Who is the judge? Who is the judge?
- The judge is God.
- Why is he God? Why is God? - Because he decides who
wins or loses not my opponent. Who is your opponent? Who is your opponent? - He doesn't exist. - Why does he not exist? Why doesn't he exist? -Because he is a mute distant voice the truth that I speak.- Speak the truth! Speakthe truth! The lines are the invincible debate manifesto of the Wiley College debate team. In the movie, when Tolson was training the keynote speech scene where the opponent of the debate team did not exist, the four debaters all held foreign objects in their mouths for speech training. Perhaps, when we say the subject, we are often restrained and pun intended. That is to say, when we speak, we will not fully let go of the words, but we will be restrained. What is contained in the mouth may represent that the words have puns and deep meanings in addition to the surface. This may be Debate is the greatness and mystery of speech.
The film itself is not only a work of passion, but also a work of greatness and ambition.
The famous poet Tolson, starring Denzel Washington, is not only a poet, but also an elegant leader. He educates Lowe from rough courage training to virtuousness and to retrieve the lost rational mind: Keep the body, take the mind. Not just what we want.
Speak the truth. Words are swords. Speaking the truth, words are like swords and halberds, is the most passionate and great part of the film.
When Little Farmer witnessed the riot at the Tolson rally, when he was silent in front of his father and could not tell the truth after returning home, when faced with the accusations of the doctor's father, Little Farmer's counterattack was also very strong. He wrestled by citing the humiliating facts of his father's involvement in black injustice. "I didn't do anything wrong, why should I apologize? Do you apologize like you did to the farmer who raised pigs?"
At the end of the film, when debating "Civil disobedience is more powerful than just war" in the Harvard debate In the crucial final argument, Mo once again used the same method as refuting his father, and made the strongest counterattack with his opponent with the black lynching and burning incident he experienced. Speak the truth, and let the words have the power of the sword.
However, this is just the debate itself. One more level, and that is the legend that the film is adapted from a true story. In addition to Lowe being a fictional character, Tolson, Little Farmer, and Samantha not only maintained a ten-year undefeated record on the debate team, but each of them achieved their own ideal heights. Seven years after the Harvard debate, in 1942, James Farmer Jr. created the Congress for Racial Equality and became the leader of the civil rights movement. In 1961, Samantha Bucco became a lawyer. Melville Tolson became a world-famous poet. He went on to work with the Southern Texas Farmers' Union, which by the end of 1936 had 31,000 members in seven states. For 10 consecutive years, the Wiley College debate team has remained undefeated.
----Who is your opponent?
---The opponent does not exist.
The truth behind the debate is that the themes and truths they defended and debated were truly reflected in the facts, so that it could speak and prove the true power of words themselves like swords and swords.
Dr. James Sr. was blackmailed by a white farmer at a picnic in the suburbs and suffered humiliation under the eyes of his son Farmer Jr. But in the scene where Tolson is rescued by organizing a nonviolent and orderly resistance, his Gandhi-like strategy of nonviolence ultimately wins him back strength and dignity. Here, it is also very different from the scenes in the movie "Crash" in which black people are humiliated by racial discrimination.
The most elegant and heated debate scene: Samantha's debate about black people should be allowed to study at state universities, and the end-credits scene where Farmer Jr. debates "civil disobedience is more powerful than just war" at Harvard University-- ----
St.
Augustine said:
"An unjust law is no law at all."
Which means
I have a right, even a duty to resist.
With violence or civil disobedience...
You should pray I choose the later.
"An unjust law cannot be called a law at all"
which means I have a right, even a duty, to resist
Is it violence? Or with civil disobedience?
You should pray, I chose the latter.
This last, sonorous statement, was made by enumerating the humiliating fact that they had witnessed the lynching of a black man. The debate team not only defeated the Harvard school team in the words themselves, but the deeper meaning is that the debaters such as Little Farmer devoted their lives to fighting for the cause of racial equality for blacks, and achieved the final victory for truly winning the dignity of blacks. . Words triumph not only in words themselves, but also in deeds and fulfilled.
The film not only has strength and passion, but also poetry and tenderness. The beauty of its words makes people appreciate the eloquent and sonorous momentum and style of the English language; it makes people appreciate the eloquence and eloquence of the debater's speech, and also appreciate the To the outstanding looks of black actors.
I am------the darker brother. I am a black brother------
I live, and I eat well, and I grow strong
. they'll see how beautiful I am.
How beautiful I am. Black brother, how beautiful.
This kind of beauty is seen in Denzel Washington's pipe-biting attitude, but also in the quiet back at the end of the film when he turned around and left alone.
Debate is blood war, it's combat.
Your weapons are words. Your words are your weapons.
One of the legends is Melville Tolson, the most accomplished poet in the United States, so there are beautiful lines in the movie:
Beauty----
I heard the Old Man say
all that is beautiful drifts away...like the waters.
About beauty:
I heard very old people say that
beauty drifts away like water
History----
History is a nightmare from I'm trying to awake.
” History is a nightmare, I've always wanted to wake up" Self-pity----
I never saw wild things sorry for itself. "I never saw wild things sorry for itself." Hating you shall be a game.. .played with cool hands. Memory willlay it hands...upon your brest. And you will understand my hatered. Where did it come from? Passionate and inspirational sonorous words: what do we do here? We do we have to do,
so we can do we want to do.
What do you have to do right now?
What are we doing?
We have to do what we have to do
In order to do what we want to
do What do you have to do now?
When I was a child I
speak as a child.
I understood as a child.
I thought as a child.
But when I became a man
I put away all childhood things . Think like a child Think like a child When I grow up I put away all childish behaviors We must impress of our young people. That there will be difficulties that they faced. They must defeat them. They must do what thay have to do... ...in order to do what they want to do.
Education is the only way out.
The way out of ignorance!
The way out of darkness Into the glorious light.
We have to impress our younger generation and
tell them that there are many difficulties ahead and
they have to overcome
them and they have to do what they have to do
In order to do what I want to do,
education is the only way out
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