"I believe the EU has a new understanding of today's neoliberalism. In fact, however, many people in Europe are experiencing poverty and despair. ”
This is the explanation given by director Ken Rocky after the best film of the Cannes Film Festival, perhaps the director's consistent film style and personal pursuit, journalists, film critics have commented that they have moved significantly closer to political tendencies. So, many people began to be skeptical of the British welfare system, and even more attacked the darkness of British politics, wondering if this is the result that the director wants to see? But it is undeniable that it does reflect the director's dissatisfaction with a certain system.
Yes, a film with humanism will more or less be implicit in politics, but the main thing should not be to return to people and society itself? At this point, "I Am Black" gives us a glimpse of a more frightening side than institutional rigidity.
Teachers at Marxist academies often like to ask students the question: "Is capitalism synonymous with wealth, democracy, and civilization?" The answer is no. In the development of the global economy over the past hundred years, it is not "Keynesianism" or "Thatcherism" that is wrong, but the society affected by policies and the people who are closely related to society. Just like in "I Am Black", what led to Blake's death was not the indifferent and stubborn government, but the pathological development of the times and the "old man" who believed in the pathology. The former deprives Blake of his self-esteem, while the latter, should he be introspective?
When there is still despair in the world, we must tell those who are indifferent that there is another extreme. --Ken Lodge
"Hello Mr. Black, my name is Amanda"
"The first question, can you walk more than fifty meters independently?"
"Can you raise your hand to the pocket of your coat?"
"Can you raise your hands to the height of your hat?"
A few minutes before the opening of the film, there is no picture only dialogue, just like the Q&A between a man and Siri, calm and calm, without a trace of emotional color, such an illusion is not surprising, after all, with the advancement of science and technology, the function of artificial intelligence is more and more powerful, simple Q&A has been considered low-level, perhaps one day will really achieve human-machine love like the movie "Her".
These are all thanks to people's firm goals of "higher, faster, stronger" and "efficient and convenient", we have fast food, express delivery, express cars and other conveniences, the world is shouting "fast fast fast", the state apparatus will not be an exception. Everything is as regular as a mathematical formula and is constantly improving, except forgetting to improve all humans into robots.
The job center in the film is like this programmed society, and Blake is the wrong code, a formula that cannot be solved, and the person who operates the machine thinks that since it does not conform to the law, why bother to solve the problem, just give up. Therefore, there will be so many long dragons receiving food, facing high-rise buildings, standing in front of clean streets, hungry, not knowing whether anyone among those long dragons with yellow faces and thin muscles is wondering if they are lucky or unlucky? Fortunately, I was born in a developed country, and the unfortunate country that buried its head in development abandoned itself.
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Among these abandoned people, there are also people who are good at thinking, that is, the protagonist Blake, in this society that confuses right and wrong, his criterion of judgment is not rules, but human nature, which is the code missing from the program, and it is also the key to the gradual cold of the fast-paced society. When Katie, a single mother, is faced with a difficult situation, Blake pours out her help, and the food supply station sympathizes with pity; when Blake encounters difficulties, the social worker takes the initiative to help, and neighbors and even strangers are willing to help, all of which machines can't do. However, these enthusiastic people are also unable to melt this already cold world, and in another way, they are also treated as unconscious robots by society.
So, at the end of the film, Blake's suicide note reads: "I, a citizen, am no more noble than anyone, nor inferior to anyone." "The Black here represents the many poor people in Britain who have been abandoned by society, they are all the subjects of society, and when one day, the rapid development of society abandons a number of subjects that cannot be improved, I wonder what this society will become?
I have a story, it's the story of an ordinary person, and I hope the story will resonate with everyone. --Ken Lodge
The film's director, Ken Rocky, always likes to angelize the low-level characters in the film, and Blake is no exception, but human nature is not perfect, and so is Blake. It is often said that habits become natural, and the welfare system in The United Kingdom for many years has made people naturally acceptable, and even some children have been raised by welfare from childhood to adulthood, and this state of affairs has changed slightly to the detriment of their own rights and interests.
Blake is like the sixth master in "Old Cannon", kind and upright but also living in the past. He despised his neighbors who sold factory sneakers, and thought that the young people of this era were not doing their jobs; handwriting resumes and trying to move on computers with a mouse; even the oath protests were old graffiti, apparently unambiguous, a way of deflating but unwise. He constantly tossed and turned in the job center, pinning all his hopes on the welfare system, blindly believing that the job center deprived him of self-esteem. But as a new generation of China in the United Kingdom, it is not dependent on the welfare system, and knows how to judge the situation and actively start a business, although his way is not desirable, but no one will trample on his dignity. As the old Chinese saying goes, it is not unreasonable to do it yourself and eat enough.
At the end of the film, Blake's appeal is naturally a failure, and the environment that has been formed cannot be changed because of one person. Moreover, there are so many flesh-and-blood blue-collar and white-collar workers in Britain, which shows that it is not just a social problem, no matter what era you are in, if you stagnate, you will naturally fall behind. Moreover, Blake never thought of stepping out of the cage of the system, he just tried to resist in the inherent mistakes, and did not try to let himself have a way to live, another possibility.
In the film, Blake's last words are: "I can't imagine that my fate is in the hands of these people." Even when appealing, what Black suspected was still the enforcer of the system, not the system itself. So, it may have been the stunted society that destroyed his self-esteem, but what caused his death was his heart that could not jump out of the cage!
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