"Harriet" is full of romance. There are no detailed shots of slave whipping and other cruel punishments in the film
. Only short-term scars and implied cruelty can give the audience a glimpse of the terrible suffering suffered by the slaves
; the film will focus more on the terrible suffering suffered by the slaves . It is refreshing in terms of the efforts the slaves have made to fight for freedom
. However, "Harriet" is not enough to be a good film. The film’s narrative structure is formulaic, the dialogue is clichéd, and the villain character is also very facial. At the same time, the heroine Harriet is surrounded by the protagonist’s halo, making the audience unable to understand Her thoughts and feelings empathize, and she can't really understand that deep history through the film. Fortunately, the heroine Cynthia Erivo made this role more three-dimensional, brilliantly interpreting the character's strength, pain and fragility
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Harriet evaluation action
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Extended Reading
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Harriet: [addressing the Colored Union regiment] Suppose there's a snake coiled at your feet, and it shoots up to bite you. Folks get scared and send for a doctor to cut out the bite. But the snake, he rolled up there and while the doctor cutting, he bites you again, in a new place this time. The doctor makes another cut, the snake spring up and bites again. Finally you realize the snake ain't gonna stop till someone kills him. Slavery is still alive. Those rice fields downriver are feeding Rebel troops, with the toil of a thousand slaves still in bondage. Our mission is to free those slaves. We've waited years to be allowed to fight in this war, against our own enslavement. And it will not be won without us! Now is our time! Are you ready to kill the snake?
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Edward Brodess: What's this here nigger talking about?