Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty blacks. Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gjRBbEKwFc
虽然技术水平有限但人物塑造还是挺丰富的
黑人有自己的“汉奸”。读完Chatterjee发现这是“how nationalism answers the feminist question”典型的例子～
种族主义的题材，很大胆。故事一地稀碎……字幕过多，英语太差看的很累……据说是对D.W.格里菲斯《一个国家的诞生》的回应……
1910s-20s众多描写黑人电影中少有的敢直视民族事实和问题的电影。影片边边角角讲述的education vs religion，unspeakable trauma， racial identity 比前大半部分的uplifting story+romantic drama好太多。信奉真实的导演在大众面前必然具有争议性。