"Harriet" is full of romance. There are no detailed shots of slave whipping and other cruel punishments in the film
. Only short-term scars and implied cruelty can give the audience a glimpse of the terrible suffering suffered by the slaves
; the film will focus more on the terrible suffering suffered by the slaves . It is refreshing in terms of the efforts the slaves have made to fight for freedom
. However, "Harriet" is not enough to be a good film. The film’s narrative structure is formulaic, the dialogue is clichéd, and the villain character is also very facial. At the same time, the heroine Harriet is surrounded by the protagonist’s halo, making the audience unable to understand Her thoughts and feelings empathize, and she can't really understand that deep history through the film. Fortunately, the heroine Cynthia Erivo made this role more three-dimensional, brilliantly interpreting the character's strength, pain and fragility
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Harriet evaluation action
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Extended Reading
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Eliza Brodess: I'm suffocating in this place. It's like a prison where I'm awaiting my execution, surrounded by hostile, black-faced guards.
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Harriet: [to Gideon, at gunpoint] You'll die right here. On a frozen, blood-soaked battlefield, the moans of a generation of young men in your ears, dying in agony around you, for a lost cause. For a vile and wicked idea! For the sin of slavery! Can you hear them? God don't mean people to own people, Gideon! Our time is near!