Nightjohn Film Analysis

Throughout this year of Global Connections we have talked about the importance of laws and when it is okay for an individual to break laws. There are some laws that are there to protect everyone which keep the people safe and also give them a right to have a voice, but there are certain laws that do the opposite and this gives individuals the opportunity to rebel. An individual should violate the law when it is unreasonable towards people or it treats certain people unfairly while others are treated with protection/respect.
In semester one we had watched a movie called “Nightjohn” and it explained how people of different races were treated differently and how one person was able to go against the rules in order to become equal. During this movie blacks were seen different than whites, by making them slaves and segregating them from the others. Blacks …show more content…
During this time period the Catholic church had power over the people, this also meant that the church had power over the rules along with what was taught/learned. The churches taught that the planets orbit around the Earth since God would be in the middle of the Universe and God’s greatest creation (humans) would also be in the center. Some scientist though decided to challenge this theory and say that the sun was in the middle and the planets orbited around that. One individual named Galileo was able to prove that the church was wrong, in order to get his information out into the public, breaking laws and going against authority had to occur. In this situation laws were created to keep the Catholic church in power, but also to mentally harm the people with not giving them a voice or real learning opportunities. This is a situation where it was okay that an individual violated the law to ensure that people were learning the truth about our solar system and what we now know