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Lost Children Archive 豆瓣
作者: Valeria Luiselli Knopf Publishing Group 2019 - 2
A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate.
But as the family drives farther west--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, unforgettable adventure--both in the harsh desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.
冰血暴 第四季 (2020) 豆瓣 Fantastika TMDB
Fargo Season 4 所属 : 冰血暴
7.4 (67 个评分) 导演: 诺亚·霍利 / 迪尔巴拉·沃尔什 演员: 克里斯·洛克 / 杰西·巴克利
本季由克里斯·洛克主演,杰克·休斯顿、本·韦肖、詹森·舒瓦兹曼、蒂莫西·奥利芬特、杰西·巴克利、萨尔瓦托雷·埃斯波西托、Andrew Bird、Jeremie Harris等也出演。主创Noah Hawley回归,故事聚焦敌对的黑人黑帮和意裔黑帮:
1950年代,堪萨斯有两大黑帮犯罪团伙,一个意大利裔,一个非裔,总是作对的双方在某时达成了难得的和平。为维持关系,帮派双方头领同意交换各自的小儿子。
洛克饰演非裔团伙的老大Loy Cannon,不得不将自己的儿子送到敌人手中,并抚养敌人的儿子。但随后,意大利黑手党的头领进医院做常规手术,却死掉了,于是一切大乱。
这一季主题被描述为“移民、同化和我们为了钱能干出来的事”,两个移民群体的交集和冲突:意大利来的意裔,为躲避吉姆克劳法案而逃出美国南方的非裔,作为两个黑帮团伙,为了各自的一线美国梦而斗争。
2021年6月1日 看过
不同角色對身份的理解好有意思。最噁心的角色就是那個聯邦法警,沒為國家留一滴血,卻滿嘴家國仁義教訓一個老兵,白美國的化身。Ethelrida簡直沒話講了…而且演員是紐奧良人 [我是無法阻擋的!吼...]。人在做,天在看,因果報應,為 Loy 的結局感到惋惜。
#Black #Criminal @NOLA @USA
旺达幻视 (2021) Eggplant.place TMDB 豆瓣
WandaVision Season 1 所属 : 旺达幻视
8.3 (735 个评分) 导演: 马特·沙克曼 演员: 伊丽莎白·奥尔森 / 保罗·贝坦尼
自从幻视死后,旺达用魔法控制了小镇“西景镇”,并创造了全新的幻视。在这个世界中,她跟幻视过着理想的郊区生活,但随着天剑局的介入,旺达的宁静再度被打破……
2021年5月29日 看过
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韩国佬 (2017) 豆瓣
Gook
8.0 (6 个评分) 导演: 全知泰 演员: 西蒙妮·贝克 / 全知泰
其它标题: Gook / 无色国度(港)
A dramedy about 2 Korean-American brothers who have to defend their family's women's shoes store while contemplating the future of their own personal dreams and the meaning of family during the first day of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
2021年5月10日 看过
就得了這兩個獎?喲!三星的還佔了45%?!真看不出來冲國民間隱藏了這麼多美國社會問題專家,格局大如屌,怪不得要復興呢。去你爹的。如果對歷史背景不是很了解,最好是看過紀錄片<LA 92>再來看會有更深的感觸。打一個“留美一代亞裔必看劇情片”的標籤吧。
#Korean #Racism @USA
冷血悍将 (2021) 豆瓣
Without Remorse
4.9 (20 个评分) 导演: 斯特法诺·索利马 演员: 迈克尔·B·乔丹 / 朱迪·特纳-史密斯
其它标题: Without Remorse / 无悔
本片由斯特法诺·索利马执导,泰勒·谢里丹担任编剧,根据汤姆·克兰西创作同名小说改编,讲述前特种兵约翰·克拉克(乔丹饰)女友被贩毒组织杀害,可就在他决定复仇时,华盛顿高管要求他完成解救高级军官的秘密任务。杰米·贝尔仍在就加盟本片进行最后谈判。
2021年5月9日 看过
最後提出的反恐建議目前看來很不怎麼樣。
現在看不下去戰爭和警匪片了。
#Black #War @USA
Between the World and Me 豆瓣
8.3 (13 个评分) 作者: Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau 2015 - 7
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
2021年5月4日 已读
[有聲書] 先聽完的這個書,然後看的 Them 。就像Samyang辣雞面加了辣,還翻了倍。
#Black #Racism @USA
他们 (2021) 豆瓣
Them
8.5 (13 个评分) 导演: 尼尔森·克拉格 / 丹尼尔·斯坦 演员: 黛博拉·艾里德 / 阿什利·托马斯
1953年,黑人家庭Emory一家从北卡罗来纳州搬去洛杉矶的一个全白人社区,看似理想安逸的地方却隐藏着现实与超自然的危险。
2021年5月2日 看过
看得昨天晚上楞沒敢去實驗室。不是說最生活化的情境最適合拍恐怖片嗎,什麼電梯啦 衛生間啦 電視機啦 壁櫥啦,可是如果是每天每時每刻每分每秒一舉一動都因為細胞裡某種氨基酸存在就像被詛咒了一樣,世世代代直到現在,都在懷疑自己、親人還有其他像自己一樣“被詛咒”的人,這樣的"生活場景"可真算是恐怖素材的頂配,這部劇也確實生動地拍出了這種窒息的壓迫。誰沒有過不幸,但是不是誰會都選擇與惡魔交易來填補自己心中的洞。
#Black #Criminal #Horror #Racism @USA
无依之地 (2020) Eggplant.place IMDb 豆瓣 TMDB
Nomadland
8.2 (1315 个评分) 导演: 赵婷 演员: 弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德 / 大卫·斯特雷泽恩
其它标题: Nomadland / 浪迹天地(港)
2008年金融危机下,美国内华达州昂皮尔小镇的重要经济支柱石膏厂倒闭,人去镇空,这里的邮政编码也被取消。丈夫去世后,几乎在在昂皮尔小镇度过了一生的弗恩(弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德饰)无力独撑生活。为了将生活成本压到最低,她将简陋的家当搬上了改装后的厢式货车,开始了一边打工、一边西行的公路生活。她在亚马逊流水线上、在游乐园的咖啡厅里、在国家森林公园做临时工。一路上,她和许多厢式货车寄居者相遇、相识,彼此帮助,并缔结了友谊。
White Fragility 豆瓣
作者: Robin DiAngelo Beacon Press 2018 - 6
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
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In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
2021年4月30日 已读
[有聲書] 加一星因為其實特別適合Hans閱讀。各種縫合怪都在一波又一波浪潮的洗刷下露出了面目,也體現出縫合手法的越來越精細。皇漢這種基礎型的怪物儘管張牙舞爪反倒因其渾然天成而顯得無暇,倒是要理解那些承認基諾cide卻反對反省、不承認privilege的這些變種就顯得分外的困難。雖然這本書對於這些群體理解自己的漏洞是個不錯的路徑,但是2021年了還在要求要以如此客氣的態度來對待之,不能不讓人感到惱怒。
#Racism @USA
Kindred 豆瓣
作者: Octavia Butler Beacon Press 2009 - 2
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
猎鹰与冬兵 (2021) Eggplant.place 豆瓣 TMDB
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Season 1 所属 : 猎鹰与冬兵
6.6 (269 个评分) 导演: 卡莉·斯考格兰德 演员: 安东尼·麦凯 / 塞巴斯蒂安·斯坦
灭霸被终结后,“美国队长”史蒂夫·罗杰斯卸任,将盾牌交给了“猎鹰”山姆·威尔逊,相信他能够继承美国队长的精神。此后,“猎鹰”山姆·威尔逊和“冬兵”巴基·巴恩斯联合参与了一场全球性冒险行动 ……
2021年4月25日 看过
把Black大聲說出來。就像The Wire S3 裡提出Hamsterdam的Colvin對警察職責的深刻理解,Sam對這個社會 政府 個體的關係還有自己應該怎麼做去實現改變都說透了。感覺自己算是一個非暴力、拒絕機體改造的碎旗者。Do you hear people sing.…還是那句話,一個 Louisianian (aka WhoDat一輩子) 是絕對沒有可能把自己命名為 Falcon 的…絕對沒有…
#Black @USA
灰猎犬号 (2020) 豆瓣 TMDB
Greyhound
7.7 (340 个评分) 导演: 亚伦·施耐德 演员: 汤姆·汉克斯 / 斯蒂芬·格拉汉姆
其它标题: Greyhound / 怒海战舰(台)
影片讲述二战初期,由37支盟军船只组成的护航舰队在欧内斯特·克劳斯(汤姆·汉克斯饰)舰长率领的一艘美国驱逐舰指挥下,穿越险恶的北大西洋,同时还要与德国U型潜艇狼群的周旋。
2021年4月19日 看过
嘖 現在這樣醜化、妖魔化“敵軍”的方法有點看不下去了。潛艇戲份就出來的那種鬼叫不是讓人戰栗,是有點讓人覺得劣質的噁心,就像個頑劣幼童在惡作劇。[此片於路州首府Baton Rouge的Kidd海軍博物館停靠的Kidd號驅逐艦上拍攝]
#War @Louisiana @USA
亚裔美国人 (2020) 豆瓣 TMDB
Asian Americans Season 1 所属 : 亚裔美国人
9.4 (19 个评分) 演员: 兰道尔·朴
5月份是美国的亚太裔传统月。5月11开始东部时间晚8点,PBS将隆重播出讲述亚裔移民历史的五集系列记录片“Asian Americans"——《亚裔美国人》,听亚裔移民讲述他们自己的故事。从1843年5月第一位来自日本的移民踏上美国土地,亚裔美国人凭着勇气和坚韧,走过了移民制度演变,种族政治,国际关系动荡和文化的创新。贡献与抗争形影相随,美国之所以成为美国,离不开亚裔移民的非凡影响力。
《开天辟地》,《对美国忠诚的问题》,《美国模范族裔》,《崛起的一代》,《突破》——五个小时的五集纪录片重现150年漫长复杂的历史。
2021年4月15日 看过
對小白如我來講,這已經是個很好的引子了,對中西南亞裔涵蓋的不足,就要課後自己多留心了。觀看的時候除了盡力控制激動的情緒也一直在琢磨自己對身份的認識,發現對任何寫在證件/paper上的“法定身份”都極其鄙視,但對此之外的各種“精X”極其熱衷。因為那些才是我自己在天賜機緣的撮合下主動尋求、體驗、學習、在和現實或歷史中的人互動共情一點點建立的,不需要去討好任何人間權力的愚蠢法條。
#Asian #Documentary #History #Racism @USA
Our Time Is Now 豆瓣
作者: Stacey Abrams Henry Holt & Company 2020 - 6
Beloved national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams offers an empowering blueprint to ending voter suppression, reclaiming identity, and reshaping progressive politics.
Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity -- who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics, citizens are harmed in overt, subtle, and even personal ways. Stacey Abrams experienced the effects firsthand, running one of the most unconventional races in modern politics as the Democratic nominee for the governorship in Georgia and the first black woman major party nominee in American history. Abrams did not become governor, but she will not concede. And the reason she won’t is because democracy failed voters. However, fixing suppression isn’t enough unless we understand how it works and how identity plays a pivotal role. Suppression and identity altered the 2016 presidential election -- and will do the same in 2020. But progress can win, and here Abrams lays out how.
In Our Time Is Now, Abrams draws on extensive national research from her voter rights organization, Fair Fight Action, and her 2020 Census effort, Fair Count, as well as moving and personal anecdotes from her own life. Abrams weaves together the experiences of those who have fought for the vote and the right to be seen throughout our nation’s history, linking them with how law and policy deny real political power. So much hangs in the balance for the 2020 election, and the stakes could not be higher. Our Time Is Now will galvanize those seeking change. It will be a critical book by the expert on fair voting and access that will show us where we fall short, who America is now, and most importantly, empower us to become the democracy we’re meant to be.
2021年4月8日 已读
[有聲書] 關於選民壓制的花招可以說是耳熟能詳了,但是更多細節的呈現,更讓人深切感受到被壓制者在權力面前的脆弱。另外作者關於自己對內政與外交其實沒有界限這一點的覺悟真是振奮人心 (雖然國際路線/視野其實一直是美國/美洲黑人運動的重要傳統)。
#Politics @USA
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Beacon Press 2014 - 9
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.”

Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
米纳里 (2020) 豆瓣 IMDb TMDB
Minari
7.1 (294 个评分) 导演: 李·以萨克·郑 演员: 史蒂文·元 / 韩艺璃
其它标题: Minari / 农情家园(港)
故事发生在20世纪80年代的美国,美籍韩裔男子雅各布(史蒂文·元 Steven Yeun 饰)带着妻子莫妮卡(韩艺璃 饰)和两个孩子大卫(Alan S. Kim 饰)、安妮(Noel Cho 饰)一起从熟悉的西海岸搬到了偏僻而又陌生的阿肯色州。虽然对于丈夫的这一决定,莫妮卡的心中十分的反对,但她拗不过雅各布的坚决和顽固,只得被迫夫唱妇随。
蛮荒之地的生活既不舒适也不有趣,在最初的新鲜感过去之后,大卫和安妮很快就开始怀念起过去的生活了。之后,孩子们的外婆也来到了他们的身边,给这个家庭带来了一丝热闹的气息。雅各布没有发现的是,当他将越来越多的时间和精力投入到开发农场这件事情上时,他和妻子之间的距离就越来越远。
2021年3月28日 看过
……導演是在我家裝過竊聽器嗎…有的地方有點生硬、出戲,但是憑那些熟悉的對話,加一星。
但是不太明白把那些神叨病態的白人基督元素加進去作為對立面是為什麼,而且最後驕傲的亞裔還是從了。讓我很想再扣一分。
#AsianAmerican #Family #Immigrant @USA
Illuminatives 豆瓣
Supaman 类型: 说唱
发布日期 2019年6月28日 出版发行: Illuminative Music
As a member of the “Apsaalooke Nation”, Supaman makes his home on the Crow reservation in Montana. “Supaman” Is Christian Takes Gun Parrish, a Native American dancer and innovative hip hop artist who has dedicated his life to empowering and spreading a message of hope and faith through hip hop music.
火线 第三季 (2004) 豆瓣
The Wire Season 3 所属 : 火线
9.6 (155 个评分) 导演: 艾德·比安奇 / 史蒂夫·希尔 演员: 多米尼克·韦斯特 / 约翰·道曼
第三季的焦点重回到活跃于街头的Barksdale团伙,同时也将视角扩展到政治领域。此外,本季当中引入Hamsterdam这一新支线剧情,以探讨在部分人烟稀少的街区对非法毒品交易及卖淫的「事实性」合法化会有怎么样的潜在积极作用。这种做法在阿姆斯特丹和其他欧洲城市取得了积极成果,减少了市内的街头犯罪。这些都是对早先情节的延续。
2021年3月18日 看过 終於有一個做對的事情的警察了。
#Criminal @USA