'First Degree Fear': First Degree Evil claps and laughs

Daron 2022-04-20 09:01:20

The old bishop of the church was cut off with more than 70 knives in his hand in the apartment. The scene was brutal and bloody. After a timely pursuit, the police arrested a cowardly teenager who escaped from the scene. This is a definite first-degree murder case. After being sorted out by a famous barrister, it is found that something is wrong, and there are many disputes involving people behind the scenes. They decide to save the innocent teenager and find out the real culprit. While inviting a psychiatrist to restore the incident to the juvenile, he digs deep into the enemies that the bishop offended during his lifetime. After 800 rounds of arguing with his ex-girlfriend lawyer in court, under the increasingly unfavorable situation, when the teenager appeared in court, he was provoked by the female lawyer's aggressiveness, and was almost twisted by the long-awaited psychotic state. Broken female lawyer's neck. This proves that the juvenile is mentally ill and must be admitted to the hospital for observation, and the criminal law shall be reduced or exempted. While the barrister was complacent with joy, the grateful young man showed his false pretence and ended with a heaven-defying ending.

It can be said that this was a fairly popular court model play in those days, with twists and turns in the plot and debates in the courtroom to expose many dark sides of society and thinking about fairness and justice. The people and things around the conspiratorial bishop, the state attorney general's intrigues, when the film was about to touch the darkest part, when everyone thought that was the case, cleverly led the plot to another exciting On the point, thus avoiding sharp topics, it can be regarded as the wisdom of the screenwriter.

In fact, the focus of this film is not only that, if Richard Gere's interpretation of the charming gentleman is pleasing to the eye, then the pink-looking Edward Norton's interpretation of the dual-character yin-yang boy can be described as extremely explosive and shocking. A moment of stammering, and a moment of ferocity and a gruff voice, just like Kevin Spacey's good and evil. Although this film is only Norton's film debut, it has won numerous Best Supporting Actor awards since it was released, and it has become a blockbuster since then.

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Primal Fear quotes

  • Martin Vail: [sitting with Jack Connerman in a bar] First thing that I ask a new client is, "Have you been saving up for a rainy day? Guess what? It's raining!"

  • Archbishop Rushman: [stepping to podium, slowing smiling then laughing, implying to the audience it was a joke] Well I must say, I haven't seen so many lawyers and politicians gathered together in one place since confession this morning.

    Archbishop Rushman: [audience laughter]