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Zelda 2022-02-16 08:03:04

This film is too painful, the protagonist's "no" from the bottom of his heart at the end is too painful. Although it is a very cliché segregation-themed film, a main line of the male and female protagonist and a side line of supporting actors and actresses, everyone wants to cross the barriers of skin color to pursue love freely, and finally succumb to the politics of skin color, but it does not hinder this film. Bright realism, depicting cruel reality is really eye-catching. One of the protagonists flirts with the car parked on the side of the road, and then the black male protagonist is arrested by the white police-this plot seems nothing new, but it is very shocking. The story is too real, the contradictions are very concentrated, and very realistic, and then the director expresses it with skillful audiovisual language. In addition to the theme of interracial love, it also involves issues of patriarchy, religion, and social pornography. The male protagonist went to the drug cave to find his elder brother. The photography was excellent: the wide-angle lens with cool blue tone and the backlit drug addict made people feel dizzy and suffocated. At the end of the dream scene is also very delicate, it is a subtle psychology of the male protagonist. The space for the story to occur is also limited to specific (two) blocks like "As It Should Be", which can not only integrate the story, but also see the big from the small. The only shortcoming is that I feel that the film wants to explore a lot of social issues, and the director wants to express a lot of views. Therefore, various social issues are displayed unevenly and slightly messy.

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  • Tiana 2022-04-24 07:01:18

    The farce that is difficult to end in peace, and the huge high-speed dialogue is just trying to present some cruel facts in the way of discussion. The inferiority of human beings always shows a high degree of consistency regardless of skin color. The tragedy is that no real love seems to happen here.

  • Martina 2022-04-21 09:03:02

    In Spike Lee's films, the racial point of view is always simple and straightforward, and the extremely stylized imagery is his forte - the film is beautiful.

Jungle Fever quotes

  • Gator Purify: I swear before God... and four more white people! This is the last time!

  • Flipper Purify: There's something you should know. I'm having an affair.

    Cyrus: H-bomb! H-bomb!

    Flipper Purify: It gets worse. She's white.

    Cyrus: Nuclear holocaust!