TRUTH OF THE HURRICANE?
Just finished watching 'The Hurricane' on vcd (digged out from my drawer), where Denzel Washingston scooped the Best Actor award in Golden Globe a couple of years back. Was it a hidden truth where racial prejudice occurred, or did Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter with his said 'accomplice' planned the whole murder scene uncleanly? Fact or fiction?
As we all know, the 60's was a crucial period in the U.S, where the government was accepting the Black Americans into the community. Thus, racial riots and racial prejudice were some of the issues raised back then where the Blacks were beatened up brutally by the police and looked upon as outcast of society.
Rubin Carter was 11 years old when he was first convicted having caused grievous hurt to the mayor in Paterson, NJ during his childhood days. After spending 8 yrs in Boys Home, he escaped and join the army. Having earned his name as 'the Hurricane', he won titles after titles in the boxing arena before tragedy struck. One that he would remember vividly or 'clearly' all his life.
He then spent 20 yrs in prison, had two appeals rejected by the state court before he was given another chance in the federal jurisdiction of the U.S court law to present his case with new evidence. With the help of friends he made from Canada, who they believed strongly that he was innocent, he was set free by justice at the age of 50 yrs old.
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Very intriguing film which keeps you thinkin . Now i'm tryin to be subjective and neutral on the way i depict this film. On one hand, director Jewison (if got his surname right) portrayed Rubin Carter as a man full of hatred and self-belief. The direction the film was apparent; a clear 'Innocent' man of whom had wrongly accused by the alleged racism shown by the police. Unmistakenly, the detective in the film was the same person where Carter got himself into trouble with. Those of you who have watched it, in your clear conscious, your leaded to say that 'This man is innocent!'.
There are reasons to believe too that Carter is. These includes (as shown in the film) his love for his family (yea, darn loving...), the self-belief he holds to, as well as a self-proclaimed fighting machine he is against uncertainties.
I'm thinking (off the record), that the detective in the film had hired 2 other Blackmen to kill those people in the bar (3 of them whom all are White) and 'pinpoint' it to Carter and the guy beside him. I mean come on, the car which the assailants drove off, the clothes they wore ('''similar''' to the one's where Carter and his accomplice wore - the film did not even show it) are identical. I feel, everything was planned nicely. The detective knows when Carter was going to leave the bar he partied and etc.
Mind you, that poor chap who was with him that night before the murder happened was a 20 yr-old man who asked Carter himself whether he could have the privelege to drive 'The Hurricane' home.
Now here is the part you don't want to hear. After finishin the film, i went to sites that talked and discussed on the real case versus the one that was shown in the cinema. Two huge opposing views and some of the arguments varied.
I have to end this entry or it's never gonna end. My conclusion to this, is that Carter was set-up, and i may be very wrong. To those reading this, i meant no harm but just views that i feel i should expressed myself complementin the fact i have watched the fillm. This whole thing is a set-up.
I wasn't there in the 60's and i don't know much on who the real 'Hurricane' is but i can dare say, it is because of alleged racism and hatred from a white detective that led to this whole thing. Carter may or may not be innocent but, he holds firmly to this believe in justice and crimes he did not commit. It may also be a set-up, as i mentioned earlier, where the word 'bribery' may come into picture.
The freakin overall rating for this film? Three and a half popcorns out of Five. And a word of advice, never watched a vcd that is 3hrs at 4am in the morning. Harhaa...right....
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