Why do white Americans have such a bad opinion of the murder in the small town?

20/kloc-in August, 2007, Mandela's famous saying once again became a hot topic on Twitter in the United States: "No one is born to hate others because of color, background or race."

2017 On August 12, a white racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA turned violent, killing at least 3 people and injuring 34 others. The Associated Press called it the biggest gathering of white racists in the past decade. Trump held a press conference as president until the evening, and his speech neither directly condemned the white supremacy nor characterized the incident as a terrorist act. Instead, it criticized both sides, not only in cold blood, but also in a businessman's hypocrisy. Ironically, David Duke, the former leader of the Klan who has always supported Trump, also bombarded Trump on Twitter. "I suggest you look in the mirror and recall that a white American chose you as president."

We don't know if Trump looked in the mirror, but the latest movie can really be regarded as a mirror of America. Set in the 1950s, the film tells the story that after a murder in a white community, all the residents' anger turned to a black family who just moved in, but this is not the case. The film is called Murder in the Mysterious City.

The screenwriter of this film is American genius director Cohen Brothers, and his works such as Simple Blood, No Country for Old Men and true grit have won the highest honor on the international stage. The director of this film is George Clooney, one of the most attractive male stars in Hollywood. After the transformation of the director, he became famous in the film industry with his works such as Good Night and Good Luck. Matt Damon, the star of this film, should have an audience that the whole world doesn't know about him because of the Bourne ultimatum series. Julianne Moore, a senior charming actress, has always been a guarantee of high-quality movies.

Such a luxurious creative lineup, coupled with the fact that the film has been shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 20 17 Venice Film Festival, is an excellent certification in film quality and sales. However, when the film was released in North America, it met with an inexplicable cold reception.

If Venice's evaluation of Murder in a Lost Town is "insufficient surprises", then North America is full of complaints from the audience's low freshness of rotten tomatoes to the low scores of professional film critics. This movie is not worth seeing at all!

Singapore's "New Newspaper" commented that "the plot in the film seems to be related to the current political situation in the United States, but it actually reflects an outdated problem." Washington's "The Outsider" magazine commented: "This movie is an offensive hodgepodge, and many elements should not be mixed together." Comments on the IndieWire website said that "the movie Murder in the Lost Town is really interesting, but when trying to give a new perspective to the old problem, it began to go wrong."

However, is the film itself really what the critics say?

"Ten years after the end of World War II, the new middle class in the United States began to move to the suburbs. For many people, the American dream of owning real estate has become a reality for the first time. You can get a good job, live in a good community, get married and start a family, but only if you are white. Interestingly, it is easy to find the ugliness hidden in this perfect family life. " This is the original intention of director George Clooney. When this passage is eaten together with the story introduction of Murder in a Lost Town, we will find that George Clooney is not shooting a long-standing murder story in a small town in the United States in the 1950s, but shooting a lingering problem in the United States-racial discrimination.

Since Trump took office, racial discrimination in the United States has risen again. As we all know, Trump was highly supported by white racist groups including the Klan during the presidential election. In particular, Trump claimed to build a wall on the US-Mexico border and drive away illegal immigrants, which was welcomed by the white people at the bottom of the United States.

Familiar formula, unchanging taste. In fact, racial discrimination and politicians who think they are above the law have been everywhere in the United States for a long time. They just choose their own favorable views and don't really respect some political ideas. Playing the "populist card" is really good, but the consequences are terrible. After Trump was elected, a group of white supremacy people gathered in Washington, D.C., held high anti-Semitic Nazi symbols and carried out activities in a big way, which led to the aforementioned 8. 12 racial violence in Virginia, USA.

Some analysts said that the Virginia incident further shows that the white racist movement is making a comeback under the banner of "alternative right wing". The Americans present are also worried that "the racial problem in the United States is still very serious. Today's violence reflects the division of American society. If it is not handled properly, the division will be further aggravated. "

In fact, there are many factors contributing to the rise of white supremacy in American society in recent years. Apart from the "9 1 1" incident, the financial crisis and Obama becoming the first African-American president in the United States, the longer-term reasons are: the increase of minority population caused by immigration, the aging of white population and the decline of birth rate. It is estimated that around 2043, the proportion of white Americans will be less than 50%. In the face of demographic changes, white Americans are unprepared, coupled with shrinking manufacturing and other factors, white people put anxiety and anger on ethnic minorities and immigrants, and Trump was successfully elected as the new president for this reason.

Also in 20 17, a young black man was beaten by a white policeman on the streets of California for no reason, which caused anger among netizens on social media. In the past few decades, there have been many black deaths caused by violent law enforcement by white police in the United States, which have triggered large-scale protests and social riots, but the police involved are often exempt from prosecution. Trevor Noah, the black host of the American Daily Show, angrily criticized the American police for serious racial discrimination, saying that he was stopped 8 times in driving 10, and denounced the existence of "national racism" in the United States!

All kinds of facts are telling us that the so-called equality and freedom advocated by the United States is just an illusory bubble. The current situation is that if the Trump administration's economic policies are slow to achieve results and social policies cannot be adjusted in time, with the widening gap between the rich and the poor in American society, racial relations in the United States will further deteriorate in the future.

As the protagonist of The Lost Town, Matt Damon once publicly stated: "Although the film tells the story of the 1950s, it is actually a dialogue with the times we live in now." How does such a hard-faced movie win the favor of Native Americans? To tell the truth, thanks to the censorship system in the United States, movies can't be banned, otherwise "Murder in the Lost City" is estimated to have no chance to be released.

When Trump was elected, Hollywood could almost be described as weeping. Although more than a year has passed, the positive diss voice has gradually decreased, but this kind of work not only maintains the sense of responsibility of literary and art workers, but also does not violate their own conscience, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Speaking of which, I can't help feeling a little excited. June 65438+1October 12, I can go to the cinema to see this film that deeply exposes the hypocritical life of the American middle class.