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Andreanne 2022-10-26 15:40:02
The world is actually a big prison, choose to die, or become a marionette, or pay the price and be yourself. Old movies and Burt Lancaster are like flowing water, slow and slow, steady and solid, but the whole process is wonderful. PS "How dare you lie here and talk about death at your age?" This sentence had an enlightening effect on...
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Nathan 2022-10-23 21:48:57
#Alfie. 2021.08.11. Even in prison, people have individuality, and uniformity does not mean destroying the right to choose how to behave as a human being. Shocked...
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Madisen 2022-10-18 11:36:43
"Prison management stole from prisoners the most important thing in their lives - their personality. When they went out they were lost, like robots, with a step-by-step life, but inside there was a deep, deep hatred of what you imposed on them. , once they have the opportunity to take revenge on society, they will not let it go. The result? More than half of them go back to...
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Else 2022-10-15 19:57:36
The caged bird can also choose the life they want and create splendor in captivity. The bird that flew out flew back, getting used to the inertia of the cage. Know humility, know freedom, and know how to respect life. Life and captivity are often so close together, the metaphor of Bird Island. Male lead actor-level...
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Isaiah 2022-10-09 17:13:22
A birdman who has been in solitary confinement all his life but has a free mind that transcends space and a broad vision... The story between Fangcun is so full and vivid, the narrative rhythm is calm and fascinating, and every turning point is arranged just right. From birds and people, from the prison to reflect the society outside the prison. Frankheimer and Lancaster are the best of five collaborations. The mirror movement is wonderful, the tilt lens, many people and birds are captured in...
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Briana 2022-09-13 01:02:29
Great admiration, endless motivation for knowledge. In slow motion, the bird is born and learns to...
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Griffin 2022-08-19 07:18:17
Prison restricts personal freedom, but it cannot restrict the desire to pursue life and explore the soul. Those who can endure loneliness will eventually become great weapons. The director uses a solid lens and a straightforward way to portray a legendary character on the screen vividly, without exaggeration or pretentiousness, and the plot is real and full. Lancaster's interpretation of the character's mental journey is very good, Selma Ritter It's a pity that none of the six female supporting...
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Winfield 2022-06-21 21:35:33
Re-watching in 2019, it is amazing. It's actually such a scientific story. Burt's performance is particularly moving. He shows the rebelliousness at the beginning and the soft side of human nature that he occasionally shows later, which makes people feel distressed. There are waves in the story, and it is in every detail, and the sympathetic love is also played with full enthusiasm. It is quite heart-wrenching in several places, and no character is monotonous and flat. It was the first time I...
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Meggie 2022-06-21 20:24:20
Troud's character characteristics are most vividly shown in the part where he asks the jailer for a wooden box. In the first half, he is a spoiled and unguided young man, and in the second half, after self-examination and learning, he gradually becomes an educated man. A great scholar, even a doctor who does nothing can thank him. This passage can be called a watershed in the whole film, from which one can glimpse into Troud's character development, so that the violence in the first half of the...
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Marley 2022-06-21 18:46:53
Similarities between prison and education: trying to change a person, always trying to make him behave according to his own standards, but forgetting the most fundamental source of respect and motivation for the individual - interests and...
Birdman of Alcatraz Comments
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Robert Stroud: Why did you come 2,000 miles for nothing? Just to see me once a month?
Stella Johnson: I came because I'm your wife, that's why. Bob, the only life I got is you.
Robert Stroud: Then you've got a damned poor future, old girl. I'm never gonna get outta here.
Stella Johnson: I could get a job in a factory. I could write letters every day. It would be like old times.
Robert Stroud: You'd wither away and die waiting. Forget it, Stell. It's the end of the line.
Robert Stroud: Please, Bob.
Robert Stroud: Now, listen to me. Listen carefully. You fought your heart out for me. You fought your heart out for me, but the sun's gone down. And don't look for it to rise again. I want you to pretend that I'm a dead man. I want you to pretend... that you're standin' on my grave.
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Harvey Shoemaker: Bob... I've been sent here as a delegate of the Bureau to make you an offer.
Robert Stroud: That's what I've been waiting for.
Harvey Shoemaker: Now the bureau is willing to let you keep your birds. You can even sell 'em. Now this is their official proposal. You can continue to raise and sell the birds, but the profits will be turned over to the prison welfare fund, and you will receive a salary in the form of a share of the profits. I consider that quite a generous offer under the circumstances. Frankly, it's more than I would have offered, had I the authority.
Albert Comstock: Well, Stroud?
Robert Stroud: Let me see if I understand you. You're proposing that the United States government go into the canary-bird business. That's against private enterprise. You sound like a Bolshevik, Harvey.
Albert Comstock: You have no legal right to raise canaries at all.
Robert Stroud: I know. Rule 60 of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Manual: "An inmate cannot be permitted to operate a business, no matter how legitimate, while in prison." That right?
Harvey Shoemaker: You quoted it correctly.
Robert Stroud: That's what I thought. That's why I'm confused. The rule says I can't have a business. You say I can, provided I give you the profits. It's reinventing regulations. It's not like you.
Albert Comstock: Mr. Shoemaker came all the way from Washington to try to work out a plan so you can keep your blasted birds.
Robert Stroud: Don't con an old con, Warden. He came because of public opinion, and you know it. 50,000 signatures on a petition. Congressmen jumping all over MacLeod's back. I think I got you over a barrel, Harvey.
Harvey Shoemaker: Is that you last word?
Robert Stroud: I could use more room. For my birds.
