- He doesn't exist.
- Why doesn't it exist?
—Because that is only against my voice telling the truth.
The coach told them to practice in the open forest with a cork in their mouth. The scene is as beautiful as a painting. Repeated questions.
"Who is your opponent?" "It doesn't exist." "Why doesn't he exist?" "Because it just opposes my voice to tell the truth."
Until the end of the film, it was so shocking.
That paragraph was so handsome that I completely forgot about the next day's ideological and moral training exam. Just lying blankly in front of the screen, watching others have only one defeat in ten years. Incredibly handsome. Reality is legend. No matter how legendary it is, it can't compare to the blind pedaling of the goddess of fate. The so-called magic.
I am also a debater. Start with college. I also imagined that the legend of losing once in ten years was created by myself.
I forgot why I wanted to join the debate team. It's not a noble goal anyway - but I still like it, I like it very much. Of course, the waste of time later made many people quit, and some people withdrew gloriously because they delayed the good spring of their love. There are not many people who stick to it. We call it individual aspirations.
Every time I persevere until I am too lazy to persevere, I always ask myself such a question - "Hey, do you like to debate?"
There is suspicion of copying "Slam Dunk". But it's always that simple, go back to where you started, ask yourself why you started, and then everything will be fine and everything will be fine.
I have cried and laughed for it, I have recited arguments for it and received praise for being scolded, I have met a lot of friends, and I have gradually become better at theoretical attacks. So I really don't want to put it down again, after crying for it and laughing for it. Even if I stand as cannon fodder in that full debate, even if I am jealous of the newcomers, even if our souls quit, I have decided to stick to the last fortress.
——I have the confidence to take over this flag, and I have more courage to attack first...
Although I am a less powerful quartet. My progress is great because of a low starting point.
How to say, no one does not want to accept thunderous applause and the golden cup representing one word. So, turning yourself into a legend is the easiest way. Even if it is thousands of miles away from the characters in the movie.
Back to movies. The movie watching history is too short, the only movie about the debate I found. In fact, it is also told in two lines, one is the legend of one defeat in ten years they created, and the other is the tortuous road for black people to fight for their rights.
They joined the debate team, assembled under the name of the famous coach Professor Tolson.
And his father is the protagonist James Farmer, the first black doctor who went to college at the age of 14, and admires his teammate Samantha Buco. The only female teammate is hoping to become a lawyer and thus exercise his eloquence. They practiced by the lake, debated with their teachers, and argued with their friends about the use of materials.
So they finally ushered in their victory. The first is the impact of benefits on unemployment. The protagonist Henry Lowe took over what the coach wrote and stood on the stage eloquently: "Can you face those eyes with blood and tears?" There was thunderous applause from the field.
And then there's always the victory. Talk to a lot of black schools and keep winning. The coach said, you have a way to play against white schools, and that is to stay undefeated. Their number of victories keeps growing and is shockingly brilliant.
Among them, James Farmer was following his teachers to find their coaches attending an inexplicable meeting. In the middle of the night, the rally was somehow blocked by the police, as if the protagonists were black. The coach warned him not to speak out, and it was this incident that directly led to the subsequent detention of the coach for no reason.
They saw that black people were treated unequally. Their family was inexplicably forced to hand over a month's salary just for the immediate disaster. They saw a child hanged and had to lie down on the floor to hold back their humiliation and fear. They are torturing themselves, what is the significance of continuing the debate and winning all the way. What's the point of their debate being truthful when no one listens.
What the hell are they standing there for. Why debate.
These all turned into James Farmer's final statement.
He didn't speak fast, but his words were earth-shattering. "I saw a black man hanged. Did he kill someone or steal something? . What? ... I think you should be thankful that we used non-violent resistance."
The protagonist said in the debate at Harvard University. Everyone in the audience stood up and applauded.
There was no coaching, and there was even an argument before going on the court, but none of that mattered. The power of language is earth-shattering, simply because what I'm telling is the truth. You don't have the power and the right to shake.
"Who is your opponent?"
"He doesn't exist. He's just a voice against the truth I speak." The
protagonist becomes the most famous black equality leader before Martin Luther King, and the only female debater becomes The first women's human rights lawyer went to Alabama. These are all real people and events. They are all legends. The only apocryphal figure becomes a seminary graduate who becomes a priest. The coach continues to strive as an equal preacher.
Since then, the school has been in the field of debate, and has not met an opponent for ten years.
Speaking of "I have a dream" in the high school textbook, I remember it so vividly. What a famous speech that was.
And I have a dream. I dreamt one day...
I dream of a day when our children live in a country that judges them by their abilities, not the color of their skin.
I dream of a day when the voice of freedom will be heard from every corner of America!
...
with tears in my eyes at the end. The only impression I had of the African American movement at the time was the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the library that I read. The Civil War also began. Other than that I know nothing.
It turns out that every nation and every race has shed blood for freedom.
I still remember the repeated applause and cheers from the audience while listening to the actual live recording.
They are also just a group of ordinary American nationals who want freedom and equality.
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