1.Brief Introduction of Author
Toni Morrison
African-American female writer
Her novels particularly focused
on racial & gender issues of black
women
Wrote The Bluest Eye based on her
‘real life experience’
Main Characters
Pecola Breedlove
A poor, black girl eager to have white skin and blue eyes.
She becomes insane at the end of the novel
Claudia Ma
middle-class
A rapidly growing middle class has emerged. According to the National Bureau of Statistic of PRC (NBS), middle class refers to those with annual household income of 60,000 yuan (USD 7,230) to 500,000 yuan (USD 60,240). This group of people has stable income, can afford private-owned houses and cars, and have extra money to spend on beauty goods, holiday and education. They have hig
filth is better left in the
"Sin Cities."
IRIS
A.k.a. Minneapolis - St. Paul.
PULL AWAY from MINNEAPOLIS SKYLINE to COUNTRYSIDE.
EXT. QUAINT MAIN STREET
The camera drives down the street.
EXT. PICTURESQUE MIDDLE-CLASS NEIGHBORHOODS
The camera drives down the street.
EXT. SUBURBAN HOUSE
A HAPPY FAMILY raises the AMERICAN FLAG.
EXT. SUBURBAN DRIVEWAY
BURLY GUYS look up from washing a FORD TR
Americans,
is that well sell
our souls for a giggle.
Listen, uh, we have
the problem solved.
All we have to do now
is find the solution.
[sobbing]
Like what?
Like deep throat.
Deep what?
Throat.
Have you ever taken
a penis all the way down
to the bottom
of your throat?
lt was a badge of
the new freedom.
[projector whirring]
Have you been
to the experience
of paying to go
in a porno theater
[woman
middle-class street. Two cars in the driveway, one
behind the other. Lights on inside the house -- as he rings
the bell.
ED RAMA
Answers it. Hispanic. Late 30s. Chairman Mao on his T-
shirt notwithstanding, an easygoing sort of fellow. Not
looking for any trouble -- anymore. But once did, and able
to handle himself if any shows up. Which it has.
WILSON
Edward Rama?
ED
Eduardo.
(rolling the R)
Ram