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==== Life is made up of many lines, joining one person to another. If you group people around the globe together and make a connection map among them, I am sure that the map must be extremely condensed and complicated with lots of intersections. However, what do these connections depend on? We can consider the movie “Cry Freedom” directed by Richard Attenborough in 1987 to see how unexpected that one’s life can be in this connection! It talks about Steve Biko, who is a black anti-racist, supports to overthrow the apartheid system in South Africa. This banned person has done a lot of illegal works to promote his idea in the black community, longing for a fair treatment between the white and the black. Due to the racism issue, how can he make friend with a white journalist Donald Woods? And Woods support and help him all the way against the long-lasting unwritten code? Woods as a journalist needs to search for truth to be posted on his newspaper article. It is the power of written language that brings them together. They have the chance to meet and get to know more about each other through conversations. Biko has once said, “…… About your humanity. Something to do with your blackness because no matter how smart or dumb a white child, he is born to that world. And you, a black child, smart or dumb you are born into this. And smart or dumb you die in it.” This allows Woods to reflect it is humans who set the code and educate the others and the next generations about the restrictions that they need to follow. With the power of language, it gives us chances to question ourselves: Are we thinking and looking deep enough? We should not just base on the outer appearance but believe in ourselves! ====