The film reproduces the most glorious 2 years and 6 months of Jesse Owens' life, showing the black talented athlete struggling from ordinary to glory, but this is not an American personal struggle sports film.
The film describes the US Olympic Committee’s repeated compromises with the Nazis, including the process of replacing the two only Jewish athletes in the key men’s four-by-100-meter final at the Berlin Olympics. People can't help but sigh: Politics is compromise, and even the faster, higher and stronger Olympic spirit has to bow.
The film further described that after winning four Olympic gold medals, Jesse Owens still had to enter the hall from the waiter and his wife to attend a banquet celebrating his victory. This kind of ironic statement seems to be a rhetorical question: How big is the difference between racial discrimination in the United States under isolationism and Nazi Germany, fifty steps and one hundred steps?
The final subtitles of the film described the fact that Lang, who had no racial prejudice, and the German athlete who circled the field with Jesse Owens, died in the U.S. Army’s landing operation in Sicily, and the U.S. Olympic Committee compromised with the Nazis. The official finally served as the president of the US Olympic Committee in the 1950s and until his death in the 1970s.
What a cold fact it is, it is a permanent lie that competitive sports has nothing to do with politics. Looking at today’s Olympics again, Russian hackers have made 5 consecutive attempts. Will the modern Olympics become a sorrow of medicine jars or a sorority of asthma patients, ha ha.
"Everyone should enjoy the possibility of engaging in sports without any form of discrimination, and embody the Olympic spirit of mutual understanding, friendship, unity and fair competition." I hope this passage will never be forgotten.
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