The title of this film is The Hurricane. The title comes from Rubin Carter’s nick-name Rubin”Hurricane” Carter.
Rubin”Hurricane” Carter was a famous boxer in USA in the 60’s. He was sent to prison when he was a child because he stabbed a pedophile. Then he fled from the prison after 8 years, but he was captured again. Through that period he decided to become a boxer, because he wanted to be able to protect himself. He was successful and became a very famous boxer. One day he was captured by the police because they found three dead people. There was another person who was there and “saw” that it was two black people that killed them and they had a white car, and so the police arrested Rubin ”Hurricane” Carter. He was convicted and sentenced for 3 whole life times.
Rubin”Hurricane” Carter was played by Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. He got an Oscar for it and I think it tells you if he was realistic or not.
The story took place in New Jersey in USA, in the 60’s. American used the black people as slave some years back, which is why USA wasn’t a great place to be a black person at that time. In Canada they didn’t think of the black people as less worthy people,that is why the canadian helped Rubin”Hurricane” Carter, out of the prison.
When he was in prison, those 4 Canadian persons took up the case of Rubin”Hurricane” Carter. They found out that Rubin”Hurricane” Carter wasn’t the one that killed those 3 persons, but they didn’t have enought evidence. At last they managed to get enough evidence. They went to the ?statsrett? and won the trial. Rubin”Hurricane”Carter was freed the 8.november.1985.
