After watching the movie, I feel that the screenwriter of this film is awesome, and I especially want to see what the script of this film looks like.
In addition, in the movie, I personally think that the debate between Schultz and Abby is the most exciting. It is another wonderful court debate after "The Witness for the Prosecution". The following are the lines of the debate between the two.
Defense attorney (Abby's side attorney): "Abby, do you know why you were tried?"
Abby: We crossed state lines with certain ideas, not machine guns, drugs, not little girls, but ideas, and we carried certain ideas from New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio to Illinois, and for that we suffered Tear gassed, beaten, arrested, tried.
In 1861 Lincoln said in his inaugural speech: "When men are tired of exercising their constitutional right to fix their government, they should exercise their revolutionary right to dissolve and overthrow that government", if Lincoln's speech was given last summer in what Linkin Park did, he'll be tried like the rest of us
Prosecution attorney (Schultz): "In your words, how do you peacefully dissolve and overthrow your government?"
Abby: We do this every four years in this country
Prosecution attorney: Did you hear the recording of Tom Hayden we played?
Abby: YES
Prosecution Attorney: Did you hear Mr Hayden ordering his men to take to the streets?
Abby: His subordinates? Hayden isn't a mob boss, and neither am I
Prosecution Attorney: Did you hear him say, "If it's going to bleed, let it go all over the city?"
Abby: Yes, I've heard
Prosecution attorney: What do you think of that sentence?
Abby: I think Tom Hayden is a steadfast American patriot
Prosecution lawyer: I didn't ask you what you think of him, I asked you what you think of his instructions to the public
Abby: I also heard Tom Hayden say "Let's end the war, but no one stopped shooting because of it, Mr. Schultz is free to interpret it out of context.
Prosecution lawyer: "If it's destined to bleed"? How can this sentence be taken out of context?
Abby: Someone once said, "I'm here to provoke a son against his father, and a daughter against his parents." Do you know who said that?
Attorney for the prosecution: Jerry Rubin
Abby: YES, NO, it’s Jesus Christ, Matthew chapter 10 verse 35, it sounds like he must be letting the children kill their parents, read chapter 10 and chapter 36 and understand it differently
Attorney for the prosecution: Are you…
Abby: Interrupted, he just saw his best friend get beaten on the head with a baton, Mr. Schultz, who are those cops?
Prosecution Attorney: Do you hold your government in contempt?
Abby: Do I…
Prosecution Attorney: Interrupted, yes, do you hold your government in contempt?
Abby: I think the institutions of our democracy are very good, but they are now occupied by some bad people
Prosecution lawyer: please answer my question
Abby: Ask again?
Prosecution Attorney: Do you hold your government in contempt?
Abby: My contempt is nothing compared to my government's contempt for me
Prosecution lawyer: We listened to the testimony of 27 sworn witnesses, and they all said that you wanted to conflict with the police, and that you went to disrupt the plan of the conference to deliberately cause the police to conflict with you.
Abby: If I had known this would be my first wish, I would have made a bigger wish
Attorney for the prosecution: Please answer yes or no. When you came to Chicago, did you expect to have a conflict with the police?
Abby: long silence
Prosecution lawyer: You have to think about this issue for so long, which makes me very worried
Abby: Can you give me some time? friend. I have never been judged for my thoughts
And the line at the end of the film, in which many people chanted in unison, sonorously and powerfully: "The whole world is watching." They have indeed done it, letting the US government use the power of the state apparatus to deliberately convict the minds of ordinary citizens, just like the Korean movie "The Defender", such a movie with ideas and expressions will make people feel powerful and alive. .
After watching this film, I am more curious about the causes and consequences of the protests of the youths in Hong Kong. It would be better if someone could photograph them.
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