2014年十大影片之选——时报金牌影评人推荐

9. The raw material of Justin Simien’s “Dear White People” is raw indeed. The state of race relations looks pretty bad right now, and things don’t look so great on our college campuses either. Rather than soothe us with false hope or dreams of consensus, Mr. Simien offers the homeopathic remedy of elegant, intelligent comedy. His fictional Ivy League university is a hotbed of political posturing and social rivalry, but it is also a laboratory of shifting identities where the possibility of enlightenment is never entirely foreclosed. Kind of like America.

9. 贾斯汀·西米恩(Justin Simien)的《亲爱的白人们》(Dear White People)采用的素材的确新鲜直接。目前的种族关系状况很糟，在校园里也不见得有多好。西米恩没有用虚假的希望或天下大同的梦想安抚我们，而是以一部优美、聪明的喜剧以毒攻毒。他虚构的常青藤联盟大学是政治姿态与社会对抗的温床，但也是提升身份认同的实验室，启蒙的可能性从未消失，就像美国一样。