Trial of the Chicago Seven
Seven people are from different camps, in different political classes, receive different educations, have different personalities and ideals, they are reformers, rebels and visionaries in society.
The main line is the seven gentlemen being tried before the court. The two sub-lines are what happened through the lawyer's mouth during the trial and Jerry's public speech after the trial.
The entire trial process is full of irony and class consciousness. The judge's prejudice and deep-rooted discrimination, whether it is discrimination against people of color or social status, as well as the dogma and rigidity in his bones, are the representative trials of people with high social status in the era of the United States. Some people respect the system, some try to break the system, some think they are not arrested but chosen, some choose the revolution because they are disappointed with the current reality, and they gather for different reasons and different revolutionary purposes. Their internal contradictions are the inevitable student representatives. It is different from the hippies' expectations for the future reform and revolution of the country. This trial is doomed before the trial - the political trial You are ruled.
The first large-scale protest, a crowd that hippies could not lead the protest, led to mass chaos and bloody violence. A second before the clash between police and demonstrators, a girl holding an American flag was also protested in the chaos. The crowd pressed the ground and the hippie became the leader of the reform precisely because he was a hippie, a counter-cultural counter-traditionist at heart.
The trigger for the second confrontation was the reality in the movie after Lenny was beaten and the real black and white history interspersed with the lawyers and hippies interspersed with the story when everyone was trapped in a 1950s bar and outside When the glass between the confronting cops and rebels is broken is when reality is broken
The film is a microcosm of contemporary American society. The American election is racist, race, color, and the civil rights movement. The same confrontation between the police and the rebels and the peaceful protesters in the film say "the whole world is watching us." The same is today They are also being watched by the world.
The last at the end, Tom finally read the papers of all the soldiers who died in Vietnam. All the people stood up in turn. No one listened to the judge's statement anymore. More and more people raised their right fists. The recording is also the feedback and inspiration for us in this era.
Borrowing from the director who said in an interview that this movie is not a history lesson I don't want him to be a nostalgic thing The quest for justice, truth, democracy and freedom is timeless The idealists of that era may be gone, but the road they're on is not over yet
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