Watched The Great Debaters, Brokeback Mountain, A Lot Like Love ,and Be Kind Rewind yesterday (thanks to The Rainman who brought a 500 GB external HDD loaded with movies, software, sitcoms, and songs ).
The Great Debaters , surely counts in one of the most inspirational movies ever churned out in Hollywood. Well, Denzel Washington does spell "good cinema" !
My favourite quotes from the movie.....
P.S. My previous venture to watch Brokeback Mountain had to be aborted at the INOX Ticket Counter because of a totally freaked out neighbour and childhood buddy ( a captain in the army )who after having read the description of the movie nudged me out of the area and then screamed his lung out saying " OHHH NOOOO !!! Under no circumstances am I going in there with you girls( me and my sis ) to watch THIS movie "...and then later, as a reaction to the wide grin on my face, added , " Neither am I going to watch this movie with my male friends or alone "
LOL
so we watched something else !
The Great Debaters , surely counts in one of the most inspirational movies ever churned out in Hollywood. Well, Denzel Washington does spell "good cinema" !
My favourite quotes from the movie.....
James Farmer Jr.: In Texas they lynch Negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes and, worse, the shame. What was this Negro's crime that he should be hung without trial in a dark forest filled with fog. Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a Negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who are we to just lie there and do nothing. No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing. Just left us wondering, "Why?" My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow south. Not when Negroes are denied housing. Turned away from schools, hospitals. And not when we are lynched. St Augustine said, "An unjust law in 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 latter.
Samantha: ... the time for justice, the time for freedom, and the time for equality is always, is always right now!
P.S. My previous venture to watch Brokeback Mountain had to be aborted at the INOX Ticket Counter because of a totally freaked out neighbour and childhood buddy ( a captain in the army )who after having read the description of the movie nudged me out of the area and then screamed his lung out saying " OHHH NOOOO !!! Under no circumstances am I going in there with you girls( me and my sis ) to watch THIS movie "...and then later, as a reaction to the wide grin on my face, added , " Neither am I going to watch this movie with my male friends or alone "
LOL
so we watched something else !
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