Racial discrimination against people of color is one of the themes
that Hollywood film societies often exploit and appreciate in the Oscars.
Looking back on Oscar in recent years, in 2014, the film 12 Years a Slave won
the best film of the year at the Oscars, by 2015 the film Selma was nominated,
in 2017 has recently had two films are Moonlight and Fences was nominated, in
which Moonlight won Best Film of the Year. At the upcoming 2018 Oscars,
Mudbound is sure to be the brightest color film, next to the movie Get Out on
the color theme.
The film is based in a poor countryside in the Mississippi
Delta, where muddy surroundings and intellectuals are still heavily influenced
by racist ideology. At one farm, originally owned by the black-skinned Jackson
grandfather who had been taken over by whites, the Jackson family had to work
for the new owner of the White McAllan family. It is important that despite the
differences in skin color, both Jackson and McAllan's children were enlisted
and fought across the hemisphere against Nazi Germany during World War II.
While Ronsel was a tank soldier on the front lines, Jamie
was also a B-25 fighter pilot from the air. At the end of the war, two young
veterans returned to their hometowns with outcasts, battling their own
problems. They are the abandoned generation - a term coined by the great writer
Ernest Hemingway to imply a generation of adolescents who engage in war with
enthusiasm and return to a
fleshly and mentally devastated, complete life.
meaningless.
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One day, the war ended, Ronsel and Jamie returned home.
Ronsel, when he fought on the plane, saw his teammate
head-to-head, his teammates on the other planes were knocked out and he alone
survived the fierce battle. From then on, Jamie was severely injured. Returning
to his hometown as captain and receiving honorary medals, Jamie was haunted by
the horrors of war and had to drink alcohol to get drunk to forget the present.
Meanwhile, Ronsel has a white girlfriend in Germany, to
split her hand to return home. Despite being an honorary soldier with a rank of
sergeant, Ronsel still faces racial discrimination, especially from Pappy, the
father of the McAllan family. Ronsel was forced to go door after buying
groceries. With a personality from a soldier, Ronsel did not succumb and was
depressed but could not change anything in the countryside.
And the miracle happened when Jamie and Ronsel met. The two
soldiers who had gone through the war, along with other skinless comrades,
experienced pain and loss, quickly became close friends and shared their lives.
Jamie is the only white person in this area who is good for a black man,
because it does not matter to Jamie. The team that drove the plane to save
Jamie in the fierce battle in the past was a black man. And from then on, Jamie
realized that everyone was the same, regardless of whether they were black or
white. Perhaps this is something only experienced people and faced with war as
Jamie understands.
But life is not easy. When Jamie's father Pappy met his son
with Ronsel, he was very angry. By the time Ronsel had forgotten the photograph
taken by a white German girl with his two children in the car Jamie and Pappy
had caught, Crazy and decided to do something terrible: Call the people in the
Assembly KKK (Association secret that white people are superior, often cover
white hat and attack the blacks) to both Ronsel and Jamie to a warehouse and
asked to execute two people.
This is the most dramatic and touching scene, when we
witnessed Ronsel being tortured, stripped naked and hung up as if dealing with
an animal, not a human. But Jamie's friendship and spirit, despite being
considered a traitor to his family, is a traitor to his race, and Jamie is
determined to protect his dark-skinned friend to the end. Face the risk of
execution with your friend.
And then there was the sad ending, when one was killed and
one crippled for life. But this is not a sad movie that despairs hope, as
neither Jamie nor Ronsel are dead. And to the final frames of the film, before
the Mudbound closes, Ronsel arrives in Germany to meet his girlfriend and son,
making the horrible things of his hometown go away.
Using the muddy image from the film's title and throughout
the movie as a metaphorical symbol, Mudbound successfully communicated the
meaning of racism in the post-war United States as well as poor, bottom-up
lives. Such as the mud of poor people in the poor countryside.
Mudbound has won 19 wins and 31 nominations at various film
festivals and awards, including two Golden Globes nominations in 2018. Mudbound
is a movie about the brightest people in the upcoming Oscar season, and it's an
emotional movie by director Dee Rees.
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