Speaking of jailbreaking, movies such as "Shawshank's Redemption", "Prison in the Air", "Escape the Golden Cicada" and so on may appear in everyone's mind. The "Escape from Pretoria" we are going to talk about today is also a movie about jailbreak-related topics.
Its starring role is the familiar Daniel Radcliffe, who is also the actor of Harry Potter. At first, the editor's impression of him was still that of the immature "savior", but after watching this movie, he was no longer that immature child.
In 1978, the male protagonist Tim and his friend Stephen were sentenced to imprisonment for the bombing, and their prison was the Pretoria White Men’s Prison . In prisons, you are not allowed to bring pens, radios, newspapers, or to talk about politics. Once you enter here, you can only be isolated from the world. For ordinary prisoners, they may only need to serve their sentences and wait for the day they are released, but for the male protagonist In terms of speaking, he urgently wants to go out, because outside, there are missions that he needs to accomplish, struggles that he needs to participate in, and family members he cares about.
And there is only one way to meet his needs-escape from prison.
Just as passionate as he devoted himself to the anti-apartheid movement, the idea of jailbreaking was just a big stone on the road of revolution for the male protagonist. He only needed to spend time and energy to capture it. . This never-say-failure spirit supported the male protagonist to start his escape plan. But who of the people in prison doesn't want to escape? So many of the first jailbreaks, and which one was successful?
All the obvious methods have been tried by the predecessors themselves, and they are also afraid of being beaten. Compared with the risk of doubling the sentence and even the risk of death, they have chosen to bow their heads to the evil forces. Be a well-behaved rabbit with carrots .
The male protagonist who was not scared back, every night and night, was thinking about how to escape, until he realized that if he wanted to escape a locked room, he had to make a key that could open the door. .
If there is no material, it will be made of wood. As long as the design is reasonable, it will not break easily. This can be said to be a whimsical idea, and it still has the support of his peers, because it is better to seize this opportunity than to escape from prison, even if it sounds so ridiculous .
In order to make a foolproof wooden key, the male protagonist seized every opportunity to observe the key. At night, he drew the shape of the key in his mind over and over again. The drawings were drawn one after another. Finally, he succeeded. ! But when he opened the door, what appeared in front of him was not a corridor, but a thick white iron door...
Disappointment and frustration are pervading my heart, but he can open one door and then open another door, even countless doors. What he lacks the most and lacks the most is time. The male protagonist bit his spine and started a new key. The production .
The road was full of thrills, when the key fell on the corridor, and the male protagonist was sweating profusely to find the key; when the key was tried, the wood was broken in the keyhole and could not be pulled out; the prison guard raided the room and turned out a pile of wood When the key is broken...
There are too many "death moments", but the male protagonist has survived, not by luck, but by his desire for freedom. Because of the desire for freedom, I can stick to my heart, climbing on the cliff step by step, and because of my desire for freedom, I can take the risk and hang on the edge of the fall time and time again .
In this nearly two-hour period, we followed the male protagonist, from making a key to making countless keys, watching him open a door, and the key bag in his hand was thick and rolled. Circle after circle , when we substitute ourselves for him, we will be nervous for him, afraid for him, happy for him, and cry for him.
This movie created the background of racial discrimination, but used nearly 99% of the images to describe the experience of a white man who successfully escaped from a group of white prisoners, as if this racial discrimination was a redundant setting. But the success of a revolution does not depend on things, but on people . The male protagonist joined the anti-apartheid movement in spite of the danger. It has never been a fake justice or a fake passion, and the process of being in prison and then escaped is a metaphor for this revolution .
Among this group of white prisoners, some were sentenced for anti-apartheidism. From their high morale at the beginning, to "We still have unity" later, they experienced failures and blows, and they became obedient rabbits . But the male protagonist is not. He is young and passionate, so he will not be frightened by death, because in his heart freedom is something more precious than life. Although freedom is something that is easy to obtain, he needs to help those who still lack it. People go to fight and fight for it.
Perhaps this is what this movie wants to tell. In the struggle, fresh blood is constantly added to wash out the clogged blood vessels. Some blood is gradually aging and stiff, but some blood can keep moving forward until it rushes away from the heavy decay. The door...
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