The Hurricane's Importance
4. Evaluate this movie. What qualities does it have that make if effective or ineffective for you as a viewer? Give specific examples from the movie to support your reasons for your evaluation.The Hurricane has proved itself as an effective movie for all people including me as a viewer through its simple portrayal of life's balance of good and evil. The choice of actors as characters, an internal battle and ability to relate show the on going war between the two extremes embodied in a movie.The Hurricane's story begins as three white patrons in a predominately white section of New Jersey are murdered in a bar during the tumultuous growing pains of the 60's. Rueben "Hurricane" Carter was in the prime of his boxing career. He was in simple words a bad, bad man in the ring. He had fought his way back from an uncertain childhood and an abusive period in the State of New Jersey's penal institutions for young men. Beset upon by a racist police officer intent on hanging him out to dry, Rueben had overcome these obstacles and many more to become an internationally known boxer. And in a moment, all his success and all of his achievements would be stolen by a system bent on prejudice and fueled
Everyone is also seen as either an angel or a monster. Imprisoned for a crime they clearly could not have committed. The battle between good and evil is conveyed through the actors chosen as characters. To identify with their triumphs, we must first feel they're suffering. Many started protests and helped in the investigation but it was the three Canadians and Lesra who made the difference. Carter sits in solitary confinement for hours just talking to himself playing out the battle in his head. These impulses and the choices all of us make every day of whether to pursue our loftiest goals or to give up. Within himself Carter had a monster who appeared to him in solitary confinement. The youngest of children and the simplest of people who are brought up in a society bred to recognize the good and bad of situations can see the evident battle of the Hurricane. This film also brings up the internal struggle found with in all of us and in our every day choices. Lesra Martin found Reuben's book at a used book sale held by a library in Toronto, Canada. Carter's ability to love and trust again seems to be the one feeling everyone can relate to and understand. The Canadian Activists and Lesra as well as the Hurricane himself and the good side of the war. Carter has magnified this struggle in whether to do the right or wrong thing.
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