Expected Truth Unexpected Lies
When we watch a movie what do we expect from it? Drop dead gorgeous main characters? Heart rending death scenes? The ‘goodies’ triumphing over the ‘baddies’? Happy endings? But how many of us expect the truth from a movie? The film The Hurricane is one such film where the truth should be expected but instead unexpected lies are given. It takes the word of one man and creates a movie which claims to be ‘the true inspirational story of a champion’, of a wronged man who has suffered racial prejudice and injustice. This man is Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, former Black American boxer, tried and convicted of a triple murder. What we weren’t told was that this film was the true story according to the man himself, Rubin Carter, and his self written autobiography The Sixteenth Round.

The Sixteenth Round from which the screenplay was created was written entirely by Rubin Carter during his incarceration. It chronicles his life and experiences......

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