Sunday, May 13, 2012
Glory Reflection
The movie "Glory" is a realistic portrayal of the experiences of the colored regiment during the civil war. To be exact, it actually surprised me with its realistic depictions of their daily lives, killing, and courage. With this I felt sympathy to those who put up with such rigorous training and experience some form of loss for what they believe is righteous. They persevered so much agony and the movie created that atmosphere well. During many selective scenes, the movie suggests of a series of common situations of volunteering, training, and war, like what is said to have happened. A major threat to the African Americans, I have learned, would most likely be racism. It has affected them very much throughout many scenes. For example, Trip get fired up when being discriminated against for his skin color when wanting to go with the white men to where the real action is happening. Rawlings on the other hand had to talk everyone out of it, to tell the experiences they were in for. They want to go to battle, they are ready to fight, and they are dignified rather than those of the whites.
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I agree that the biggest threat to the African-American Regiments was racism. However, some of the racism was not seemingly incorporated into the movie. I felt that there would be more racism towards the Africans than there was in the movie. However, that is my belief and can be outruled for I have not researched on racism during the Civil War.
ReplyDeleteI also believe that one of the harshest things an African soldier had to face was racism. Some of the colored soldiers like Trip see this as more motivation to prove themselves. I think that the portrayals of reacism between the white and colored soldiers was one of the most realistic aspects of "Glory".
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