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蛮喜欢这部片子的，讲故事的方式很有趣，对政治问题和意识形态冲突的探讨也很直白，但这也导致许多人对它颇有微词。

片子里有很多很多黑色幽默：比如说开场那位不停忘词的白人至上主义者、黑人白人的口音问题、黑人学白人口音歧视黑人/犹太人/墨西哥人/中国人（总之一切非白人的物种）、OJ辛普森…

后半段在表现主题上则会犀利的多，观众会接受到很多呐喊式的、口号式的观点的倾泻。高潮部分white power和black power的对立也在导演的平行蒙太奇里被直观的搬到了台前。

也幸好在screening前看了一半reading，这里才成为了我觉得最有意思的部分 — “This back-and-forth editing technique, called the cross cut (or parallel cut, switchback, or several other synonyms), which produced closeness out of distance, became a standard Griffith tool, fulfilling several primary functions.” — 而这里3K党们正在聚众观看的影片也正是Griffith的The Birth of A Nation。

最后导演选择cite newsreels来结束这部影片。突然想起了花样年华结尾，仿佛有异曲同工之妙。我那时候这样写: “By the end of the film, the director distances himself from the film camera by citing obsolete newsreels, telling the audience that no matter how small and personal the story might be, it does not escape from its time and place, just like the zooming in and out of the same camera. This is also why I feel compelled to study cinema in college - the personal and the collective are connected by the flow of the narrative and the movement of the camera. As long as we know how to dissect the seemingly innocent images, we can get in touch with the truths of life across times and scales.”

现实世界人们真切在面对的种族歧视、暴力是什么样的？Trump和David Duke站在白人立场上片面的发言与之相比又是如何充满了讽刺意味的？

在镜头的伸缩中，电影narrative的力量是如此这般强大。