马尔科姆 X

有一首歌，在全世界范围内有很多版本，这首歌被无数国家的人民广为传唱。究其原因只有一点，它点破了一个谎言，唤醒了太多的人对于自己的认识。并引导他们开始了反抗的进程。这首歌就是《国际歌》。《国际歌》里面有一句“从来就没有什么救世主，也不靠神仙皇帝，要创造人类的幸福，全靠我们自己”。这是一句很直白的话语，它一阵见血的戳破了宗教对于人类统治几百年上千年的谎言。最终引导人们用自己的力量解放自己。因此，这句话受到太多人的追捧。

一个人从愚昧无知到获取知识成为一个文明个体，这个过程显然是非常复杂的，然而当他最终从无知走向文明，却依旧没有改变自己的初衷的时候，毫无疑问呢，这个人是伟大的。而这个时候，保持初心的这个人最终带领更多的人觉醒，那么这个人的功绩，伟大一词便也难以形容。

今天给大家推荐的这部电影，说的就是一个伟大的人，他做了一些伟大的事情，这些伟大的事情最终没有成功，但是更多的人们却记住了他，知道了他在做什么，为了什么。本片名叫《黑潮》，看到这个词语，很多人会想到一个名字，那就是马丁路德金，本片中的主人公做的是与马丁路德金同一件事情，不过他采取的方式不同。他真正的将美国黑人组织了起来，并准备发动斗争。

《黑潮》是一部讲述美国民众中的黑人们觉醒的故事，本片主人公马尔科姆X是一个历史上存在于美国的黑人民族运动领袖。他跟马丁路德金是同一个时代的杰出的民运代言人。在美国民间一度有“南有马丁路德金，北有马尔科姆X”的传闻。然而他的结局很遗憾，跟马丁路德金一样，他最终被暗杀，然而比马丁路德金更甚的是，暗杀他的则是他曾经信奉的宗教首领。

《黑潮》这部电影说的就是马尔科姆的生平。他死后的几十年内，他的事迹逐渐的被人们所遗忘，对于后世来说，很多人只记得马丁路德金却忘记了这个跟马丁路德金同时代的民运领袖。原因也很简单，马丁路德金崇尚非暴力不抵抗，而马尔科姆X崇尚的则是暴力革命。孰优孰劣一眼便清楚，尤其是经历了几十年美国普世价值观的洗礼之后，全世界对于这个人物的生平就更加地淡忘了。然而铭记的人永远在铭记，他们知道马尔科姆X是一个什么人，同样知道他的初心。

这部电影很长，有200多分钟，然而对于这样一位民族领袖来说，这显然不足以完全的展现他的生平。影片中有所取舍，最终呈现给我们的则是一个丰满的形象。通过这部影片，很多人大概知道了马尔科姆阐述的思想的核心以及如何对于这种思想进行保卫，并最终能做什么。而他的生平做的最重要的一件事情并不是与自己所崇尚的伊斯兰教决裂，而是用自己的人格魅力，将原本一盘散沙的黑人们团结动员了起来，这是最重要的事情。

为什么说这样的事情最重要，我们可以看看哪些举国动员团结的国家或者是团体最终取得的成就，我们国家自不必说，二战时候的苏联，二战时候的盟军，以及越战时候的越南民众们，他们都有一个显著的特点，在面对外来力量的时候，自身做好了团结，自己本国的人民团结起来拧成一股绳。然后共同抵御外来入侵。这样的民众的力量毫无疑问是非常强大的。因此，他们依靠团结，最后都赢得了斗争。

马尔科姆X做的最重要的事情就是团结了太多的美国黑人，且告诉给了他们活得自由的唯一方式。对比同时代的马丁路德金以及在本片中出镜的纳尔逊曼德拉以及在全世界广泛获得好评的甘地等人。毫无疑问，在马尔科姆X死后，在美国主导的国际舆论中，他本质上不受重视且得不到较全面评价的根本原因就显露无遗了。

美国人更妥协的人，喜欢不抵抗就投降的人，喜欢主动自废武功的人，对于那些崇尚暴力革命，发现根本问题的人自然不会受到推崇和欢迎，他们对于马尔科姆X如此，对于全球范围内的共产主义运动依旧如此。

当然，自救的本身就是相信自己，并用自己的力量来进行斗争，本片中的马尔科姆X一开始相信的是宗教，然而宗教最终的高层却用事实告诉他，所谓的宗教高层都是政客的化身，他们所做的一切并非都是为了理想，更多的则是为了统治地位，同时带给自己更多的获益。马尔科姆X及时的发现了这样的核心，然后脱离了这个罪恶的地方，并开始了自己独立的斗争。了解这一切，再去听《国际歌》确实是句句箴言。靠山山倒，靠水水流，真正能解放我们自己的，唯有我们自己。

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你好，

总分四舍五入为3星。

AE： 我挺喜欢这部的，给我一种节奏很有力的感觉，想起阅读马雅可夫斯基和聂鲁达的政治诗时的感觉。

代表： 我觉得挺好。他电影里的社会议题，还有爵士乐、灵歌，我都很喜欢。

Anni： 我觉得有些段落还可以，但整体看来并不怎么样。导演能力没什么问题，但只是满足了作为一个流畅的电影最低限度的标准。结尾也有点多余。高潮的暗杀拍得还不错，别的没有太多可以说的。

代表： 我觉得他那些拍摄的方式像漫画一样，看似很玩世不恭，但都挺严肃的。

Anni： 确实有点像漫画吧，但感觉并没有平衡得特别好，入狱前比较有趣一些。总体来说我还是觉得他算是个有意思的导演，准备再看一下《为所应为》《黑色党徒》什么的。

代表： 《为所应为》应该是把漫画感发挥最完整的。

吴洛斌： 代表能说说斯派克·李的社会议题么？他如何呈现？我好些朋友说他表达激进。

代表： 我不懂他的议题啊，我不是美国人，不了解黑人历史。其实我比较好奇他加入的那些爵士啊，灵魂乐啊全是黑人音乐，跟他拍的这部电影是否有意识形态的因素。

不错的，通过这部电影了结了Malcolm X这个人物，不然对这人一点都不了解。主要讲述Malcolm X通过争取美国黑人权利所做的努力和成就。但他的社会发展的成长，是靠伊斯兰教的阿訇提携的，发展到后来，跟阿訇穆罕默德发生了分歧，自己想沿着自己的思想带领自己的信徒，按照初衷继续前进，但在形式上，Malcolm X所服务或者工作于或者供职于的伊斯兰教，发生了分裂，因为Malcolm X到与教宗产生分歧的时候，已经发展成一股不可忽视的势力了。但与伊斯兰的教主相比，势力还是稍弱，而且他所提倡的思想包括非暴力。黑人的国内的向白人争取权利的行动，最后变成了内部斗争，结果是伊斯兰教主谋杀了他。但是在伊斯兰教主所领导的信众发展壮大过程中，Malcolm X发挥了很重要的作用，他是一头不知疲倦的牛，而幕后的教主穆罕默德以及刚开始提携他的狱友是收益最多的。那个时代，对于领袖人物，美国国内都是风行暗杀和谋杀，同时期的总统肯尼迪被谋杀，接着Malcolm X被谋杀，再到后来影片中出现的马丁·路德·金被谋杀。原先也只知道丹泽尔·华盛顿的盛名，这次看完本部影片，看影片介绍时，才知道男主角是丹泽尔·华盛顿扮演的。演技还是不错的。7.5分，3.5星吧。

“Malcolm X”, Spike Lee’s first ever biography picture depicting the tragic yet legendary life events as well as the long-lasting legacies of the historic black activist/leader with the same name, who is apparently being dubbed to be one of “the most influential figures” during the Civil Rights Movement Era alongside with Martin Luther King Jr., although oftentimes not as critically well-acclaimed in terms of political reputation compared to King, due to a lot of his controversial approaches and emphasis which were much different from King’s “endorsements of non-violence”, which he instead proposed the specific idea that “ways of violence would sometimes be needed as means of self-defense”, and because of this and many other seemingly radical statements that were being suggested out, was inevitably misinterpreted and misunderstood by not only white folks within the general public, but as well as by his own racial peers or racial group of people, and was indeed constantly deemed an out-cast throughout his political campaign career, as “someone who was promoting the ideas of hatred and violence towards white Caucasians”, or which was that of the case of one-sided depictions that was being repeatedly reported and carried out by many different media outlets out there, at the time/during the particular time period.

In this specific essay, I’m going to further discuss as well as talk about another exceptionally legendary and world-renown civil rights activist figure coming from yet another corner of the world, who happened to appear within one particular scene towards the near-end of this specific film, whose appearance during the entire movie, although only for a brief few minutes, makes everything that was being presented surely more interesting as well as memorable. South African activist Nelson Mandela, who seemed like he was acting in a school instructor/lecturer position within a local South African primary/elementary classroom setting that way, where the classroom was apparently filled with plenty of school-aged children, and, where none of those selected child actors were actually being white Caucasians (by possibly obeserving and telling from the looks, outward appearances and basic skin tone complexions of them), but rather all of African descent, hinting/suggesting it was probably from a time period still during the so-called “Apartheid” racial segregation era within the country itself. After the specific shot of several couple kids quickly standing up and shouting out loud the immediate catchphrase of “I am Malcolm X!”, Mandela, standing in front of all of his students, with his own voice firm and steady, loudly yet proudly stated out the following lines, and no doubt that they surely came from the very deep bottom of the particular civil rights leader’s heart, as he would find himself nodding his head to and aligning with these words once coming out of Malcolm X’s mouth there : “As Brother Malcolm said, we declare our right on this earth to be a man. To be a human being. To be given the rights of a human being. To be respected as a human being, in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intended to bring into existence”, and then the statement itself was rapidly followed after by the last ever line of the whole entire filmwork, which is - “by any means necessary”, while showing the actual historical footage of Malcolm X making the speech during one of his past advocacy gathering rallies, which by this point basically wraps up the entire ending of the whole movie there, with the general credit rollings coming right after that. It is indeed notable/note-worthy that, although being as black civil rights leaders/activists from two separately/individually different countries - South Africa and America, which both also happen to share the specific similarity of being nations with long past histories of facing/dealing with white colonization, the historical circumstances and situations which Mandela himself had to face within his own country, may not be that different from Malcolm X’s, after all. “Aparthied”, which is a Afrikaans (localized South African language/dialect) word/term meaning and standing for “apartness”, by literal definition in English equivalency/translation, is indeed in its very essence, simply yet another form of the political policy of “Racial Segregation” mainly focusing/aiming at the intentional separation of parting blacks from whites within the general societal environment of South Africa, which was by all means, in many ways undeniably similar to the general societal situations/cicumstances which continued on during Malcolm X’s generation back in time within the States. It would be safe to say that generally speaking, in a larger sense, similar societal environments would usually result in similar life experiences of human beings living/residing within the world themselves, no matter whether if these supposed experiences would be that of good or bad, negative or positive; Thus, in yet another sense, it would probably also be absolutely/totally true to conclude that, on this particular matter, Mandela and Malcolm X would also undoubtedly happen to share a deeply profound bound, common symphysis, empathy, and/or resonance, as well as extraordinary internal connections with each other (no matter if spiritually or mentally), since both men are driven by ultimately similar greater goals/aims/ambitions in nature throughout each of their seperate life paths.

The historical episode/chapter of the specific “Apartheid Era” within South Africa in almost any sort of way deeply connects to the “Racial Segregation Generation” within the United States, as it is obvious and no secret that as human beings, our fates as well as destinies are indeed oftentimes interwined as well as deeply connected with each other in subtle and covert manners, whether we would come to realize that or not. So, as a matter of fact, it would be an extra important mission here for us all to gradually learn to how to fight/combat alongside with each other’s shoulders and be able to support each other throughout the process that way, almost like war-time comrades in a sense, just like how Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X were each continuously keeping on doing, instead of fighting/combating against or turning our backs on each other, for this is the only possible way here in order to reach ultimate social justice as well as societal equality for all folks out there, as collective human beings living on this earth. After all, individual power/strength may be small and limited in potential influences or generalized impacts, but once combined altogether that way, the actual result from it could be something that is ever lastingly unignorable, and definitely not to be underestimated.