GLory
The Civil War was a great event in everyone's life. Especially in the lives of the African Americans. We saw how they were forced into slavery and the hardships and torture that these men and women went through. However, we cannot go through what these brave men and women went through. In this film, "Glory," these former slaves and fugitives combine their forces with those who did them wrong, the "white" men, to fight for their country. However, these men are deprived of supplies a soldier needs and treated as if they were still slaves. They lacked the right to be an officer or a human being. All this changes when their commanding officer starts to see it their way and is not only their leader but also their friend. With the president against the idea of having African Americans enlisting in the army, these brave soldiers take on what most people wouldn't today. This film tells the story of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in 1863, made up of black soldiers - some Northern freemen, some escaped slaves - and led by whites, including Robert Gould Shaw, the son of Boston abolitionists. Although it was widely believed at the time that blacks would not make good soldiers and would not submit
180,000 in all, and may have been decisive in turning the tide of the war. The training was harsh on the colored soldiers. They were disciplined as if they were still slaves. They lacked the respects that a white soldier would receive. "Glory" tells the story of the 54th Regiment largely through the eyes of Shaw (Matthew Broderick), who in an early scene in the film is seen horrified and dismayed by the violence of the battlefield. Returned home to recover from wounds, he is recruited to lead a newly formed black regiment and takes the job even though his own enlightened abolitionist opinions still leave room for doubts about the capability of black troops. It is up to the troops themselves to convince him they can fight - and along the way they also gently provide him with some insights into race and into human nature, a century before the flowering of the civil rights movement. Among the men who turn into the natural leaders of the 54th are Trip (Denzel Washington), an escaped slave, and John Rawlins (Morgan Freeman), first seen in the film as a gravedigger who encounters the wounded Shaw on the field of battle. These little details lead up to larger ones, as when the children of poor black sharecroppers look on in wonder as black soldiers, in uniform, march past their homes. And everything in the film leads up to the final bloody battle scene, a suicidal march up a hill that a
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