You cannot break me, coz you did not make me !

Plagiarism. Flicked the topic from a movie 'The Hurricane' which i watched yesterday. Well, the movie could have been better but it still good enough to show the human spirit. Also, in a very sensitive way it portrays the mechanics of the weak human mind even when the spirit is so strong, that it raises beyond the human and physical barriers. Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter is a boxer who is charged and proven guilty for the alleged murder of a group of 'white' people in a bar in New Jersey. Innocent , he is, but the manipulation of witnesses and the erstwhile law sees him lose two trials in the State court if New Jersey and is sentenced for life imprisonment. Initially, he refuses to accept the rules of the prison, and solitary confinement is what he gets for the rebellion. He confronts himself and stays away from reaching a mental deluge.
He starts to 'do the time' refusing to be one amongst them. Writing becomes his new weapon; eventually he publishes a book, about his life and his innocence. He says, 'the only to survive this prison is to not want or need.' Denzel Washington is at his best here, looking less human with every passing minute of the movie and every passing year in Rube's life.
Then, an inspired kid, reading his book and just believes in his innocence meets Rube. This weakens him, wanting him to get out. The human side of him returns to him. For the exact details, watch the movie, it is gripping to say the least. Then, there is a Canadian trio who help him to get new witnesses and build up a strong case. Threatened, they work up a nice case, which is eventually presented in the federal court, making it make it or break it kind of scenario. Innocent he is proven in the end. A little cliched, i got to agree. But the climax is not what makes the movie to be good. It is the characters and the sensitive way of handling of them, which takes the cake.
Self pity and self obsession is made to look silly which is true in the real sense as well. Greatness comes to those who get out of such mundane behavior. Again greatness has no scale, nor no measure. Maybe greatness is a wrong word. The true value of self, freedom, knowledge and dimmed and distant commodities like power, obsession and ego; one can call it !