丨This article was first published in the Pippi movie
Pippi Movies / A great movie recommendation every day
Speaking of the city of Detroit, I believe most people will think more of the NBA team - the Detroit Pistons.
But audiences familiar with the team should also know one more thing, and that is the infamous Oppen Hill Palace fight.
At that time, because the fans in the audience threw beer on the player Artest lying on the technical stage, Artest was out of control, directly walked into the audience and beat the fan, and the other team members saw the situation and directly followed to participate in the fight.
This incident suddenly caused the credibility of the NBA to suffer a great loss, the impact is quite bad, and it is still shocking when watching the video.
However, compared to the Detroit riots a few decades ago, such a thing can be said to be not worth mentioning.
In the sixties, the city had a famous black riot, and in order to suppress the black rebellion, the white police also did a terrible thing, director Bigelow more realistically restored the history of this event, filming the work "Detroit", once the film was launched, it was well received.
Detroit 丨 2017
detroit
Director: Catherine Bigelow
Starring: John Boyega / Will Poulter / Algi Smith / Jacob Ratimer / Jason Mitchell / Hannah Murray / Jack Leno / Caitlin Delver
Before talking about this film, Pigo would like to introduce the film's director, Bigelow.
As the ex-wife of world-class director James Cameron, her directing skills are not inferior to her ex-husband.
Fans and friends who are familiar with her work must know about the two famous movies "Bomb Disposal Unit" and "The Hunt for Bin Laden".
In particular, "Bomb Disposal Unit", in 2010, beat the ex-husband's "Avatar" and Quentin's "Shameless Bastard", winning the 82nd Academy Award for Best Picture in one fell swoop, and also conveniently pocketing the Best Director Award.
In recent years, director Bigelow has been focusing on the theme of racial discrimination and calling for equal rights, and today's recommended "Detroit" is one of the most representative works.
Director / Writer: Catherine Bigelow
Starring: John Boyega / Will Poulter / Algi Smith / Jacob Ratimer / Jason Mitchell / Hannah Murray / Jack Leno / Caitlin Dever / Ben O'Toul
In the early hours of July 23, 1967, at an unlicensed bar on the corner of Twelfth and Clement Streets in Detroit, the black community was celebrating and laughing, but was raided and arrested by white police.
Because operating without a license was illegal at the time, the police decided to remove the bar.
However, in that era, the contradiction of racial discrimination became more and more acute, and the black people faced social injustice, in order to vent their unhappiness, frequent riots have caused a lot of economic losses, and even casualties.
Faced with such a move, the white policemen caused resentment among the black people and directly led to more serious riots, and in the face of such a situation, the government had to send the National Army and the Federal Army to quell it.
The protagonist, Larry, a black man, is a member of a black choir who was about to sing on stage that night to get a chance to be signed, only to be told that there was a riot outside and to flee quickly.
The lost Ali runs down the street with one of his friends, Fred, and finds a nearby Hotel in Algiers.
Unexpectedly, this actually changed the fate of his life.
At that time, the white policemen were going around catching snipers, and the blacks did not understand what was happening outside, and although the policemen kept shouting not to stand at the window, they still stood by the window to watch the liveliness.
Over there, Larry and his friends were talking in the hotel when a black brother, Carl, took out a commanding flare gun and mimicked how white police officers violently enforced the law against blacks.
The moment the flare gun fired, Klaus, a white policeman patrolling nearby, mistakenly thought there was a sniper.
This extremely racist policeman, who had just faced charges for manslaughtering blacks during the day, still carried out his mission with a gun at night, and at this time, he decided to use his own special method to find the sniper at a special time.
He broke into the hotel with other policemen and military personnel and arrested the black men, who were also asked to lean against the wall for cross-examination.
Carl, who used a flare gun, was killed by Klaus in a panic because of excessive fear.
Before it was over, Klaus put a knife next to Carl in order to shirk the mistake of killing, falsely claiming that Carl wanted to snatch his gun and shot him in legitimate defense.
At this point, however, things are just beginning.
In order to interrogate the so-called sniper hiding place, they not only spoke roughly, but also moved their hands unequivocally.
Even in the face of their own white compatriots, they did not have the slightest restraint.
Klaus and his colleagues called the girls into the house, saying they suspected they were sex workers, and, under loud rebukes, ripped off one of the girls' clothes.
It can be said that detroit at this time has been destroyed in dignity, and the city has fallen into cold.
After threatening and intimidating these poor people, they still did not track down the sniper, so they wanted to find a scapegoat, but the big black brother who had been locked up in the house was secretly released by one of the kind policemen.
We can only find another way.
Klaus stopped one of his seemingly dazed colleagues and asked him to ask a black man in a white shirt according to his previous confession routine, that is, to take him into a room, pretend to be harsh, and then shoot a shot so that outsiders would be shot if they did not admit that they were snipers.
But I didn't expect that this policeman was really stupid, thinking that Klaus really shot and killed the person who had been forced to confess before, and without saying a word, shot and killed the black brother in the white shirt.
When he found out, Klaus realized that today was a big disaster.
In order not to hold the police accountable, he called several people outside the house into the house, suggesting that the bodies in their house did not exist and that nothing had happened tonight.
Larry's friend Fred, because he did not want to give false testimony for the policeman who killed the man, was also shot and killed, killing three black people at once.
Throughout the process, a black security officer who assisted the military, Dis, observed all this, knowing that the police were wrong and illegal, but because of their status, they did not dare to speak out.
Despite this, the police confessed to the police that they had shot black people, and Klaus and his colleagues were suddenly involved, and they were charged.
In court, the lawyer defending the three white police officers aggressively questioned the clients, finding loopholes in their testimony and directly leaving the innocent parties speechless.
Even more infuriatingly, the three policemen were eventually acquitted and acquitted of murder.
At the end of the movie, the male protagonist Larry is hungry and decides to go out and seek a job.
His previous group had the opportunity to sign to a record label, but after that night, Larry could not sing in front of the white people, and he could never forget the scene of his friend dying in front of him that night, so he decided to quit the choir and worked only in a church choir from then on.
The film ends like this, basically a true restoration of the Detroit police murder case at that time.
I believe that many friends will also feel resentful and powerless after watching it, those who shout civilized and elegant law enforcement agencies, but abuse violence to hurt the innocent, racial discrimination has been infinitely magnified in this riot, and people with colored glasses have lost their humanity.
But despite this, there are several rare and tender scenes in the film, such as the white policeman who secretly let go of one of the interrogators, the white man who saw the black brother injured on the way and rushed to the hospital, and the angry boss who knew that Klaus shot and killed innocent black people.
In fact, returning to the real United States, at the beginning of the 60s, the United States was in a period of turbulent and turbulent civil rights movement, although on the one hand the US government always emphasized freedom and equality, but on the other hand, because the long-oppressed groups of color always questioned the hypocrisy and injustice of the government.
Blacks repeatedly affirmed true political equality, and the civil rights movement reached its climax, and the great black leader Martin Luther King Jr. was the representative of the emergence at that time.
But detroit is still a city where there is still a relatively serious racial discrimination, and 1967 is undoubtedly an outbreak of contradictions, although more than fifty years have passed, but in the United States, racial discrimination still exists.
The director deliberately chose to release it fifty years after the incident, and the purpose is also to warn mankind and call for equal rights.
Because in recent years, the contradictions of racial discrimination have intensified, especially during the Obama administration, but they have not improved.
In fact, as far as the current situation in the United States is concerned, the economically affluent areas are still dominated by whites, and blacks are more obviously discriminated against by mainstream society because they are caught in the vicious circle of poverty for generations, resulting in an increase in crime rates.
But in essence, some white groups are also extremely dissatisfied with the rise in the number of blacks and the favoritism of certain behaviors, so in recent years, there have been vicious incidents of white men shooting and killing many people in black churches, and violent news such as these has emerged endlessly.
So the road to equality is still long, maybe when we really realize that all people are equal and have a heart of great love, the darkness before the dawn will pass.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Fat Fat
© Original 丨 Article Copyright: Ppdianying
Please do not reprint in any form without authorization