pride and Prejudice

Lessie 2022-03-22 09:01:13

I knew about this movie a long time ago, and I always wanted to read the book first before watching the movie. But in the end I couldn't help but watch the movie first, because I don't have a paper book now.
After watching the movie, there are really many things I want to talk about.
I named the title of my film review Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Austen will definitely not mind, I think. This is definitely a movie worth watching again, and of course the book is the same, even though I haven't watched it yet.
The climax of course belongs to the second half, so let's start with the court debate. But the foreshadowing in front is so indispensable. Racial discrimination is still an unstoppable problem in the United States. It can also be said to be prejudice. I want to say that the arrogant white man allows him to fully express his self-perceived racial superiority, and then creates a prejudice that despises black life.
Akasi's closing speech was so gentle and rational, so full of tension and appeal, but it was a pity that he still couldn't soften the stone heart of his compatriots that had not been covered for nearly a century. The white father sent a kind black man to the unfair court with a poverty and ignorant racial discrimination, a drunk who beat his daughter, his morality was full of paralyzing alcohol, dangerous and evil; the white man A woman, just as black people feel sorry for her, she relies on her own will to place love on a black person. Crossing this gap I wonder if she has such beautiful expectations, but in the end she turns love into A sharp knife was inserted into the good Tom's chest without any hesitation, and was buried in the darkness with the light in his life. The jury, a group of executioners dressed in gentlemen's cloak, ignored the justice of the law and the moral standards of humanity because they held the weapon of the power of life and death, and finally sent Tom to death.
When one person gives goodness, the other person thinks that a sharp weapon bites back. How incorrigible this society is. In the end, the white father was stopped by Boer and killed for attacking the child. The mayor deserved this most of his sin, and I was not much relieved. But Bull, the mysterious character that Scott and Jim always explore in their lives, gave me a feeling that we still have the feeling of being saved.
This world will not become so dark, it will get better and better!

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To Kill a Mockingbird quotes

  • Tom Robinson: I can't use my left hand at all. I got it caught in a cotton gin when I was twelve years old. All my muscles were tore loose.

  • [testifying]

    Tom Robinson: Well, I said I best be goin', I couldn't do nothin' for her, an' she said, oh, yes I could. An' I asked her what, and she said to jus' step on the chair yonder an' git that box down from on top of the chifforobe. So I done like she told me, and I was reachin' when the next thing I know she... grabbed me aroun' the legs.

    [a murmur erupts in the courthouse]

    Tom Robinson: She scared me so bad I hopped down an' turned the chair over. That was the only thing, only furniture 'sturbed in the room, Mr. Finch, I swear, when I left it... Mr. Finch, I got down off the chair, and I turned around an' she sorta jumped on me. She hugged me aroun' the waist. She reached up an' kissed me on the face. She said she'd never kissed a grown man before an' she might as well kiss me. She says for me to kiss her back.

    [Tom shakes his head, re-living the ordeal with his eyes half-closed]

    Tom Robinson: And I said, Miss Mayella, let me outta here, an' I tried to run. Mr. Ewell cussed at her from the window and said he's gonna kill her.