君子协定

君子协定 Gentleman's Agreement (1947)—第20届奥斯卡最佳影片
 
        宗教、种族歧视一直存在于时代中，还有我们更加熟悉的性别歧视。平等与包容也是很多作品中永恒的主题。追求没有歧视，相对平等的文明是一条漫漫长路。
        影片剧情比较枯燥，没有太大的高低起伏，会让观众处于昏昏欲睡的状态。字幕翻译得惨不忍睹，中间有好几段没有翻译，非常影响观影感受。这类题材的电影，这部只能说一般。

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剧透警告
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现在人们没看过片子就可以写影评或者简介，没看过书就可以写书评。
而且豆瓣这故事梗概是彻底的胡扯，什么跟秘书乔装改扮，彻底的瞎说。

杂志要写的是反犹太问题的连载，杂志社是一个开明并且标榜自由主义的杂志，它自己内部可能也有一些反犹倾向，总体来说不严重，主编甚至要求人力资源总监刊登招聘广告中说明不论宗教都可以应聘。

主编支持主角假扮犹太人去了解情况，写出不同视角而且犀利的文章。最终写出来了。中间有很多争论，但是片子的基调从开始就是反对“反犹主义” 的，片子层层展开的是Phil是如何越来越深刻的理解到反犹太问题，并且最终写出重磅文章，并且女友如何从一个隐含的反犹倾向最终自己认识到问题所在，最终他们团员的故事。

豆瓣信息里的简介全部是瞎扯

美国波士顿犹太人屠杀纪念碑上，刻着一个名叫马丁·尼莫拉的德国新教神甫留下的一段话：起初他们追杀共产主义者，我不是共产主义者，我不说话；接着他们追杀犹太人，我不是犹太人，我不说话；此后他们追杀天主教徒，我不是天主教徒，我不说话；最后他们奔我而来，再也没人站起来为我说话了。

今天下午看了一部很久很久以前的电影，名字叫《君子协定》，我看的老片并不多，有时候看也不是我自己的意愿，那是一个偶然，看名字，并没想到这部电影会这么的老啊！还是黑白的，在想想，看就看吧，反正电脑也没网了，明天就要提前回家了，提前回去过我的五一啦！嘿嘿~

 

       两个小时的片长，看到快结尾的时候，我都快睡着了，戴着耳机趴在桌子上，精神已经神游到不知哪里去了，只迷迷糊糊听到耳机里的男女主人公对话的声音。等到完全清醒的时候，已是下午四点多了，去楼下收了晒蓬松的被子，还和室友去了趟食堂，买了点吃的，回来接着把结尾看了。

 

      刚看不久，我就一直在感慨自己：怎么就找了个这么老的片子撒！ 我猜猜它应该是1958年左右上映的，里面的FOX公司标志竟然还是黑白的。看到中间的时候，我知道了：这片子原来是1947年的啊！ 顿时发觉自己好复古哦！

 

      其实看进去了也就不会觉得它不好看了，我很喜欢里面的男主人公，他好帅，真的！

是如此的英俊，潇洒，只可惜他和我生活的时代不一样哦！。 女主角也不错，长的挺漂亮的。他们的爱情也是一波三折，男主角菲林是个新闻作者，他为了写出一篇连载性的关于反犹太主义的文章，不惜瞒着家人和朋友将自己扮成一个犹太人，为了这篇文章，他付出的代价太大了，爱情和婚姻也几次陷入危机，幸而结局是好的，两人终成眷属，他也抱得美人归~

 

       才知道里面的男主角就是大名鼎鼎的格里高利.派克。

    
 其实一开始我也不熟悉他，直到介绍说他和赫本主演了《罗马假日》时，心里开始对他肃然起敬，我喜欢赫本，但却没有看她的《罗马假日》，我看过她的《战争与和平》，就是因为这个，也让我喜欢上了这个和我生活在不同时代的明星。

 

          《君子协定》拍于第二次世界大战之后，虽然战争结束了，但在各个国家，人们对于犹太人的排挤心理还是根深蒂固，歧视犹太人，限制犹太人的权利和自由，这部影片正式拍于这个时期，给了当时那些反犹太人士一个有力的回击。影片上映后获得各方的好评，并获得了第二十届的奥斯卡最佳影片奖，派克在这次奥斯卡中获得提名，他曾四次获得奥斯卡提名，而1962年的《杀死一只知更鸟》这部电影最终让他获得奥斯卡金像奖。
以下是我在电影里面截的图：

Gentleman’s Agreement is a movie that tells a story about a journalist’s experience of pretending to be a Jew to write an article about anti-Semitism.

What is problematic?
Anti-Semitism was thriving at that time. Jewish people could not even have a job because of their racial identity. Dominant white Christian culture did not tolerant Jewish culture. Therefore, Jewish people were suffering from discrimination in every aspect of their lives. For instance, Jewish people had to conceal their Jewish identity in order to get a job. In the movie, the Jewish secretary Wales had to change her name in order to get the job. And when Tommy’s classmates knew that Tommy was a Jew, they teased him and isolated him because of his Jewish identity. The dominant White Christian culture took control of the society at that time. The social environment at that time was full of discrimination and attacks to Jewish people. The ignorance to other culture made there was no room for other cultures. The dominant position of white Christian culture over Jewish culture resulted in the misunderstanding and lacking of knowledge about minor culture in the society. The Jewish people could not speak out their voices because they were suppressed by the dominant white culture, which led to the miscommunication between Christian people and Jewish people even though they had no intention to do so. For instance, Kathy as a typical “nice” Christian, thought that being silent and feeling guilty when someone told a joke depreciating Jews was an action to against anti-Semitism. She did not know that this was not enough, actions to against those anti-Semitism in her group was the most effective way to alleviate the situation of Jews.
Also, the journalist Philip also experienced ups and downs in his relationship with his fiancée Kathy because of Philip’s experiment of pretending to be a Jew. Philip tried to act and think like a Jew and experienced what a Jew might suffer at that time in person. While Kathy’s acts did not meet his criteria for a soul mate who can take the right side towards anti-Semitism. However, Kathy thought that she was against anti-Semitism and was on the same side as Philip. The way they perceive anti-Semitism is different because they have different personalities. Therefore, this miscommunication caused conflicts between them.

What are the power relations?
Dominant white culture was absolutely over the Jewish culture at that time. Dave is a real Jew and he grew up with Philip. Although Philip is not a Jew, he has strong empathy to what Jewish people feel because his relationship with Dave. However, Philip still had social power identity over Dave. However, Philip’s acts to call for rights for Jews were embedded in his dominant cultural identity. White Christians have totally right of speech at that time. They determined the social realities. No one would like to listen to a Jew’s opinion. Dominant culture would not treat them seriously. However, white Christian guy Philip’s experience and opinions about anti-Semitism became a hot topic at that time because it made people started to rethink the Jewish culture.
What I also noticed was that the masculinity was also over feminity . In their relationship, Philip’s masculinity is obvious. Kathy did not express what she really felt straightforwardly. She haven’t spoken her heart until when Philip criticized her that she has an inherent superiority feeling towards Jewish people and their relationship almost broke down. At that very moment, Kathy cried and argued to Philip that, “You are what you are for the on life you have”. She explained that she has no choice to choose born as a Christian. For Kathy, she thought she was no wrong because she born with her Christian identity. She insisted that she was in the “nice people” group. However, for Philip, Kathy’s inactive action towards anti-Semitism also supported anti-Semitism in some way. Besides, people have different expectation towards Kathy and Philip. In the ending part of the movie, Anne invited Philip for dinner and persuaded Philip that it was not Kathy’s duty to fight for the Jewish people. Kathy was not supposed to do that because of her gender.

How do you see people negotiating?
We can tell the difference between how women and men faces conflicts in a relationship in this movie. When facing conflict, different gender has different negotiation method towards it. When Philip and Kathy had conflict, Philip told Kathy directly how he felt and argued with Kathy angrily. While for Kathy, she tended to hide her feelings and find the third party for help. We can tell that Philip was using low context to deal with the conflict, while Kathy responded to it in relatively high context. In the ending of the movie, when Philip was angry about Kathy because he thought she has superiority over Jews and she did nothing about it. Kathy found the third party, Philip and Kathy’s common friend Dave, to help analyzing the relationship. Therefore, Kathy has very interdependent personality while Philip is very independent. Philip told Kathy how he feels directly while Kathy hadn’t spoken out her idea until she thought they were going to break up. And then, Kathy turned to the third party for help to mend this relationship. That is very interdependent characteristic. In the society, women usually are expected to be submissive and supportive to their partner, even though they may not agree to them. However, a man is encouraged to act direct and controlling in a relationship, especially in a romantic relationship. Especially, Kathy is a divorced woman, so she acted even more careful and doubtful in the relationship.
Also, in the movie, the real Jew Dave and Ms. Wales seemed to be inactive in the anti-Semitism cause. They got used to hide their identity to blend in the society that controlled by the dominant culture. They tended to be silent. They had to rely on their dominant friends to speak out their needs for equality and rights. In contrast, Philip as a white Christian man who was educated and encouraged to speak, acted agitatedly when he was treated unfairly in the hotel and the post office because of his fake Jewish identity. Philip was sensitive and expressed all of his feelings of being sick of anti-Semitism when he pretended to be a Jew. This interesting contrast indicates that how social environment can affect people’s way to negotiate when facing with conflicts.

P.S. Kathy argued with Phil: "You are what you are for the one life you have, you can't help being born Christian instead of Jewish, it doesn't mean you glad you were, but I am glad, There, I said it, I'd be terrible, I'm glad I'm not. I could never make you understand that, You could never understand that it is a fact like being glad you are good-looking instead of ugly, rich instead of poor, young instead of old, healthy instead of sick. You could never understand that. It's just a practical fact,not judgement that I'm superior, but I could never make you see that. You twisted something into horrible, a conniving, an aiding and abetting a thing that I loathe as much as you do. "

When Kathy told Dave that a man said a joke about disgrace on Jewish, Kathy said that she hated it and wanted to tell everyone that this was not good, however, what she actually did was just sat there and felt ashamed.
"If you don't stop that joke, where do you stop?"