In 1964, in Mississippi, the KKK kidnapped A station wagon carrying three civil rights activists, including two whites and one black. Since then, they have lost contact. The FBI sent two agents (Alan Ward and Rupert Anderson) to investigate the case. Ward is a young, principled, and idealistic person who pays attention to procedures. Rupert is a sophisticated, sophisticated and flexible realist who doesn't care about procedures. The investigation was very difficult, the locals did not tell the truth to them, and the two often clash. The local Ku Klux Klan responded by attacking blacks and burning churches. Rupert accidentally met the wife of the deputy sheriff. He thought she might be an insider, and the truth slowly emerged...
The conflict between whites and blacks is the core contradiction of the film, the violence between the KKK and the blacks, and The indifference of local whites towards blacks may be caused by cultural influence from an early age. Blacks and whites are two cultures that do not interfere with each other. Blacks also live in their own areas and do not have too many rights requirements. An invisible social estrangement has been formed. White people desire this kind of stability. They have good intentions and want to promote social stability and development. But in the 1960s when the affirmative movement was raging, this kind of stability began to be broken, and various incidents of whites attacking blacks occurred, causing social instability. Black people must be escorted by police cars when they enter white schools. From the perspective of the Mississippi, it is those in the north who pretend to be elites to interfere with the culture of the south and cause social unrest. Mississippi is burning, and the appearance of the Ku Klux Klan is also clear. The kindness in the human nature of the locals was also awakened for a year. Like the policeman’s wife, her heart was extremely painful, and telling the truth became the key to breaking through this case. Social stability cannot be exchanged by relying on one race to eliminate another race.
The film deeply shows the KKK’s cruelty to blacks and exposes the dark contradictions in society. Rupert, played by Gene Hackman, and Ward, played by William Dafoe, performed brilliantly. A realist and an idealist complement each other. They represent two types of people: one with idealistic temperament and the other with realism, but they are all equal in value. In that era, a consensus on values was needed to promote the transformation of society towards equality and freedom. It also has a very high reference significance for modern society.
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