In Chicago, lawyer Martin doesn't care about the "truth" of the case. He only cares about the "truth" he tells the jury to make them believe. , the winning rate is very high. There was a murder in which a bishop was brutally murdered with 78 stab wounds, his eyes and genitals gouged out. Police caught a teenager, Aaron, who was present at the time of the crime, covered in blood and had his fingerprints on the knife, who fled in a hurry after the crime. Upon hearing the news, Martin took the initiative to defend the suspect Aaron, and decided to excuse Aaron on the grounds that there was a third party at the scene of the crime, and the prosecution lawyer was Martin's ex-girlfriend Jenet. Martin communicated with Aaron step by step. Aaron stuttered and slowed his speech, but insisted that he was innocent. During the incident, he fainted and lost his memory. Martin learned that Aaron had a tragic childhood. He would faint and lose his memory from time to time. A psychologist was hired for him. Once, Aaron suddenly became irritable and arrogant in front of Martin, and even attacked him, as if he had become another person, and scolded Aaron for his cowardice and incompetence.
At the same time, Martin found out what was behind the bishop. He secretly transferred charitable funds, invested in real estate operations, transformed the homeless area into shops, regardless of whether the original residents lived or died, and even used Aaron and other choir teenagers to perform pornographic performances for him. . Near the final court trial, Martin was at a great disadvantage. He could not temporarily change the reason for his defense, but he could not investigate the existence of the "third party", and affirmed that the person was killed by Aaron/Joy, so he cursed his assistant. . They also searched Aaron's house, happened to meet Alex, who was also under the bishop's hand, and ended up with the pornographic tape, which was even more detrimental to them, and the prosecution would accuse Aaron of murdering the bishop for this reason.
On the day of the trial, Martin was forced to imply that Aaron should not be so sissy, and at the same time stimulated Jenet to accuse Aaron fiercely, which finally caused Aaron to be stimulated and exploded in court. The split personality Joy controlled her body, cursed Jenet, and strangled her neck. In the end, the judge ruled that Aaron was schizophrenic and was sent to relevant institutions for treatment. He would not go to prison, and he would be able to regain his freedom with a high probability after a period of time. Aaron meets Martin again in private, and he becomes the stammering weak Aaron again, who tells Martin to apologize to Jenet and hope it doesn't hurt her. Martin didn't feel right, and when he turned around, he found that Aaron was uncharacteristically, and learned that there was no Aaron from beginning to end, everything was faked by the evil Joy, Martin walked out of the cell and came outside, feeling hopeless and powerless in his heart, and his faith collapsed.
In the old movie of 1996, the male protagonist seemed to be quite famous at the time. Edward Norton's male supporting role was too stealthy, just like The Dark Knight Riches Ledger's Joker. Later, Norton included the recently changed ending of "Fight Club". "Including, probably played a lot of schizophrenic roles. When I checked, Norton was born in 1969, and he was almost 27 when this film was made. Can you imagine that Aaron/Joy are almost 30? ? ? Norton also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role, and was nominated for an Oscar. This "First Degree Fear" can also be regarded as his debut in his acting career. Later, he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar and another supporting actor, but it's a pity None.
The title of the film "Primal Fear" is not particularly appropriate to translate into "first-degree fear". Primal here is closer to the meaning of "basic, the most instinctive". The deepest fear of moral shattering.
The courtroom scene in the film is very intense. Of course, after all, the film has some things that cannot happen in reality. There are many legal and judicial system issues worth discussing. There are also cases of priests and bishops molesting pedophiles, tragic childhood and being raped. Obscene boyhood seems to have become the norm for schizophrenia.
There are two explanations at the end. The second seems to have not been considered by the screenwriter, but it is indeed more reasonable. If it is really explained that everything is pretended by Joy, there will be a lot of logic that doesn't make sense. According to Joy's character, will it be as weak as in the video tape and forced to send pornographic videos? Still talking to a psychologist when the camera broke before changing personality? How could he be sure that he would have a good lawyer like Martin, otherwise his pretense wouldn't work, and the discovery of the tape was purely accidental. It is better to understand that Aaron did have a split personality, but in the end, he was completely aroused in court, making this body controlled by Joy for a long time, even after the crisis and trauma had passed, Joy completely controlled this body, and All Aeron's memories.
There are a lot of things that I didn't understand, probably because it was spoiled in advance, and I've been thinking about how to shoot it. I didn't understand some things about the bishop, the government, and about the underworld. It probably means that the underworld is more loyal than the government. . The role of Martin, which started out as cynical for the money, turned out to be positive, dedicated to his work and doing his due diligence. In my opinion, this set of judicial system should allow the parties to tell the truth of the matter to the greatest extent with the professional help of the prosecution and defense lawyers, and draw out all the reasonable and unreasonable places, and carry out an orderly process under the guidance of the judge. At the end of the debate, the twelve jurors who avoided mistakes to the greatest extent negotiated and made a decision, giving the defendant the most fair and reasonable treatment.
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