The topic of racial discrimination seems to be a certain distance away from the Chinese, especially the Chinese living in China. At least we rarely feel the discrimination against us by foreigners, but this does not mean that we have never discriminated against other races. people. As long as you pay a little attention in your life, you can hear racially discriminatory words that people consciously or unconsciously or even jokingly. I have heard people say "niggers" when they mention black people, even my favorite host Li Jing would make similar mistakes. In a TV talk show, the host and guests talked about the ongoing World Cup. A guest said that she most admired the African team's mentality of enjoying football, whether they scored a goal or missed a goal, their faces were always happy and naughty. At this time, Li Jing smiled and interjected: They are so dark that they can't even see their facial features, how can you see their expressions? ——Perhaps she thinks she is humorous, but all I see is narrow and mean. It is hard to believe that such a dialogue will be broadcast openly on TV. This also shows that the Chinese people are not sensitive enough to racial discrimination. The awareness of resisting racial discrimination and respecting other ethnic groups needs to be improved.
I watched a movie a few days ago and defeated Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" to become the "Crash" of this year's Oscar for best film. Before watching it, I knew that the content of the film is roughly about the relationship between people of different races in a metropolis like LA, which is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural metropolis, but after watching it, I was shocked. Although there is a certain degree of concern, my understanding of racial discrimination is still limited to a single race (black) and a single method (violence), but the reality shown in the film is far beyond my imagination. The opening of the film is simple and straightforward: after the crash, an Asian woman complained loudly to the police that “Mexicans can’t drive”. Since then, a series of racial conflicts have been revealed one by one: the owner of the gun shop teased the old Persian who came to buy the gun. Find time to plan your jihadist plan"; two black men were aggrieved by the unfair treatment in the cafe and the strange look of the white people on the street, and then robbed a car; the white housewife who was robbed of the car worked at home. The face of the locksmith asked her husband to change the lock tomorrow morning, because the locksmith sent this time was a "gangster with a prison tattoo", he would immediately sell the key to his "Latin gang" and break into the home The white police officer stopped the car that was not at fault and forcibly searched the couple in the car because he was black; the Persian old man’s shop was smashed and the walls were covered with insults, and "They thought We are Arabs!"
The film is going on in such a tense atmosphere, which makes people unable to breathe. "Race discrimination" is no longer a problem between blacks and whites. This society has gathered so many people of different colors and races. They don’t understand, trust, and host each other. If there is friction, they will have no scruples about each other. abuse. I always feel that after these conflicts, large or small, raging anger will eventually be ignited, and there will eventually be tragic unacceptable incidents. Sure enough, when the Persian old man who had lost his only source of life griefly took out his pistol and shot at the innocent Mexican locksmith, but shot the little girl who rushed to protect his father, all my depressed emotions in the first half of the film followed. The locksmith, shouting in despair, broke out with his unhappy wife... However, the little girl was miraculously unscathed. How should this be explained? Putting aside the foreshadowing at the beginning of the film, I would rather believe that this is a fairy tale to preserve the beautiful and fragile "body cape" in the heart of the little girl. It is also the scriptwriter and director who stayed for us in this realistic and cruel film. A little warmth and sweetness underneath. When you finally breathed a sigh of relief, believing that there will be no more conflicts and killings in the second half of the film, and believing that the director will give us a hopeful ending, the real tragedy happened and people were caught off guard. The cute little black man who had no prejudice against whites and even was interested in white culture died under the gun of a white policeman who opposed racism and had helped blacks. This ending cannot be said to be a huge irony, but it makes People are very sorry.
Just after watching the movie that day, news came that the British police had foiled a terrorist attack conspiracy. After 9/11, the word terrorism appeared more and more frequently in our lives. The biggest feature that distinguishes the recent terrorist attacks from the 9/11 incident is that the terrorists did not come from the remote Middle East, and Middle Eastern extremists who traveled all the way to European and American countries to carry out terrorist operations. Most of them are now native European and American citizens, who are the Middle East. The second and even third generations of ethnic immigrants in Europe and America. What caused these young people who grew up in developed countries to be tempted by al-Qaeda to bombard themselves as human beings on the land where they grew up? I think in addition to the factors of dissatisfaction with the Middle East policies of European and American countries, the long-term racial discrimination is also an important reason. When you walk on the road, you can feel people’s distrustful eyes everywhere. When you have a dispute, others will insult you as the “son of a terrorist”. No matter how you observe the law and keep yourself clean, you cannot avoid becoming the police’s most concern in public. The point, and all this is just because of your Middle Eastern background and Middle Eastern face. I believe that this kind of pressure will indeed force people to collapse and recklessly make crazy revenge against society. In this way, not being understood or trusted leads to letting go, breaking the pot, and then causing the entire ethnic group to be discredited and misunderstood, and then this ethnic group is even more ununderstood and untrusted... How many times does such a vicious circle have to go through reincarnations? relief? !
Fortunately, the director gave us some hope at the end of the film. Whether it is the old Persian man who sat on the ground weakly after an attempted attack, but firmly said "She is an angel, my angel", the black director's wife is being humiliated by the white man who once humiliated her. The complex eyes of the policeman looking back after saving his life are still the white housewife who hugged her maid tightly and said "You are my best friend", and even the black habitual criminal who robbed the car was giving the Asian smugglers. The smile on the corner of his mouth after forty dollars made people feel a ray of light. The Chinese translation of this film as "crash" is also appropriate, because the film starts with a crash and leads the whole story. But I think the word crash has other meanings when used here: collision, collision, impact... and it just coincides with the film meaning of constant collisions between races.
When the Oscars were awarded at the beginning of this year, I sat in front of the TV and watched the whole live broadcast of the awards. When "Brokeback Mountain" lost to "Crash" in the Best Picture Award, I felt sorry like every Chinese. I also watched "Brokeback Mountain", which is a moving and good movie, but after watching this "Crash", I thought that if I were a judge, I would vote for this more realistic movie. The film, after all, can encourage more people to pay attention to this social phenomenon and contribute to the improvement of this phenomenon. Using movies to change the world-this is not an impossible task, as long as everyone who has watched the movie thinks and takes action actively. As the director of the film Paul Haggis said: "The purpose of creating and shooting this film is to explore topics related to the relationship between people. I don't intend to offend some people or cause disputes because of this. I just want to I express my views on this issue through this movie. The movie is such a wonderful tool that allows you to experience the journey of strangers. I hope that the audience will not just perceive after watching this movie. As far as the problem I pointed out, what is more important is to promote the people to share your love."
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