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BREAKING RULES
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Teks by: Nur Syafiqah Azman
The film was nominated for nine Emmy Awards and won
three which one of them was Outstanding Made for Televi-
sion Movie
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n American history during
1930’s,
race
and
skin
colour were a big issue in
discrimination.
African
Americans were a group of people
who were discriminated because of
their skin colour, and as time passed
by, more groups of races started to
get disciminated
Until today, discrimination
has not ceased yet its spreading, not
only in America but also worldwide.
Joseph Sargent’s Something
the Lord Made, adapted from a
true story of Vivien Thomas a black
cardiac pioneer and his volatile
partnership with Dr Alfred Blalock
a white surgeon, and together
they both pioneered a modern
heart surgery that save many lives
of patients who have “Blue Baby
Syndrome” that now known as
cyanotic heart disease. The film
is made with so much thoughts
and insights that left people in
wonderment about what is currently
happening right now to our society.
Discrimination has always
been there since the beginning of
time. But the fact that people neglect
the capability of someone to save
lives just because of the differences
between race and skin colour is
something that is unbelievably
backward in humankind. Vivien
Thomas (played by Mos Def) is a
very passionate guy when it comes
to his work and medical, the reason
why he stayed at John Hopkins
Hospital as a supervisor of the
surgical laboratories for 35 years
and an assistant to Blalock played by
Alan Rickman.