The latest news is surprising. A 16-year-old black girl in the United States insisted that she was white, and went on a show to insult black people to attract public anger, and said she looked like a Kardashian.
"I know I'm white, and I can feel it in my veins."
On the show, although white hosts welcome such "traffic figures", they do not agree with her views. The host made it clear to Trege: If you think you are white, and I happen to be white, then I will say, we do not welcome you. This remark won the lead applause from the girl Trege's mother, and Trege could only laugh awkwardly.
In any case, Trege's remarks sparked outrage on foreign networks, with netizens almost overwhelmingly accusing her of being "racist". Some voices believe that the black girl has psychological problems. The issue of black and white has always plagued American society. Even the superstar Michael Jackson made a fuss about his skin color. Recently, the serious tendency of "political correctness" in Hollywood works has spawned a large number of films with blacks as the core. Even in some big-budget films in China, black people have begun to play important roles. Some media pointed out that although the black group has a new image and more exposure in video works, some films that consume "color" are actually a secret exploitation of the commercial value of black people.
How to interpret the behavior of the black girl? What is a black movie? Perhaps the following video gives a fairly satisfactory answer.
The Hate U Give,
It should be the most powerful dark horse movie in North America recently. The film has a high praise rate of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes;
Received a high score of "A+" in the CinemaScore audience survey; also received a high score of 82 on Metacritic.
It has been less than three weeks since the film was released, but the number of theaters released has soared from only 36 in the first week to 2,375 this week. The cumulative box office has reached 10.64 million US dollars, and it is very likely to become a blockbuster movie. .
"The Hate You Give" is based on the novel of the same name, which has been called "a masterpiece that every modern American should read".
The film focuses on the turbulent experience of a black high school girl. The main story and Inciting Incident are familiar to American audiences, and to fans familiar with elements of black films. The girl in the film, Starr (Amandla Steinberg), witnesses her teenage, black boy Khalil being "manslaughtered" by a white police officer. Subsequently, a series of "butterfly effects" triggered by the incident turned Starr's peaceful life upside down.
The film "The Hate You Give" chose a relatively neutral and very playful way to narrate. In the first act of the film, Starr's father seriously taught the three children in the family how to deal with the search of the white police: put your hands away, obey the instructions and arrangements, and don't argue with the white police. A series of "house rules" made Starr fear white police since he was a child.
On the other hand, in order to get a better education and break the cycle of generations of black lower classes, Starr's parents insisted on sending her to a higher-quality, predominantly white-student college for education. Immediately, the film seemed to quickly get rid of the "bitter and hatred", the usual viewing expectations of black movies, and entered the category of cheerful campus movies.
To create conflict between black and white, to tear apart the plot, there are so many points to mention. What "The Hate You Give" needs to be done is to simplify the complex and find the story line that is easiest to empathize with. The naive and inferior Starr's campus growth experience is the narrative backbone that best fits the first-person perspective. At the beginning of the film, she was thrown into the life circle of white people. Her best friend and boyfriend were both white middle-class. Even her black neighbors made fun of her since she was a child. She had long forgotten the way of making friends with black people.
At the party, Khalil, a black boy who was "childhood sweetheart", met with no guesses and kissed. Seeing that the paradigm of campus youth films became more and more obvious, he suddenly took a sharp turn and brought the film into a broader theme space.
Khalil drove Starr home and was searched by the white police on the way. Khali was indignant, and Starr respected his father's "teaching" closely. The police were on high alert and mistakenly thought Khali was about to take out a weapon and chose to kill him without warning.
Starr, who was sitting in the passenger seat, witnessed the whole process, witnessing the death of his beloved boy. The story begins to accelerate from this, and multiple plot conflicts follow. Starr is at risk of being isolated at school, her white girlfriends and boyfriends are worrying; Starr is at risk of causing a crisis for her family, and the gang in the neighborhood wants her to never mention Khali's "drugs for them" and the community's black lawyers, Khali's The family wanted her to speak up and even accept interviews with the media; Starr suddenly fell into a siege, and the choice of friendship, love, and affection tormented her tender heart.
It is actually very easy to advance the narrative through these conflicts, and a large amount of social text naturally brings abundant emotional flow. But it is precisely because of this that "The Hate You Give" is prone to fall into the trap of excessive sensationalism, which leads to the film expressing the producer's strong subjective wishes. Fortunately, George Tillman Jr. overcame this highly provocative impulse and turned to a more neutral attitude, with multiple side narratives providing multiple perspectives on the event itself. The best part of "The Hate You Give" is that it always sticks to Starr at the center, and through what she sees, her inner transformation, her struggles to tell the incident of "white police killing black child" is extremely complex background reasons.
Starr's growth on and off campus made "The Hate You Give" a variant of a school youth film with black racial elements. The title of the film, The Hate U Give, is all about who the "U" refers to. Who, filled the hatred between blacks and whites. There's a line in the film that they call "thug life": The hatred you instill in your baby will destroy everyone.
Through the actions of all parties, the film hopes to show the impact of hatred, as well as where hatred comes from and how it spreads.
The film does not blindly blame the white police, but through the mouth of Starr's uncle, a black policeman, the white policeman's psychological state and code of conduct when conducting searches on streets with a high crime rate. Not only Starr's white girlfriends thought the policeman was pitiful, but even Starr's black uncle felt excusable. But when Starr asked his uncle how the police would react if Khali was replaced by a white man driving a Mercedes Benz and the search was in a white, middle-class neighborhood. Uncle Starr replied helplessly, he would not shoot directly, he would give the other party time to react. It can be seen that the stereotype of white police against black people is the root cause of this tragedy.
Starr hopes to change this stereotype. After those violent demonstrations, she found that not only needs to speak up, but she needs to stand up. Change also needs self-reflection from within the black community. Starr's transition from being under pressure, hoping to escape to taking the initiative to stand up, is a dual theme closure of school youth film-style growth and epiphany moments in black films. Starr found that in order to change the prejudice of white people against black people, it is necessary for black people to exercise self-restraint and self-discipline, to eliminate social cancers, to allow more black people to receive education, to get rid of drug traps, and to break the cycle of black people's "thug life". change.
In the film, those passionate marches are always accompanied by endless violence. This kind of "voice" can't get any effective response at all, bringing about changes in the relationship between blacks and whites. Therefore, whether it is white or black, it is a victim of this cultural convention and thinking mode. The hatred that has been passed down from generation to generation is not only between blacks and whites, but also between blacks and blacks, given by "you" together.
"The Hate You Give" cuts into the story with a very low attitude. Through the inner monologue of a high school girl, the arc of the role, and the detailed analysis of the reasons for the separation between black and white, it is enough to shake everyone's stereotypes about this society in the past. and traditional cognition. I very much hope that Starr and his white boyfriend in the film will get back together after experiencing jealousy, jealousy, and inferiority. The boy said sweetly: "I see you clearly (through your skin color) ".
Hatred and prejudice deepen the exclusion of the two colors, while ignoring the tolerance and love that are held together in the human heart. But when we can see each other through the color of skin, maybe the girl's "hysterical talk" and the host's "false talk" mentioned at the beginning of the article will disappear.
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