, obviously did not play a 1+1>2 effect, but people are confused about where to focus.
Secondly, the emotional line between the heroine and her childhood companion is very useless, there is no flashback clip to analyze, the whole film only has lines, and the rest are all made up for the brain, which seems pale and weak.
On the other hand, the advantage of the film is that the director presents what he wants to say to the audience very plainly and directly, that is, class conflict and racial discrimination. The soundtrack and shots in the film work well together, creating an atmosphere that attracts people with the same experience, including symbolic graffiti and BGM with black appearances, and the acting skills of the actors during the confrontation between the two sides are also outstanding, worthy of being able to show their faces in blockbusters.
<h1>Other than being right, what else does this movie have</h1>
The author is not an American, so I can't intuitively feel the profound meaning contained in the movie, but the consistent urine nature of Hollywood movies is the black authorities, and the better the blacker the blacker, the deeper the black, there are countless people who receive similar treatment to pay for it.
So we look at this movie from a different perspective, on a social level.
Among them, the heroine faced a very serious matter after coming to the police station, that is, the problem of taking sides.
As one of the few black policemen, the same black police predecessor emphasized the problem of taking sides with her more than once during a tour with her partner, you are a policeman first, and then a black person.
If you look at it in a normal way of thinking, this is a statement that it is very common to stick to the post.
But the film also proves that the meaning of this sentence should be that as a policeman, you must take the class interests of the local police as the first element, not any class that existed before you.
Simple and direct, pointing out the theme, laying the groundwork for the position and encounter of the heroine afterwards.
The heroine herself is soft-hearted, and misses her hometown friends, she successfully chooses her own justice, leaves the class in which she is, and here there is a threat to her own life from her companions, which has become the element that prompts him to act, and it turns out that the heroine is alone, the original class wants to kill her, and the class she wants to help does not agree with her and even wants to kill her.
Very real question, when you encounter this kind of problem, how will you choose.
It seems that every adult who fully integrates into the big family of society must go through this stage, which is inevitable.
The same is true of the history of mankind, the cause of any war has always been that different interest classes crush each other, the winner can naturally expound history, and the loser can only disappear completely.
In life, at any time we must also make choices, and here I will not tell you what the right choice is, because any choice you make must be in your own interests.
This is the commonality of society and the commonality of human beings.
Finally, recommending the American drama film "Blue and Black" may bring a little different feeling to your life.
Thank you for reading