The Great Debaters

Another movie that we watched is “The Great Debaters” by Denzel Washington from Oprah Winfrey's Production Company. The Great Debaters is a based-on-a-true-story drama that actually manages to inspire. I know this movie sounds boring and I even can hear my friends yawning while watching this movie but I think this movie is great. 

Washington plays Melvin Tolson, a poet and professor at Alabama’s historically black Wiley College. He works to build up the school debate team to the highest national standards. The debate team consists of James, Samantha, Henry and Hamilton who left the team when they made ​​it to the next level. The team does well from the outset, defeating teams at other black colleges and eventually being invited to compete at white universities.

What I like about the movie is the way the debaters debated. We can see how they delivered the point, the facts that they get and the way they defend their team confidently. It is interesting for me because all the debaters they have extraordinary debate skills and never get bored of it because what we can see certain people they do not really like to deal with facts and open a hundreds book just to find a point or arguments.

In addition we also can see racism against black people. In the scene where as the team is driving to participate in a debate, they encounter a black man hanging lifeless from a tree. The totally scarred and barely human body is surrounded by whites who seem to take pleasure in what they have done. From my opinion we have to stop this racism to keep unity among all of us. It might hard for certain people to adapt the situation but we live in societies that have different type of people. To live in a big society we have to socialize and follow the society.