The Birdkeeper of Alcatraz movie review

Lamar 2022-06-21 18:08:46

book, medicine, microscope, typewriter, no birds, no business, corruption, bribery, stupidity, sadism

Groundhog Day + The Shawshank Redemption

This can't happen in a Chinese prison

No freedom is too scary to be able to die in a hurry

The flightless bird reminds me of the old me

A previous jailbreak tool was lost

Rehabilitation? Do you know what the word means, the unabridged version of Webster's International Dictionary says it comes from the Latin root Habilis, which is defined as: to restore dignity.

Have you considered that part of your job is giving a person the dignity he once had?

Your only interest is how he behaves.

You said it to me once a long time ago, and I never forget: "You should behave as we want". For 35 years, you didn't back down an inch from your position, and you wanted your prisoners to dance outside the door like marionettes, all in compliance with the mandatory values ​​you established, in your requirements for obedience, for behavior. The norm, and even your sense of morality, Harvey, that's why you failed, you and your entire science of prison management failed, because you stole from prisoners the most important thing in their lives-- their personalities. After going out they are lost, like robots, living a step-by-step life, but have a deep, deep hatred in their hearts for what you have imposed on them, and once they have a chance to take revenge on society, they won't let it go. The result? More than half returned to prison.

Now that this is all written into my book, I suggest you read it, read it carefully and thoroughly.

For Strauss, the microscope was the beacon he had been waiting for

Lights the way to a wondrous and precise study of scientific truth

His subjects: birds His tools: curiosity, dedication, the guts of boating along the river

He made great strides, designing readings in his research to approximate the content of a university medical course

Cytology, Morphology, Biochemistry,

Now Stroud thinks he's good enough to start a new project

This is what he has long dreamed of

Complete and reliable research on bird diseases

He has found cures for some of his ailments

He can hardly read the names of those diseases

like septicaemia aspergillus diphtheria cholera

He even found a cure for bird paralysis

Thus saving the lives of thousands of chicks on poultry farms

The title of his book is Stroud Digest of Bird Diseases

The content of this book is beyond doubt

This old prisoner is the world's top authority in this field

This book took seven years to write

Not only that, he is very dedicated

He spent more than 3000 hours beside his microscope

Hundreds of diagrams created for over 5000 organizational structures

He has one of the best slideshow collections of living birds

Knows more about anatomical pathology than any other living person

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Extended Reading

Birdman of Alcatraz quotes

  • Robert Stroud: Why did you come 2,000 miles for nothing? Just to see me once a month?

    Stella Johnson: I came because I'm your wife, that's why. Bob, the only life I got is you.

    Robert Stroud: Then you've got a damned poor future, old girl. I'm never gonna get outta here.

    Stella Johnson: I could get a job in a factory. I could write letters every day. It would be like old times.

    Robert Stroud: You'd wither away and die waiting. Forget it, Stell. It's the end of the line.

    Robert Stroud: Please, Bob.

    Robert Stroud: Now, listen to me. Listen carefully. You fought your heart out for me. You fought your heart out for me, but the sun's gone down. And don't look for it to rise again. I want you to pretend that I'm a dead man. I want you to pretend... that you're standin' on my grave.

  • Harvey Shoemaker: Bob... I've been sent here as a delegate of the Bureau to make you an offer.

    Robert Stroud: That's what I've been waiting for.

    Harvey Shoemaker: Now the bureau is willing to let you keep your birds. You can even sell 'em. Now this is their official proposal. You can continue to raise and sell the birds, but the profits will be turned over to the prison welfare fund, and you will receive a salary in the form of a share of the profits. I consider that quite a generous offer under the circumstances. Frankly, it's more than I would have offered, had I the authority.

    Albert Comstock: Well, Stroud?

    Robert Stroud: Let me see if I understand you. You're proposing that the United States government go into the canary-bird business. That's against private enterprise. You sound like a Bolshevik, Harvey.

    Albert Comstock: You have no legal right to raise canaries at all.

    Robert Stroud: I know. Rule 60 of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Manual: "An inmate cannot be permitted to operate a business, no matter how legitimate, while in prison." That right?

    Harvey Shoemaker: You quoted it correctly.

    Robert Stroud: That's what I thought. That's why I'm confused. The rule says I can't have a business. You say I can, provided I give you the profits. It's reinventing regulations. It's not like you.

    Albert Comstock: Mr. Shoemaker came all the way from Washington to try to work out a plan so you can keep your blasted birds.

    Robert Stroud: Don't con an old con, Warden. He came because of public opinion, and you know it. 50,000 signatures on a petition. Congressmen jumping all over MacLeod's back. I think I got you over a barrel, Harvey.

    Harvey Shoemaker: Is that you last word?

    Robert Stroud: I could use more room. For my birds.