Have you ever done anything to make your life better?::[心情|Heart]

几天来，感觉自己象风干了的咸鱼，虽然有些东西要说，不过我知道味道一定会很咸，别人没怎么地，自己先感动的不行了（兵家之大忌）。不如先腌着，也许什么时候雨水会冲刷掉我的盐分，让我能够好好的说话。

American History X，一部讲述美国种族歧视的电影，Derek 和 Danny（高中生），他们的消防员父亲在一次事故中被黑人打死，从此兄弟两个人对其他裔的人产生了很深的仇恨，甚至创办纳粹党，打架结社，做了很多的坏事情。

Derek后来因为杀人进了监狱，在监狱里发现少数裔的黑人并不想他想象的那么坏，而是那些白人，无恶不作，却没有得到应有的惩罚。

从监狱里出来后，Derek和Danny开始转变，他们的开始接受其它少数裔的存在，而Danny也想将他所理解的和睦相处的美好写在作文里。

可是积怨太深，寻仇的黑人错杀了Danny。影片结束在Danny的作文里，那是他美好的愿望，和忏悔。

故事情节也不算曲折，可是能够反映种族歧视的电影往往要受到很大的压力，这部电影里从少数裔的角度，和从白人的角度看问题，例如对很多传统的观念提出挑战。有1/3的黑人曾经有过犯法的经历，片中认为更多的是因为社会的偏见和体制，更倾向于认为，确信，鼓动黑人去犯罪，甚至很多的时候是社会逼迫他们去犯罪。

社会问题，错综盘根，根本不是一部电影能够解决的，但是真的佩服导演[Tony Kaye]能够大胆的揭露，使这样的事情让大家都知道，让大家知道现在还有很深的种族积怨。

里面有一句话非常好，是Derek在监狱里被鸡奸后很痛苦，又不愿意合作来解决这件事情，一个黑人警官问他：

Have you ever done anything to make your life better?

不是么？如果你从来没有努力来改变你的生活，没有努力使你的生活变的更好，你又能期待上帝给你什么呢？

Summary written by Julian Reischl

Derek and Danny Vinyard, brothers, got into the wrong hands. A very right-winged man managed to twist their thoughts and did the same thing to them that Hitler did to the masses. They and their fellows are feeling as a part of a community that is exploited by people who do not have the right to do so: Illegal immigrants, the Black, the Yellow and all the others who use their minority position to extract rights over the Whites from it - or so they are convinced. So, hatred against the "others" grows, and when it comes to a case of self-defense, Derek kills in rage, in hate, in thirst for blood. In jail, his eyes are opened and he can see the mistakes in the definition which made him a Nazi out of belief. In a slow development, Derek turns to be a completely different man. When released, his prime target is to get his younger brother Danny out of the fangs of the blindfolded.

Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) returns from prison to find his younger brother, Danny (Edward Furlong), caught in the same web of racism and hatred that landed him in prison. After Derek's father is killed in the line of duty by a minority, Derek's view of mankind is altered, but while in prison, he discovers that there is good and bad in every race. The task before him now is to convince Danny of his newfound enlightenment.

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第 1 楼：

对对，腌过的东西一定不能直接上桌的，这个道理连大字不认的老婆婆都很懂。必须先拿水浸过，然后加入调味料，可就成了人人都爱的美味了。总是比山珍海味受欢迎的。

如果你是咸鱼，那就更好了，腌好了之后，拿到檐下风干。完全干的硬硬的，浸水都可以免了。平底锅，加少许油，烧热，将鱼炸至两面金黄。装入盘子，配新鲜蔬菜一盘。以烙的金黄酥脆的玉米饼为主餐。

啊，胜似神仙。

注意的是，鱼一定要腌到干而咸，要不然不够味。

第 2 楼：

^_^，我先预定咸鱼5斤。

第 3 楼：

"HAVE YOU EVEN DONE ANYTHING TO MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER? "
这样的话看很多了...可是不知道为什么这次颇有感触. 才刚刚开始来这里看些东西...发现可以从6E这里得到很多...谢谢你!:)

第 4 楼：

五年前正好也看过，印象深刻。仍然记得最后的镜头，海面，残阳如血，背景是danny的独白：If someone ask derek when ....I think he would say it's from father's death,but...记不清了
哎。。。不知道该说什么，呵呵。
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