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Alberto 2022-09-10 22:26:26
false ethnic fusion
The film is based on James Baldwin's posthumous manuscript. The narration in it is the content of the manuscript. Most of the pictures used in it are real video photos, so most of them are black and white photos, and some videos are even deliberately processed into black and white. Because it was...
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Allison 2022-09-10 13:49:58
some reflection
While watching a talk show yesterday, I saw an uncomfortable expression: "The reason for optimism is stupidity." Right now, I don't know if I'm an optimist or not, and I'm mostly a bystander when it comes to most social issues and news. After watching this film, I traced this question and got a...
Cathy Salvodon
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James Baldwin: All of the Western nations have been caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism. This means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority. "Vile as I am," states one of the characters in Dostoevsky's The Idiot, "I don't believe in the wagons that bring bread to humanity. For the wagons that bring bread to humanity, may coldly exclude a considerable part of humanity from enjoying what is brought."
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James Baldwin: I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters.
