Extended Reading
  • Joannie 2021-12-13 08:01:08

    Ordinary people challenge power-save the hurricane (you have saved me)

    Norman Jewison-The Hurricane This
    film tells a famous unjust case in American history. The black boxer was accused of murder and imprisoned for nearly 20 years.
    The United States is terrific. It can be rehabilitated after 20 years of injustice. It would have been killed in China. Even if it is not...

  • Victoria 2021-12-13 08:01:08

    Th Hurricane (1999)

    I accidentally saw The Hurricane (1999) biographical film. The protagonist is Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937-; played by Denzel Washington). He is a middleweight boxer, but he is more famous. Into a shooting in 1966. The whole film is based on his autobiography The Sixteenth Round, describing how...

  • Roel 2022-04-21 09:02:11

    On a personal level, Reuben was falsely accused of being imprisoned, he did not give up his pursuit of freedom, and he did not settle for an unfair fate. The struggle for status, and Reuben's personal regaining of freedom is the progress of society, and it is a symbolic event of black people's struggle for rights; as far as the law is concerned, the final judgment of the federal court upholds the justice of the law and defends the dignity of the law; for the country In terms of history, this is a kind of historical progress, respecting individual people, repairing racial rifts as much as possible, and maintaining the stability and unity of the country.

  • Marcelle 2022-03-23 09:01:57

    My eyes were wet several times, and I remembered the feeling of watching Shawshank Redemption. Reuben's character building is more moving than the final appeal, and while the structure is a little off balance, I like the way it's handled. A boxer went to prison and found the power of words, and the words in correspondence are first-class. The dialogue is worth chewing over and over again, especially since it was shut down and refused to wear a prison uniform for a while.

The Hurricane quotes

  • Lesra: [to Rubin] Dear Mr. Carter, I read your book.

  • Lesra: [to Rubin] I would like to come and visit you if that would be alright.