If you look at the mainland today, there are Taiwanese people who can speak well.
I remember that the team leader of Fudan University said in the book that recorded the event that the debate competition has nothing to do with truth, it is a game of language intelligence.
Instead, in 1935, Tolson, a spicy professor at Wiley College in Texas, USA, would say: How could it be?
In the film, the black team leader repeatedly taught his four players: Who is the referee? --God. Because he decides to win or lose, not my opponent; who is the opponent? --does not exist. Because he just questioned my voice of truth.
For Denzel Washington (played by Professor Tolson, but also the director of this film), I think these lines are not to create a swollen face and make a fat man, but his concern about the use of language. The view held by the sharp weapon is humility under the truth.
Because of these extraordinary lines, I guess the film will have a glorious ending. After all, during the apartheid period of the 1930s, blacks vs. whites, unknown schools vs. prestigious schools, the lynching of blacks was in It happened outside the car they went to the event, and the plot should not be too outrageous.
But the ending was beyond my expectations, and even more unexpected was the life of the characters played at the end of the film, which made me realize that this was what happened. Several debaters in the film later became priests, female lawyers, and leaders of the civil rights movement, all of which have symbolic significance in the history of the last century. A language without a sword is ultimately not just a language, but a more fulfilling force than the barrel of a gun. Because it has to do with truth.
Damn! I got it!
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