泥土之界

首先，我想说，不知道为何这部电影评分这么低。

一个为了祖国而流血牺牲的人，没有被敌人的炮火杀死，却最终死在了自己国家的人手里，究其原因，是因为他是个黑人，并且跟白人女人上床了，而那个白人女人还是德国人——美国人的敌人，但是对于那些自视甚高的白人杂种来说并不重要，重要的是朗索尔是个黑人。

我一直在想，为何白人如此的自视甚高呢？

最近的《绿皮书》也探讨了这一问题，明明自己是个不入流的混蛋，不务正业的渣滓，却高高在上，而为国效力，才华横溢的黑人却要受到歧视呢。

种族对于人类来说，我认为并不重要，重要的是每一个人能为人类做出什么贡献。

可笑的白人终有一天会为此付出沉重的代价，至少是那些带有种族歧视的白人。

而我还想说的就是，影片安排杰米杀死自己的父亲，完成大义灭亲也是合情合理，我想导演不光是给影片中的人物一个心理安慰，同时也给了观众一个愤怒释放的出口，至少在我观影时，这是我的观影期待，我渴望着复仇降临。

杰米就像是黑白之间的一座桥梁，联通着黑白两界，像一个使者形象存在与影片中，现实中当然也有这样一群维护平等的人，而寻求平等当然要付出代价，这个代价也许远比电影中的要多且残酷。

每一个民族，每一个人种，以及不同的肤色的人都会在其内部分出优劣，这种优劣是一种个体之间相比的优劣，这种优劣是普遍存在的，绝不单是从民族，种族，肤色来区分，划分的。

我们只能针对每一个个体来评判其好坏，世界就是因为多彩而变得精彩，而遗憾的是，直到现在，如此现代化的社会，种族问题也依然没有完全得到解决，这种观念根深蒂固的存在于那些自以为是的人的血液里。

那些丑陋的人就好像漫画《海贼王》里的天龙人一样恶心，其实他们才是最没有资格存在于这个世界上的人。

当然，说的再多也不能改变事实，甚至不能改变某些人的观念，或不能打动任何人，但这不重要，重要的是这种向往平等的斗争会不断持续下去。

不要说什么政治正确，电影展示给我们的就是真实的历史和存在于现实的一种状态，不需要借助任何政治正确之类的外衣。

女主角是个31岁的老处女，当然我们由此就明白了她的老公不会是左右逢源的情场高手，没有对异性的魅力，他们的结合也只是一种凑合，反正年龄合适，差不多就扯个证结婚吧，这里真的悲哀，夫妻之间没有很烈的爱意，所以后来搬到农场生活让女主角的人生彻底灰暗，不论是孩子得了百日咳，还是她临盆在即遇到被丈夫背叛的薇拉发疯一样的逼迫，她的丈夫永远不在她身边，的确是这样吧，结了婚之后的生活更是痛苦，面对曾经倾慕的小叔子突然的战场回归，她只能尴尬的擦了擦脸上的土，她的一切都被打上泥土的烙印，一边无声反抗一边强迫自己习惯。

mudbound,与其说是泥土之界，不如说是泥土之禁锢，农场上满是泥土，黑人被奴役人身安全得不到任何保证，为了有自由之身，拼着断腿永不治愈的风险也要下地干农活，白人也在为生计发愁，到处都是尸体，老鼠/鸟类/家禽，无时无刻不在昭示着这片土地给女主角带来的无力感，她左右不了什么东西，唯一能保留的只有家里的一架钢琴，偶尔的生疏弹奏让她感觉自己身上的mud被稍稍的剥离，她和mud还没有合二为一

前面铺垫好长，都是一些细碎但是又似乎没什么大不了的阴暗事，正因此所有矛盾最后汇聚时除了令人愤怒，更是格外的无力，因为观众应该理解自己如果在这样的环境中恐怕也并无多少选择，简直是无可逃避的命运。

我感觉电影的高潮并不在父亲Pappy和三k党如何残害Ronsel，而是大儿子Henry可以那样自然并毫无负担的要求杰克逊一家帮忙安放Pappy的棺材，Henry正代表了社会中的平庸之恶，他们不是Pappy这样直接动手的坏人，好像也了接受解放奴隶的现实，也并无过分举动，所有行为只是沿袭传统和惯例，但正是这样的人把进步消解，是三k党徒们可以横冲直撞的土壤，是最让人无法应对的恶，像雾霾一样，不致命但日复一日且无孔不入。

二战后的美国当然不是只有种族主义矛盾，还有小儿子杰米这样带着战争创伤寻找出路的年轻人，更重要是他与家人对自由和平等已经有了截然不同的理解，分裂在所难免，这里的平等包括如何对待女性。

电影的另一条主要支线是剧中女性的痛苦，她们身处不同的阶层，但不管是受过大学教育的劳拉，还是贫苦农民家的维拉，或者能干的杰克逊太太，都不能过上和男性平等的生活，在这样的处境中女性之间想要互相帮扶也无能为力。

剧中唯一在家庭生活中得到善待的是杰克逊太太，导演肯定想到，要是再没有杰克逊家那点人间的温情，这部剧将太过黑色了。

但在现实中这些亮色很可能是没有的，就像电影最后Ronsel说的，难道我一个黑人最后就要接受被残害却无处申冤然后精神崩溃靠各种药片了此残生的结局吗？

导演让他去到了德国和他的白人爱人团聚了，但是现实里有无数黑人因为美国的种族问题得不到正义并了此残生。

非常好，耐下心来看吧。

文学性颇强的作品，人性的参差、细微的冲突，在徐缓的叙事下慢慢抖落。

探讨的东西很丰富，却没有用夸张的、强调的方式去讲述，留白多，有几场戏却极具张力。

种族和平权主题，是戳了什么人的菊花吗？

为什么一碰到这样的题材就呲牙？

超级英雄片如此泛滥倒也没见你们有过什么意见。

Job 14King James Version (KJV)14Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.3And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.7For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.15Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.18And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.22But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.King James Version (KJV)Public Domainfrom: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+14&version=KJV

《泥土之界》观影细节分享点击下方链接即可查看原文https://read.douban.com/reader/column/7902591/chapter/46196832/试读部分章节：《泥土之界》是一部被低估了的佳片，它讲述的故事看似简单，其实不然，它包含的主题太丰富了：种族歧视，民权运动，乱伦，弑父，二战，爱。

故事的结构如房子的钢筋水泥般稳固，细节充满温情，又一步步导向最终的主题，人物性格刻画很饱满，细节与结构的筋骨浑然一体。

哈姆雷特是一个悲剧人物：杀掉叔父为父报仇人物性格的刻画在本片中是一大亮点，每个人的性格都十分鲜明，他们的形象也很立体，当影片结束的时候，每个人都发生了巨大的改变。

影片的一大特色是，使用旁白来交代前后因果。

影片中一共有5个人有资格讲旁白，分别是：杰米、劳拉、荣泽尔、弗洛伦斯、哈普，这个旁白的先后顺序，也基本暗示了人物在片中的分量。

杰米，显然是本片的重量级主角，他出现得最早，他介绍的人不是别人，正是自己的哥哥亨利。

亨利的性格是如何体现的呢？

“我们会完成的，我们必须完成。

”这句话可以揭示亨利的性格，他是一个志在必得的行动派。

他不浪漫，他强势，自信，也爱自己的家人。

劳拉最美的笑容是为了杰米的注视亨利爱劳拉，舞会上，他看着劳拉和弟弟杰米之间火花四射，他只是摸了摸劳拉留在座位上的披肩。

后面看着妻子劳拉拥抱着弟弟杰米，他心里明白，但什么都没说。

劳拉小产，他也只是沉默地抚摸了妻子的身体。

最后，他实在受不了弟弟杰米整天颓废、不似人样地活着时，他让杰米离开这里，也是选择自己先离开几天，把选择余地留给了两个他最爱的人。

他一共开着车去了黑人牧师哈普家三次。

第一次是叫哈普去帮忙布置新家，他把哈普当成是呼之则来的仆人；第二次是哈普摔伤了腿，他来租驴子给哈普，为的是让哈普按时完成农活，同时自己少付一半的工钱，他是精明的农场主；第三次是专程来教训哈普的儿子荣泽尔，让他为自己坚持走前门的“离谱”想法道歉，他是种族隔离制度的维护者。

杰米自己的性格是怎么体现的呢？

还记得车站接人那场戏吗？

杰米提到自己像“哈姆雷特”，劳拉说他像一个调皮鬼，这里暗示了杰米是一个活泼且调皮的大男孩，但最终却背负了弑父、乱伦以及背叛朋友的罪孽。

所以说，从影片一开始，就已经暗示了杰米未来的路。

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Topical epithets like“African-American”,“female”,“lesbian” can immediately boost filmmaker Dee Rees as a shoo-in of any awards consideration to validate the industry’s all-inclusivity dedication, but when MUDBOUND, her stirring second feature, misses both BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR nominations in the Oscar race, we can impute it to its bad luck, but never to the movie’s artistry, as both Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig overshadow her with the same politically correct cards (race/gender) in the directorial category, and labelled as a Netflix movie, the film may have reached more audience but is also predisposed to be brushed aside by the old guards among the Academy members on the strength of safeguarding silver-screen’s sacrosanct purity, albeit changing of the form is inexorable.Located in Mississippi during the 1940s, MUDBOUND traces relations between two families, the McAllans, two brothers Henry (Clarke) and Jamie (Hedlund), with Henry’s wife Laura (Mulligan), their two young daughters and the brothers’ father Pappy (Banks), who own a farmand the Jacksons, headed by Hap (Morgan), their tenant farmer, with wife Florence (J. Blige) and a brood of four. Both Jamie and Ronsel (Mitchell), Jackson’s eldest son are recruited in the army to fight Nazis, the former is a bomber pilot and the latter on the ground, commands a tank in the Continent. It is their experiences in the war that brings them closer, after both are lucky enough to return home alive and kicking but find themselves beset by PTSD and wanting an aim in their post-war existence, their camaraderie will be tested in a nefarious lynch mob commotion in the climax, but salvation is well-earned with Dee Rees’ conscientious endeavor, not least in her sterling aptitude of honing up an arresting narrative: horror and anguish are produced with frenetic editing in the under-lit condition, but never overstay their welcome, tendresse and pathos are dished out in apposite quotient without ever overstating their connotations.Told intermittently through 6 main characters’ voice-overs, this tack refreshingly fleshes out each player to constitute a fantastic ensemble, every adult in the McAllans, represents one particular mindset towards the entrenched racism, from Pappy's Ku Klux Klan-infusedabomination, Banks, who can chill you to the bone with just a glance, is one’s worst nightmare in living embodiment, which should be taken as a sincere compliment; to Henry’s matter-of-fact treatment and congenital superiority, being considerably less unbearable makes it a more insidious barrier to overtake; then there is Laura’s moderate kindness and Jamie’s genuine friendship, which regrettably are not out of sheer truism or sense of justice, but on the condition of reciprocation (Florence tends to Laura's daughters when they are sick, and Jamie’s life is saved by a black fellow pilot), this faintly retrograde narrow-mindedness has become this reviewer’s pet peeve whenever racism is tackled in a fictitious creation.Among its dramatis personae, R&B diva Mary J. Blige is the sole recipient of an Oscar nomination, her portrayal of Florence is palpably nuanced, composedly resilient and utterly lifelike (her proficiency of dispatching a rooster is very under-praised),not to mention with a puissant theme song MIGHT RIVER to render addition empathy during the closing credits (a double Oscar nominee this year). Carey Mulligan, on the other hand, is unfairly overlooked with her pitch-perfect incarnation of a neglected wife who is mired in a hopeless situation (her husband doesn’t even ask her opinion about their life-changing relocation), not just by debasing her appearance, Laura is "mud-bound” in the most literal way (ablutions conduces to her unsatisfied desire and liberation), like many women, she seizes her marriage as an escape of her spinsterhood, and has to live with the consequence to the boiling point, that incestuous impulse, it is not an easily legible role but Mulligan glows with assurance and true grit. On the masculine front,Jason Mitchell is the unequivocal one who rallies our sympathy and investment, which he runs way with in steadfast strides. Rob Morgan, also rounds out with a memorable impression as the undeterred paterfamilias, sticking to his guns within sagacious boundaries, as forGarrett Hedlund, who is tasked with the most thrilling retaliation in the form of patricide,is much as good as you want him to be,which leavesJason Clarke takes the short end of the stick with a less showier part.It will be a great remiss to not mention that DP Rachel Morrisonhas become the first ever female Oscar nominee in that branch owing to her finesse of designing its period-saturated, umber-hued landscape, and grabbing 4 tickets to the Kodak theater, odds are not exactly favorable to MUDBOUND, but at the very least it officially establishes Dee Rees as an unstoppable force to be reckoned with, and spearheads a belatedly surge of (black) female filmmakers on the horizon. referential points: Steve McQueen’s 12 YEARS A SLAVE (2013, 8.8/10); Ava DuVernay's SELMA (2014, 8.1/10).

当我想起农场时，我会想到泥土。

我的梦是棕色的。

这是1940年代种族歧视严重的密西西比州农场，农场主和黑人佃农两家相安无事，当两家儿子从战场归来后家乡却没有温暖可寻，两人间的友情成了悲剧的源头。

故事在散文诗般的镜头和多人的旁白下推进，杰米从登场就注定此生将背负弑父乱伦背叛的罪孽，只是最后3K党的暴行让人猝不及防。

演员是全片最出色的部分。

当战争创伤遇上种族歧视的政治正确网飞电影。

当白人和黑人从二战战场返回家乡密西西比之后，白人的家人是农场主而黑人的家人则是受雇的奴隶。

前面几乎一半的时间都在利用每个人的内心独白来细腻地铺陈，直到最后几乎所有的线都交织在一起引爆了最终的结局。

演员保持了网飞剧的一贯水准，故事才是影片的唯一核心。

影片中随处可见的文学气息缓慢地表达出了每个人物充沛的情感，阴沉的天气棕色的泥土使得在这里的每个人都低沉又忧郁。

当下的种族主义在美国横行，这是源于多年来政治正确的矫枉过正。

结尾3K党标志性的服装出现得令人猝不及防，随之而来的是白左们对黑人处以私刑的触目惊心。

无论是鄙视黑人还是保护黑人，还是在强调他们是黑人。

I cannot deny that the movie "Mudbound" is a sentimental and thought-provoking period drama. But at the same time, I have to point out that the buildup, or the first act is really overlong, lasting for more than an hour. The central figures in the film are Jamie and Ronsel, who served in the US military and are against racism. But their story only starts after the one hour mark, at which point the audience get bored and tired. The film would be much improved if the buildup were shortened.