在周五晚上的多伦多国际电影节上，纳特·帕克（Nate Parker）的《一个国家的诞生》（the Birth of a Nation）连续两次上映，两位观众都起立鼓掌。观众们观看了《避雷针》自圣丹斯首映以来的首次电影节放映，还有编剧、导演、制片人、影星奈特·帕克及其17名演员和剧组成员，他们和他一起上台参加了电影后期问答；一个会话。

在晚上9点的节目中，问题和答案都显得漫无目的——一位观众花了至少3分钟的时间问，“白人能做些什么来帮助支持有色人种呢？”作为回报，她得到了《出生》联合主演阿米·哈默（Armie Hammer）漫无目的、并不完全相关的回答。另一方面，共同主演加布里艾尔·尤尼恩为旧金山49人队四分卫Colin Kaepernick辩护，以及在足球比赛期间在国歌中的**，引起了热烈的掌声。不过，谈到这部电影时，与之交谈的演员和剧组成员都在传递一些信息，在帕克大学**案再次被质疑后，他们为帕克辩护，称他是一个好人，是一个慷慨的导演，而在谈话中，帕克并没有被直接提及。

但帕克的一个问题得到了特别直接和有力的回答。一位听众问帕克，“在当前总统选举和黑人生命物质运动的背景下”，他希望《国家的诞生》向听众传达什么信息

Someone asked me once, "What do you think the difference is between the civil-rights movement of old, and the current civil-rights movement?" And I had to think about it. What I came out with was, they were willing to die for the change they wanted to see. I look at the story of Nat Turner — I don’t look at someone that sacrificed for a future he’d be able to enjoy. He gave his life for future generati***… Nat Turner had an axe, broom handles, that’s all he had. We have much more powerful tools. So I think we should all look at this story, in the sense that this was one person who stood against a system that was oppressing people. And if we can relate to that in 2016, we must ask ourselves, what are we willing to give up? What are we willing to sacrifice for what we want our children, and our children’s children, to enjoy?

There’s this quote, the Bible says "A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children." And so often, in this very lenient society, we don’t think that with every breath we take, we’re getting closer to the end of our lives. So it’s about what we leave for our children’s children… What do you see in your community that’s unjust, and what are you willing to do to stand against that thing? Whether it be voting — we have a big, massive voting drive — whether it be [dealing with] that person that may not be the most kind in his words when it comes to racial sensitivity, or whatever it is. I think we all have to look to ourselves to see what we can be changing, in terms of moving forward. What do we require of ourselves? And I’d love to get answers from other people, but I think that the first question has to be internal. What can we do to affect the kind of change we want to see, and how can we be that change?

现在电影周围的很多对话似乎都是预先准备好的谈话点和偏离，反复不断，变化不大(帕克是个好人，除了帕克，很多人都在这部电影里工作，我们只是很荣幸来到这里。）所以，直接回到电影相关的内容上，找到一个话题，帕克似乎不仅立场坚定，而且准备以个人信念的力量发言，这确实是一种解脱。看到他反映出他目前战斗之外的更大问题，这是一种解脱。目前还不清楚，一场国家对话的诞生是否会完全回到电影本身的角度，但这至少让人觉得这是向前迈出的一个有益的一步。