As an original movie of Apple TV+, "The Banker " brings together many familiar faces to the audience, including "Falcon" Anthony Mackie , "Director of S.H.I.E.L.D." Samuel L. Jackson , plus "X-Men" Nicholas Hoult. The three superheroes join forces to bring a legendary adventure story.
In the 1950s, African American entrepreneurs Bernard and Joe had no choice but to hire white Matt to play the role of their company's "boss" in order to break through racial constraints. After years of struggle, they finally created their own industrial empire.
At that time, the United States was at the peak of racial discrimination. Various social restrictions on black people squeezed their living space to the limit, especially in the upper class society, which excluded black people.
Bernard lives in an ordinary black family. His father just wants to work steadily and ensure that the family has enough food and clothing. However, Bernard is not a conformist. As early as his childhood, he tried every means to learn from white people how to calculate financial formulas and how to do business. He never gave up even if he was chased or beaten. It was this persistence in doing things that laid the foundation for Bernard's future success.
Starting from buying and selling properties, Bernard started his gold-mining career. With his cleverness and extraordinary computing power, his assets continued to increase. At this time, when he encountered a bottleneck in his work, he unexpectedly welcomed the most important partner in his life-Qiao. The two were strangers when they first met, and they disliked each other. They fought side by side in their future careers and became the closest comrades.
As a movie with business war as the background, the most successful aspect of this film is undoubtedly that it compresses a long process of more than ten years into a few wonderful moments, allowing the audience to fully appreciate the tension and excitement of business war in a very short period of time.
The whole film mainly focuses on three major events, one is the purchase of a commercial building in the most prosperous area of Los Angeles, the other is the transition from the property market to the financial market, the acquisition of Continental Bank and Marin Bank of in Texas, and the third is the conspiracy by opponents, complaints and struggles in court.
Each story has its own highlights. For example, when buying a commercial building, Bernard fully demonstrated his extraordinary computing power and ability to control the overall situation. He calculated every move his opponent made. They also thought of countermeasures to allow the front-stage actor Matt to perform confidently and boldly. Matt, a young man who knew nothing, turned into an expert who can play golf, taste good wine, and even accurately calculate bank interest rates after just one month of training. It is equally amazing.
Among them, the acquisition of Continental Bank was the most important turning point in the lives of Bernard and Joe. If holding a large number of properties will not disturb the capital market of the United States, then mastering the bank is tantamount to directly declaring war on the mainstream American society.
Perhaps Bernard has already planted this belief in his heart since he was a child. He not only wants to improve his own life, but also wants to change the living conditions of the entire black population in America. Therefore, despite the difficulties and dangers ahead, he keeps moving forward. But Joe is different. He seems to be playful and disrespectful, but in fact he has already seen through the injustice of the world. He is wild and unrestrained. His restrained appearance was just to cover up his deep disappointment in society.
In the early days, he had always firmly resisted Bernard's choice, thinking it was too absurd and a bit like hitting a rock with an egg. However, with Bernard's insistence, Joe still chose to compromise, because deep down in his heart, there also lived a restless soul who wanted to change his destiny.
This is why when they lost the lawsuit and their property was basically confiscated, they still retained an optimistic attitude. In fact, when the two chose to acquire the bank, the outcome was already doomed. Based on their Ability cannot shake the deep-rooted system of the United States at all, but some people are born like this. The value of their existence does not lie in completely turning the system around, but in using their courage to let future generations see hope, so that resistance is no longer an illusory thing. From this point of view, Bernard and Joe are real heroes.
In order to ease the tense tone of the film, the film also adds a lot of warm descriptions of family in the context of time and space to dilute the chilling atmosphere of swords and swords.
Bernard’s wife never abandons him, no matter in good times or in bad times, no matter whether the family is rich or penniless, this gentle and wise woman always stands behind him and becomes the warmest support. It is also this woman who, in Bernard’s life, It inspired him when he was most hesitant and helpless, allowing him to move forward bravely on the path he believed to be the right path without any distractions.
Some people say that behind every successful man there is a woman who silently supports him. This is true at all. They are not showy, but they hold up another sky that no one can see.
It is undeniable that the subject matter involved in "The Banker" is very interesting, especially in the United States where the "Freud incident" is becoming more and more intense, and it has a deep political connotation. Several conflicts throughout the film are handled relatively mildly, and the private prosecution in the court is not overly exaggerated. However, the anti-racial tone revealed from the inside out makes the film appear very "politically correct" from any angle.
In recent years, a large number of films reflecting the "black struggle" have emerged in Hollywood , such as " 12 Years a Slave ", " Hidden Figures " and " Green Book " and " Just Mercy ". These works are both artistic and watchable. However, after careful analysis, it is found that many of the movies are a bit exaggerated. They can be liked by American audiences and even win awards. In addition to their own quality, they rely more on the blessing of off-site factors, the so-called "political correctness."
Ever since, after seeing the success of their predecessors, a large number of movies with similar themes have sprung up, flooding the big screens in the United States. When the so-called "political correctness" concept becomes mainstream, the consequence is that creators no longer focus on how to create better innovations, but how to resonate with the audience, have an impact on society, and even please film critics, thereby winning awards.
Everything has two sides. On the one hand, we should allow and even welcome the emergence of movies with similar themes, but on the other hand, we must control the degree. You see, today's Hollywood has gone to extremes on the issues of "feminism" and "blackness". There must be blacks among the main characters, and they cannot appear in negative images. Many IPs are constantly being launched with women as the main characters. Movies that have been filmed, and even the next "007" may become a woman.
Considering the virtuous circle of the industry, the consequences of this are very serious. Not only will it fail to promote the improvement of black people's standards, it will be counterproductive. Many good black films or black actors will be labeled as alternative. This is undoubtedly disrespectful to those black practitioners who have worked hard and seriously for a long time.
At the same time, the "Black Movement" has not really changed the problem of racial discrimination in the United States. You must know that racial discrimination not only targets black people, but also targets all other people of color, including Asians. But in the United States today, when racial discrimination is mentioned, many people's first reaction is black people. However, in fact, compared with black people, other people of color receive more unfair treatment and it is more obvious. However, they do not have as much say as black people and can even penetrate into the top levels of the government.
When black people encounter injustice, they can vent their anger through various channels, including movies. Other races do not even have such an opportunity. There are very few films that reflect the unfair treatment they receive. The reason for this is simply that the proportion of black people among the American people is very high. As a result, a strange circle has been formed in which white people bully black people, and black people and white people join forces to bully other people of color. For other people of color, is it not the case that black people are racially discriminatory against them?
Therefore, we hope to see movies that reflect racial discrimination with a broader depth and a more comprehensive display, rather than the "double standards" like today, which continue to take pleasure in making fun of Asians and other minority groups, and take it for granted. Otherwise, such anti-racial discrimination movies will just become the self-pleasure of some self-righteous Americans wearing tinted glasses.
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