If submission leads to protection, Carter can do without the protection. If favors are returned by cigarettes, Carter doesn't smoke. He resists being swept up in the prison system by rejecting what sociologists have called "the small reward system" of total institutions. But after reading some inspirational books he develops his mind as well, and in practical ways. At first he concentrates on turning his body into an instrument of power. And the writers have his character develop too. Denzel Washington is pretty good at projecting pent-up anger and defiance. Nobody really has much to do as far as acting is concerned. We can't help being relieved when Carter is ultimately released, and can't help thinking somewhere in the back of our minds about those twenty years of imprisonment. During one of his trials, the prosecution refers to his having been convicted by "a jury of his peers" and Jewison gives us a long shot of the all-white jury, in case we might otherwise miss the point. It's an imperfect machine, and Carter suffered abominably for every fourteen-year-old black kid who ever decorated a brick wall with graffiti from a can of spray paint. Not to diminish the heinous effects of racism (or, more generally, prejudice) in our justice system. As a kid, Hurricane stabs a middle-aged white guy only to save his chum from an oily child molester. Yet the writers and the director throw away any chance to turn the film into something other than a condemnation of racism and the white people infected by it. It would have been so EASY to give the heavy a family and a dog or at least a social context - rising black crime in the cities of the 1960s and the panic associated with it. Imagine, instead of Detective Della Pesci, Inspector Javert of "Les Miserables," another police officer who simply cannot give up his persecution and yet is recognizably human rather than another familiar stereotype. #HURRICANE HEIST TORRENT MOVIE#Now, imagine that the movie gives him edge and adds other dimensions. The only reason he's in the movie is to snarl, threaten, make foul racist remarks, chivvy Carter, and see to it that he spends as much time in the slams as possible. Dan Hedaya, for instance, is Paterson, New Jersey's Detective Della Pesci, the personification of racist-motivated darkness. Almost all the frissons that might have made this more than a simple tale of moral strength and fortitude have been left out or shaped to fit a familiar mold. In fact, it's dumbed down to a point beyond which a lack of comprehension would be attributed to pathology. His conviction, upheld in a second trial, before he is finally released by a federal court, is practically an operational definition of the term "railroaded." Rubin "Hurricane" Carter would still be in Trenton State Prison, a hell hole if there ever was one, if it hadn't been for the altruistic efforts of three adults and one adolescent member of a Canadian commune, who became amateur sleuths by accident. This is the story of a world-famous boxer unjustly imprisoned for more than two decades for felony murders he did not commit. Reviewed by rmax304823 5 / 10 Menace 2 Society. However, what Hurricane and his friends learn is that this fight puts them against a racist establishment that profited from this travesty and have no intention of seeing it reversed. This changes when an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read his book and are convinced of his innocence enough to work for his exoneration. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms. This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title.
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