A Time to Kill Comments

  • Mariela 2022-04-22 07:01:10

    I had read this novel before. I was drawn to it in a small bookstore many years ago, and I still remember the anger and shock when I saw the description of the crime, and the relief when the girl's father shot the thug. Relatively, the movie is not so attractive, it seems to lack a...

  • Russ 2022-04-22 07:01:10

    many stars. The film has actually set the tone at the beginning. Isn't it said that the rape case can't be said in court? Of course, the story king won in the end. Samuel L. Jackson actually succeeded in self-defense to a certain extent, his brain was very good, and he was blind as a...

  • Maryam 2022-04-21 09:01:47

    Very powerful! Reminds me of Broken Lock...

  • Rahul 2022-04-21 09:01:47

    It's not particularly smooth. I feel that the emotional drama between Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock is unnecessary. The courtroom drama now seems small. The subtle thing is that there are people who are righteous and righteous in this scene talking about justice. After all, guilt is guilt, but in "Law Abiding Citizen" everyone is applauding. I am very curious about the father who killed animals for revenge for his family (white people). The father is still tortured), why the audience's...

  • Beulah 2022-04-21 09:01:47

    Provoking ethnic hatred, manipulating ideology, and gaining political interests are still happening in today's society; on the other hand, politically correct films that promote equality and justice have always been filmed, and no one will question or object. All the characters in this film are too masquerading, and there is not a single bit of acting skills to be seen. Real life should not be so clear and clear, and it may not get what it wants; in the final analysis, the United States is...

  • Mara 2022-04-21 09:01:47

    A good film that expresses the values ​​of the American...

  • Angela 2022-04-21 09:01:47

    A court debate story full of justice and revenge, the cast is splendid and well-rounded. However, I hold the prosecution's point of view. No matter how sympathetic it is to kill the murderer with a gun, it is also taking justice from the law. It can only be said that this script focuses more on emotional expression and is created for racial...

  • Era 2022-04-21 09:01:47

    What a serious subject, what a vicious KKK, but I wanted to laugh when I saw...

  • Noelia 2022-04-21 09:01:47

    As a film about American law, this is a smooth...

  • Conner 2022-04-21 09:01:47

    It has little to do with the law, borrowing a...

Extended Reading

A Time to Kill quotes

  • Jake Tyler Brigance: [in his summation, talking about Tonya Hailey] I want to tell you a story. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. I want you to picture this little girl. Suddenly a truck races up. Two men jump out and grab her. They drag her into a nearby field and they tie her up and they rip her clothes from her body. Now they climb on. First one, then the other, raping her, shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. And when they're done, after they've killed her tiny womb, murdered any chance for her to have children, to have life beyond her own, they decide to use her for target practice. They start throwing full beer cans at her. They throw them so hard that it tears the flesh all the way to her bones. Then they urinate on her. Now comes the hanging. They have a rope. They tie a noose. Imagine the noose going tight around her neck and with a sudden blinding jerk she's pulled into the air and her feet and legs go kicking. They don't find the ground. The hanging branch isn't strong enough. It snaps and she falls back to the earth. So they pick her up, throw her in the back of the truck and drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge. Pitch her over the edge. And she drops some thirty feet down to the creek bottom below. Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white.

  • Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney: [to Jake] Didn't you defend Billy Ray Cobb a few years back?

    Jake Tyler Brigance: What kind of case was it?

    Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney: Caught him selling dope. Spent time in Parchman. Got out last year.

    Jake Tyler Brigance: I think some Memphis lawyer handled that. Why do you ask?

    Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney: Well, we picked him up for rape. Him and Pete Willard.

    Jake Tyler Brigance: Who'd they rape?

    Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney: You know Carl Lee Hailey?

    Jake Tyler Brigance: Sure, I defended his brother Lester.

    Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney: It was his little girl.

    Jake Tyler Brigance: Little Tonya?

    [Deputy nods]

    Jake Tyler Brigance: How old's she?

    Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney: She's ten.