The Seven Gentlemen condensed the elements of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the hot-blooded young students, the absurd hippies, the non-violent and non-cooperative followers of Martin Luther King... A group of people from different social classes, different family backgrounds, People with different pursuits came together because of a movement against sacrifice and against power. Undercover forensics The chaos of illegal forensics in the United States is ridiculous, and outside a glass window, the two worlds of the isolated high class and protesters are suffocating; Those who turned a blind eye saw the real police officer close at hand, the former inspector general who threatened to testify in court, and the tacit understanding between the demonstrators and the demonstrators was touching.
As a beginner who has studied law, some details are very interesting. When the lawyers of the leaders of the Black Panthers did not appear in court due to hospitalization, the judge repeatedly requested that the two cases be combined by one lawyer, completely ignoring the client's autonomy over the entrusted lawyer. The plot about the police detectives disguised as hippies and illegally collecting evidence is also a blatant omission of constitutional principles. What is even more disturbing is the judge's arbitrariness, excluding the jury members who support the defendant, and expanding the discretionary power to an inexhaustible level, not to mention the obvious discrimination and unequal treatment of black people. In this film, the author deeply exposes and discusses the defects and gray areas of American judiciary, and also reflects various unfavorable factors that hinder the consistency of judicial practice and legal theory.
The narrative of the film is also a torture of real problems. Today’s America has been divided by identity politics, and the “civil rights” culture that crosses groups and builds consensus has become a thing of the past, whether it is the Floyd chokehold case or the gradually differentiated establishment elite. With grassroots people, American society is already full of contradictions. But what about tomorrow is something an anti-war film intended to reawaken civil rights cannot answer. After all, the problems of an era can only be solved through the practice and exploration of people in this era.
The student leader played by Newrt is really in line with the temperament. The character of Little Freckles has a highly educated academy temperament and a youthful impulse and blood. He has extraordinary talent but still needs time to hone his youth. I have to say that it is too suitable? Being able to film a long court trial of more than 190 days in more than two hours still makes people feel passionate and tireless. I really admire the director's screenwriting ability.
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