(Spoiler) There is a cloud that "it is difficult for a clean official to try family affairs", but "The Judge" (The Judge) has to put family affairs in court - it is not the family disputes that are common in TV dramas or divorced couples fighting for child custody , but the knot between father and son for many years. The father is a judge who claims to be impartial, and the son is a defense lawyer who "sees money to open his eyes". But this time it's not a father-son confrontation, but a son's defense of his father's alleged murder. If the entanglement between father and son often lies in their power relationship--traditionally, the father is always in a high position; then, the key to changing the relationship is whether it is necessary for the father and son to get rid of the top-down situation first, so that the two sides can have a new relationship. Look at each other from a different angle, and then have a new angle to see yourself?
Robert Downey, who plays the hero Hank, is still performing in his true colors. From the "Iron Man" series to "Dad Judge", he is the same as a prodigal son, and his venomous tongue does not change. His fans must be satisfied, but his father in the play is not. Always dissatisfied. Even though Hank has long since gone from Storm Boy to fame, his father, Joseph, who is a judge, has always regarded him as a bad boy. Joseph asks himself to be faithful to his duties, to fulfill the rule of law, but also when "the law is nothing more than human feelings", as if he never makes mistakes and feels good about himself. Although Hank is middle-aged and has a successful career, he is still bitter about his father's sending him to the detention center (boy's home); he is also dissatisfied with his father's always self-righteousness and tyranny over all family members. Hank later became angry and went to school. He was the first in his class in the law exam, which could be seen as a challenge to his father. In fact, it also showed his desire for his father's approval. Unfortunately, he always got what he wanted. The more "successful" in his career, the more his father became. It is because of its disapproval of its "market positioning" of "defending the rich and the bad".
Hank has become self-reliant and left his hometown to develop in a big city, which can be considered to avoid friction with his father. It was not until his mother died of illness that Hank returned to his hometown to face his father. In the end, the father and son could be reconciled with a murder case that ripped the judge's father from his position of authority and placed him in the defendant's box. Joseph was charged with killing a released prisoner with a car. All environmental and physical evidence is against him, although his motives remain unclear. However, Joseph was unable to provide clear information due to memory impairment due to cancer medication. As a result, the play subverted the general audience's expectations of "court drama": the protagonist's task is not to prove the defendant's innocence. On the contrary, the court scene is designed to "let people tell the truth", so that the father can admit himself The weakness - he admitted in the fence that although he could not fully regain the memory of the scene of the incident, he deduced that he had indeed killed someone. To do this, he must first unravel a knot in his heart: Joseph is an arrogant man who once concealed the fact that he was ill and amnesiac, and was unwilling to jeopardize the fair image he had built up over the years (the news of his illness would be questionable). Has he ever misjudged a case); he would rather go to jail for nothing, to make people believe that "he was in the lowest mood because his wife had just passed away, and he met an unrepentant released prisoner who uncontrollably violated the law."
As a result, Joseph still let everyone know that "Lian Po is old" in court, but an opportunity was born to express his feelings in front of everyone and his son. This very self-centered man, who did not distinguish between his position as a judge and his position as a father, transferred his forgiveness and guilt for his son Joseph to a young suspect and gave a light sentence, but the latter resentful Commit a greater sin; this stubborn prisoner, the old judge once again empathized, and transferred his frustration to the rebellious Hank, and the father and son have gone further and further away from now on. Originally, Hank hoped to gain his recognition by helping his father win the lawsuit - "I'm a good defense lawyer, not a bad guy who gets away with bad guys." But when his father admits his fault (both from a legal point of view and from his father's point of view), what Hank receives is no longer his father's top-down, authoritative approval, but an invitation -- an equal, Let go of the embrace, the invitation to be honest. The message he expresses is: "I accept that I am a weak and fallible person like you"; which also means: "I also accept that you have accepted that I am a weak and fallible person, only that I refused to admit it before. That's it."
This time, Hank is still defending the guilty person, but lost the case, but most importantly, he finally won the approval of his father: "You are the best lawyer in my heart."
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