Detroit has the nickname of "Motor City", but it is also a car that has become a car and a car that has failed, and it has witnessed how the United States has gone to glory, and it has also witnessed the depression of the United States after the financial crisis.

Two years ago, in December, the city of Detroit officially declared bankruptcy, making it the largest city government in U.S. history.

But the collapse of the edifice did not happen overnight, and Detroit's decay began in the sixties.

In its glory days, the headquarters of the three major American automobile companies General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were located here.

But in the sixties, OPEC, an oil-exporting country, was founded, and the major oil-producing countries in the Middle East, including Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, became members of the world's key organizations to control oil prices.

At the same time, the labor activism movement fueled by labor disputes was exacerbating tensions between wage earners and the government, and the percentage of black residents in Detroit was rapidly rising due to the increasing immigration of African-Americans from the South.

As conservative whites complained about the rise of blackness, a large number of retailers and small business owners left, and Detroit's taxes continued to decline. Eventually, it led to large-scale riots that year, which led to the intensification of the conflict to the climax.

Within a decade, large swathes of buildings and homes in Detroit were abandoned, but the crisis remained beneath the surface.

In the seventies, the Fourth Middle East War broke out, and in order to strike at Israel and its supporters, the Arab members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries announced the withdrawal of the right to price oil, which caused oil prices to rise sharply more than threefold, thus triggering the worst global economic crisis since the Second World War.

The rise in oil prices has led to an increase in the resilience and competitiveness of small-displacement vehicles from small automakers such as Europe and fake countries, while the U.S. auto industry has been hit hard.

The three major automobile companies were forced to lay off employees, relocate their manufacturing plants to third world countries, and related parts manufacturers also moved out.

As a result of the massive job losses, coupled with the massive influx of heroin and cocaine, Detroit's property crime and drug-related crime have skyrocketed, and the "Motor City" has gone downhill.

In the 80s, the U.S. economy continued to slump, racial tensions intensified and high taxes were levied on the wealthy, resulting in the continuous outflow of Detroit's elite population, a large number of factories and residences were abandoned and idle, houses became the most worthless things, and a large number of one-dollar "mansions" were put up for sale without buyers.

After the turn of the millennium, the situation became more serious, and the outbreak of the financial crisis detonated the backlog of problems, and the automobile manufacturing industry collapsed.

Eventually, two years ago, in December, the city of Detroit officially declared bankruptcy, and overnight, countless workers were displaced and did not even have the money to buy bread.

Detroit gradually became an empty city, a dead city.

It was in this situation that the Black Hole Band and the team came to Detroit together.

They planned to shoot in the southeast part of the city, where the decay began, and apocalyptic scenes were everywhere, with not a single figure within kilometers.

Most of the people who live here are drug addicts, homeless people and criminals with criminal records.

Cologne's team has a total of four vehicles, each with security personnel, and the Black Hole Band is similar.

The person in charge of the Black Hole band's security is an acquaintance, Red-faced Jack.

Coren took the car around and picked up a dilapidated unfinished building, which was a straight road in front of it, but it had been lacking in use and maintenance for a long time, and the road surface had cracked a little, and weeds grew out of the cracks, reminiscent of a documentary called "The World After the Humans Disappeared".

"Although the government announcement says that the economy is improving, there is no performance in sight here. ”

The bodyguards entered the unfinished building to conduct security checks in case homeless people or addicts were hiding in it and posing danger, while Coren and Cao Wu and others chatted downstairs next to the car.

"At the end of last year, the Michigan government returned the city's financial authority to the city of Detroit, but Detroit didn't expect to get better when it was managed by the rotten government. ”

"That group, more than half of them have problems, they're the umbrella for criminals in the whole city, and it's the only city where you have to be careful when you drive against the police, because they're likely to throw drugs into your car to blackmail you. ”

"If DC were to remake Batman, I don't think there's any city that would be more like Gotham. Coren made a joke, and Cao Wu and the others were full of emotion.

They have already traveled half the United States, and there has never been a time when they have felt the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States so clearly.

As prosperous as Los Angeles and Houston are, how decaying they are, Red-faced Jack has already chased away the third sneaky homeless man who is not far away.

He said that those people were probably armed and that they had to be careful.

Before the filming began, the police from the nearby police station heard the news and asked to check the filming permit.

They didn't receive the report so quickly, but this time they acted quickly.

Colon didn't get permission to shoot, but that wasn't a problem, and he stuffed the police with a roll of "Hamilton" and sent them away.

After paying the protection money, even the homeless man who probed his brain disappeared.

However, Colon was still worried, urging him to hurry up and shoot, if he couldn't finish filming today, he would probably have to go to the director tomorrow to "worship the mountain", and then it would not be a volume of "Hamilton" that could be dismissed.

It's cloudy in Detroit today, and it's not raining yet, but it's just enough for Cologne.

After setting up the instruments and equipment, everyone started filming nervously.

Coren chose several angles and took several sets of pictures on the ground floor, inside the building, and on the roof of the unfinished building.

What the Black Hole Band has to do is play a song unplugged in these locations, and at most a few more cool looks during the close-up.

The assistant director went out in a car and shot several sets of sky scenes in different locations, and when he came back, the scenes in the building were also filmed.

Putting away the tracks, it was raining outside, and Coren had the film crew set up the machine and start shooting on the road.

The main character in this scene is Cao Wu, who is walking along a dilapidated road in the pouring rain, while Koren is wearing a raincoat and hiding behind a monitor to watch the photographer take a picture of his back.

At the end of October, the weather had turned cooler, and after walking back and forth in the heavy rain several times, shivering from the cold, I finally finished shooting.

Xiao Guo had already prepared towels, electric blankets, ginger soup and other things to keep out the cold, and as soon as the shooting was over, he covered Cao Wu tightly.

He is the lead singer of the band, and during the promotion period, he can't have physical problems.

The material is enough, Coren said that he will go back to finish the post-production, the first MV will be released, and the Black Hole Band's album chart will officially begin.