My Brooklyn

My Brooklyn

年份:2012

地区:美国

上映:

评分:0.0 分

播放:10 次

更新:2020年08月16日

导演:Kelly Anderson

编剧:

主演:

分类:纪录片

My Brooklyn is a documentary about Director Kelly Anderson’s personal journey, as a Brooklyn “gentrifier,” to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and class. The story begins when Anderson moves to Brooklyn in 1988, lured by cheap rents and bohemian culture. By Michael Bloomberg’s election as mayor in 2001, a massive speculative real estate boom is rapidly altering the neighborhoods she has come to call home. She watches as an explosion of luxury housing and chain store development spurs bitter conflict over who has a right to live in the city and to determine its future. While some people view these development patterns as ultimately revitalizing the city, to others, they are erasing the eclectic urban fabric, economic and racial diversity, creative alternative culture, and unique local economies that drew them to Brooklyn in the first place. It seems that no less than the city’s soul is at stake.
  Meanwhile, development officials announce a controversial plan to tear down and remake the Fulton Mall, a popular and bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district just blocks from Anderson’s apartment. She discovers that the Mall, despite its run-down image, is the third most profitable shopping area in New York City with a rich social and cultural history. As the local debate over the Mall’s future intensifies, deep racial divides in the way people view neighborhood change become apparent. All of this pushes Anderson to confront her own role in the process of gentrification, and to investigate the forces behind it more deeply.
  She meets with government officials, urban planners, developers, advocates, academics, and others who both champion and criticize the plans for Fulton Mall. Only when Anderson meets Brooklyn-born and raised scholar Craig Wilder, though, who explains his family’s experiences of neighborhood change over generations, does Anderson come to understand that what is happening in her neighborhoods today is actually a new chapter in an old American story. The film’s ultimate questions become how to heal the deep racial wounds embedded in our urban development patterns, and how citizens can become active in restoring democracy to a broken planning process.
登录后参与评论
灭灭

居民的抗议基本都是“我的生活”“我的文化”“我的朋友”这些在看似法律中恐怕根本站不住脚的理由。说白了,如果处在中产以下,生活就总是会面临各种问题,可以是布鲁克林的,也可以是北京的。但并不能就说他们落后、保守或者脆弱;也不能说政府有多坏。只是因为在用金钱作为唯一价值的资本系统中是如此。因为这个系统中个体的生活、感情、文化的价值都因为无法量化而被忽略。我觉得并非是资本的问题,而是量化的问题,说到底可能还是人类认知的局限性?

回复 举报

回复 举报
CNBorn

原来这就是现在光鲜的布鲁克林背后的故事(还记得欲望都市里大家提起布鲁克林的不屑)gentrification 确实是个复杂的问题

回复 举报

也许您会喜欢

  • 电影
  • 电视剧
  • 综艺
  • 动漫
  • 纪录片