Spike Lee's "Black Consciousness" and "Black History"

Santino 2022-03-23 09:01:39

In the expression of "black consciousness", Spike Lee is the best of all directors. The film's satire of extreme white supremacist racism in the Ku Klux Klan is brilliantly done, exemplified by these two clips (David Duke's "baptism" of new key party members and black victims in black college students). In the cross-editing of personal narration at the rally), the director firstly has a clear political inclination in the language of the scenes showing the characters of the two parties (for example, the first editing of the two content is the narration of the black side; in the character scheduling, the black side emphasizes the closeness, while the white side emphasizes order; in terms of spatial expression, the black side uses shallow focus, and the white side uses deep focus; the above methods will not only deepen the viewer’s closeness identification, but also express the director’s attitude), however, can use The brutality experienced by black people directly satirizes the hypocrisy of extreme racism of white supremacy. The passage in which Ron goes to rescue Patrice is a typical "One Minute Rescue", and the editing method of "One Minute Rescue" has other meanings here, because let this method become the Griffith of the system, the typical performance of this method "The Birth of a Nation" is an important manifestation of white racism and black discrimination in history and film history.

Of course, Spike Lee's treatment of blacks and whites is not so biased. He looked at this issue from an objective point of view, otherwise he would not set the male protagonist as a black undercover police officer in a white police station, and the execution of the task was completed by the black Ron and the white Ron.

The racial issue of blacks and whites is not a historical issue, the reality is also constantly happening. Using a zoom lens to connect Patrice/Ron with the Ku Klux Klan who burned the cross in space shows that the conflict cannot be resolved in a short time. It confirms the recent tragedy that has intensified racial rivalry in Charlottetown.

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Extended Reading
  • Ima 2022-04-23 07:01:40

    Essentially not a movie but a novel ("Pulp Fiction"?) The speeches in a few acts are too exciting to be comical.

  • Wellington 2022-03-15 09:01:03

    On the contrary, Flip's Jewish identity made me feel more favorable about the movie. It is no longer just a black movie, but also includes all "them" who do not belong to "us". This kind of crisis can be related to Everyone is relevant. What's puzzling is that I still don't know where the second degree of irony lies. The revenge pleasure of an eye for an eye is obviously too low-level, and it is too simple and rude to think about it rigorously. In contrast, I love the three phone scenes between Ron and 3K leader David Duke more. No matter how sarcastic the language is, or how their forces have changed, in terms of camera selection, tilt, head-up, and track are all the same. are equal.

BlacKkKlansman quotes

  • Patrice Dumas: Are you down for the liberation of black people?

  • Sergeant Trapp: I've got a friend, he keeps up with these groups. He says they're moving away from the old violent racist styles. That's what Duke is peddling now, it's become mainstream.

    Ron Stallworth: Duke?

    Sergeant Trapp: David Duke, current Grand Wizard of The Klan, but, he's always in a three piece suit. He's never seen in a hood or a robe in public. And he now goes by National Director. So, he's clearly got his sights on higher office.

    Ron Stallworth: Politics? How so?

    Sergeant Trapp: I think it's another way to sell hate. Think about it: Affirmative Action, Immigration, Crime, Tax Reform. He says no one wants to be called a bigot anymore. Because, Archie Bunker made that too un-cool. So, the idea is under all these issues, everyday Americans can accept it, support it, until eventually, one day, you get somebody in the White House that embodies it.

    Ron Stallworth: Huh, sorry. Come on. America would never elect somebody like David Duke, President of the United States of America.

    Sergeant Trapp: Coming from a black man, that's pretty naive. Why don't you wake up?