Norman Jewison’s story of Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter gives us his take on the corrupt society during the time of The Black Civil Rights Movement. The overarching theme of this film is imprisonment, this can be broken down into the two main ideas willpower and internal conflict. Throughout the film the many pieces of dialogue, camera shots, and repeated shots or sequences are used to reinforce the overarching theme, imprisonment. These are shown in the “Hole Scene” where Rubin Carter is locked in a cage for ninety days without seeing the light of day. It begins when Rubin Carter is first brought into prison, the director uses these language features to allow the audience to see the ideas on a deeper level and to really connect with the character
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He is also shown at the same angle as the warden giving the audience the idea that they are equal. This is reinforced by the way Rubin refuses to give the warden what he wants and is able to dress as an innocent man in a facility of guilty men. “Well you can just take me on back down to the hole”. While Rubin is down in the “hole” the lighting the director shows the audience is really dark and dull. This correlates to what Rubin is experiencing during this ‘dark’ time in his life. Throughout this scene the majority of shots are high angle showing the audience that Rubin is now below that of other people. The change that occurs during this scene of Rubens confidence is very slight. He walks in equal and after everything he is put through he walks out of the “hole” still believing he is just as equal. While he spends this time in prison he is a completely innocent man he was only placed in jail because of his skin colour. In the world we live in the actions of a person have consequences but when you are giving these consequences to someone who did not do these said actions you are stripping them of their basic human rights. This can be related to schools where rules have been set in place, if someone breaks these rules they are punished. You are not punished for something you didn’t do so why should it be like this in the justice
He is also shown at the same angle as the warden giving the audience the idea that they are equal. This is reinforced by the way Rubin refuses to give the warden what he wants and is able to dress as an innocent man in a facility of guilty men. “Well you can just take me on back down to the hole”. While Rubin is down in the “hole” the lighting the director shows the audience is really dark and dull. This correlates to what Rubin is experiencing during this ‘dark’ time in his life. Throughout this scene the majority of shots are high angle showing the audience that Rubin is now below that of other people. The change that occurs during this scene of Rubens confidence is very slight. He walks in equal and after everything he is put through he walks out of the “hole” still believing he is just as equal. While he spends this time in prison he is a completely innocent man he was only placed in jail because of his skin colour. In the world we live in the actions of a person have consequences but when you are giving these consequences to someone who did not do these said actions you are stripping them of their basic human rights. This can be related to schools where rules have been set in place, if someone breaks these rules they are punished. You are not punished for something you didn’t do so why should it be like this in the justice