The top sports movie in my heart appeared

Xzavier 2021-12-21 08:01:22

This film is the autobiography of the British flying man Li Airui. It tells about his running career when he won the Olympic championship. The film has double protagonists and a master runner from Cambridge. It broke the 700-year school record of Cambridge. The two competed against each other. But the two sides went to the game with different attitudes. This film won 4 Olympic awards in total, and the theme song has become the usual repertoire of the Olympics. Later, after Li Erui won the championship, he returned to Tianjin to continue his preaching. When the Japanese invaded China, he was imprisoned in a concentration camp. Churchill was the first to save him and exchange terms with the Japanese, but Li Erui refused. In 1945, he was the first to save him. Died in a Japanese concentration camp. This movie is full of human brilliance. It not only has religious beliefs, but also reflects on the Olympics and sportsmanship. Why did you participate in the Olympics? Is it for winning or for sportsmanship? It can even be extended to life, why are we fighting? There was a scene in the movie that almost made me cry. When he was participating in the Olympics, he shared with each contestant, blessing others, cheering for others, because he was good at 100 meters, and the preliminaries were Sunday and Sabbath, but he refused. Running on the Sabbath, he changed to 400 meters, which he was not good at, and the spirit of getting into battle easily and trying his best to run made him the Olympic champion. The epitaph after his death read "God, give me a chariot that breathes fire, I will feel your joy while running", which is where the name of the movie comes from.

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  • Yasmeen 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    OST is really beautiful! the power that holds us to the end comes within.

  • Chauncey 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    The title and soundtrack are indeed the biggest legacy the film has left to the world. The structure of the film is a bit too loose, and I feel that the contradictions and conflicts of the characters are not explained clearly enough. Whether it is the contradictions or the climax plot, I feel a little lack of effort now, and there is a feeling of joy and anger, which makes it difficult to watch with the film. The characters resonate. For example, Eric's belief, although the film intentionally created a conflict, but this conflict feels too weak to give more characterizations, it belongs to a hasty come and gone...

Chariots of Fire quotes

  • Reverend. J.D. Liddell: You can praise God by peeling a spud if you peel it to perfection. Don't compromise. Compromise is a language of the devil. Run in God's name and let the world stand back and in wonder.

  • Master of Trinity: ...name after name which I cannot read. And which we, who are older than you, cannot hear without emotion. Names which will be only names to you, the new college, but to us summon up face after face full of honesty and goodness, zeal and vigor.