Hank, played by Robert Downey Jr., is dressed in a suit, articulate, and does what a lawyer should do, defending his client.
Of course, this kind of defense is expensive, utilitarian, and sometimes even confounds right and wrong, but this is his profession or this is his understanding of his profession.
But all this changed until his own judge, Father Joseph, was accused of murder, and Hank slowly discovered some truths he didn't know in the process of defending his father's change.
Hank is from a small town in Indiana. That town is his hometown that he can't go back to. It's not that he can't go back, but that he doesn't want to go back. The reason for this comes from his father.
When he was a teenager, because of Hank's rebelliousness and arrogance, his brother Gran's arm was injured. Granny had the opportunity to become a player in the American Professional Baseball League, but in the end he could only sell tires in a small town. He blamed him, but his father put him in a juvenile correctional center.
At that time, the seeds of resentment were planted in the heart of thirteen-year-old Hank. He was admitted to the law department of Northwestern University with honors in high school, and his father never asked him until he graduated from college, and he didn't even attend his high school and college graduation ceremonies.
In Hank's eyes, Dad didn't understand him, and in Dad's eyes, Hank couldn't discipline him. For each other, they are the closest people in the world because of blood ties, but they are the most distant people because only blood ties.
Maybe because of this, the father didn't want the lawyer son to defend himself, maybe because of this, the lawyer son could only defend the father, Hank knew that although the father was stubborn, rigid, and indifferent to himself, he was a good judge, even when the disease passed. He is partly rational and kind.
The process of Hank's trial for his father was twists and turns due to his father's amnesia. He wanted to defend his father in his usual way, such as using amnesia to blur the facts, and using his father's previous prestige to win the trust of the jury, which proved to be very successful.
But the development of the story is like this. It always puts a stone on your way when you think it is going well, so that you can be caught off guard and be blocked by the shock, and even "catch up" your previous efforts.
Joseph admitted that he was the murderer. Joseph sat on the defendant's seat and faced his son's questioning calmly.
Joseph said frankly that at the time, this man brutally drowned his girlfriend, and the man who was the defendant sat there weeping bitterly. Joseph looked at him as if he saw his helpless son, so Joseph wanted to give him a chance and only let him. He served thirty days in prison;
When he reappeared, not only did he not repent and even worsened, Joseph looked at him as if he saw his own son, arrogant, arrogant, defiant, and hateful.
Hank stood in front of his father, his piercing eyes twinkling, and at that moment he understood his father's feelings for him, both sincere and awkward.
Sincerity is because the father understands what his son has done, he wants to give his son a chance and he wants to give himself a chance.
It's awkward because his son has indeed made irreparable mistakes, and he doesn't know how to repent.
This trial is a contest between good and evil, a game of law and emotion, and an opportunity for father and son to gradually understand and gradually reconcile.
Joseph was acquitted and found guilty.
Hank sat in the empty courtroom and cried, tears appeared between his fingers. He didn't lose the case, he just didn't let his father go home as scheduled.
Joseph was released after being held for seven months for special reasons.
Hank took his father to go fishing, just as his father took himself to fish when he was a child. On the small fishing boat, Joseph said to his son: "You once asked me who is the best lawyer I know, and my answer is you. , you are the best lawyer I have ever met."
The sun shone on the calm lake water, and Joseph closed his eyes forever. Hank didn't run away from the town as usual, he handled the house like a mature man, he learned to reconcile, with the judge father and the town and life and himself.
Sometimes some things will never end until the time is resolved. Fortunately, we will eventually reconcile at the end of time. Just thinking about it makes people full of motivation and courage to move forward.
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