had only heard of Zola before, but I knew very little about this famous French writer. The film raised my interest in seeing his work, so I have to say that the film was very successful.
Perhaps it is not so appropriate to use Zola Biography as the name of the movie. The film mainly outlines four life fragments of Zola: the life of a wandering artist with Cezanne, the source of inspiration for the book "Nana", the Dreyfus incident and the death of Zola. A large part of it depicts what happened to him when he vindicated an injustice case for Officer Drey Fox. Justice and truth are the main thrust of the movie, and Zola is just a carrier.
Zola is a defender of truth. He uses the sharpest bayonet to awaken people’s sleeping conscience. Although France was once in darkness, there are such defenders of justice who were born in sorrow and died in peace, and there are batch after batch full of criticism. The successor of thought, the light is just around the corner. This scene of the court speech is impressive. Zola's power lies not only in his thoughts, but also in his actions. In a free and democratic country, truth and justice are indispensable, although occasionally it may be late.
I like this line in the film: Sometimes cowardice is also a kind of courage.
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