9.29.2011
Movie:
A Good Man
This
movie is a documentary of a modern dance directed by Bill T. Jones to celebrate
Abraham Lincoln’s birth. It shows the process of producing a masterpiece of contemporary
dance, which is historically meaningful to the United States. Jones says of
Lincoln “ He was the only white man I was allowed to love unconditionally.”
From the casting to the music editing, the representation of the tension
between black and white in United States history was carefully designed and
interpreted through the art of movement.
Although the dance speaks about democracy, Johns forces his dancers,
actors, composers and musicians into torturous situation for the sake of art.
The power of liberation needs to be expressed through an art form. Although
society system wants us to believe that the racial issue has been fixed, its
still unequal in reality. Johns is the only black man in the one of the preview
dinners. When Johns reads out the injustice of the white dominant power, people
were educated through his talk. At the end of the movie, Johns decide to see a
train as the closing scene, to represent the history of the democratic process
and the continuity of liberation. 
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