Fight for freedom

Theron 2022-04-11 08:01:01

Ignoring the location and background of the whole plot, "Rise of the Rod" is a universal truth that can be applied everywhere - where there is oppression, there is resistance. And the translated name of Wenxuanxuan is even more reminiscent of a series of peasant uprisings such as Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.

However, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had great ambitions when he was still working in the fields, and he sighed in a gloomy sigh: Yan Que knows the ambition of Honghu! And seize the opportunity to have a vigorous fight with the imperial power. As for Patrick in South Africa, he is just an ordinary black man with a warm and happy family, a beautiful wife, an innocent daughter, a mistress and an illegitimate son. Under the apartheid system in South Africa, living peacefully and peacefully, despite the humiliation from time to time, is only submissive. However, when the black South African "freedom fighters" white people called "terrorists" attacked the power plant, Patrick was indiscriminately arrested and tortured, and his wife was also tortured. An angry Patrick is disappointed with reality, which stimulates his inner fighting spirit. From an ordinary man, he turned into a fighter for freedom.

The narrative of the whole film is smooth, and the African black music is the magic touch of this film. Sometimes exciting, sometimes cheerful, sometimes long. However, even the song at the time of the burial is not sad or sad, just distant and peaceful, like a silent flowing river, calm on the surface, but turbulent inside. Like the unyielding soul of the African people.

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Extended Reading
  • Onie 2022-04-12 09:01:11

    Compared to seeing numb anti-Japanese films, this film even gave me an urge to go to Africa, but a different civilization gave me such a shock. The most infectious thing in the film is the full and rhythmic African songs, which are really uplifting. The biggest weakening of the political element of this film is very worth watching.

  • Janelle 2022-04-11 08:01:01

    Saw Tim Robbins so check it out. With racial discrimination as the central argument, satirizing the inhumane rule of white people over the South African people, the plot should be more violent.

Catch a Fire quotes

  • Obadi: Are you ready to die!

    Rebels: Yes, commander!

  • Patrick Chamusso: My children, when they speak if their father, they will say he was a man who stood up for what was right, a man who said he must do something now. What will your children say about you?