The film "The Elephant", which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, is based on a real school shooting. In the face of this film, film critics have paid more attention to the phenomenon of school violence it reflects, and do the innocent people who were knocked to the ground by bullets in the real world still think of such a question as "who let these children take it?" To such a terrible gun?" The dead obviously have no chance to seek answers, but the living will. And so we have Runaway Jury.
Three years ago, young Mrs Wood lost her husband, and little John, at the age of six, would never again hear his father singing the promised children's song in front of his bed. In the dazzling light of gunpowder, there was nothing left. Three years later, Lawyer Ruhr took over the thorny case of compensation of 200 million yuan. The defendant was the well-known taxpayer Wei Light Arms Company. Mrs Wood didn't want money, she just wanted the people who had been shot innocently to rest in peace, she just wanted people to be able to live in a safer society. And Wei Light Weapons Company obviously would never let her set a precedent for compensation, so they hired Finch, an expert in selecting jury members. The video game store employee Nick (translation) took great pains to infiltrate the jury that was screened, and all the backgrounds, experiences, and privacy of the twelve members were all in Finch's grasp.
We can't say which of the Chinese and American legal environments is better, but obviously, in the US court trial, the jury is the key to the final trial of the case. So twelve people of different skin colors, ages and hobbies became bargaining chips for both sides to increase the price. Can one person change the mind of the entire jury? The time-honored topic of the importance of law and emotion has once again been put in front of people, and which side will the scale of justice tilt towards? None of us can tell. So, when Nick's girlfriend, Mary, offered 10 million to both sides of the trial, we all thought that these two were really just manipulating innocent jurors for money, and through a thin veil, we saw the law 's authority is shaky under the impact of money transactions. However, the truth will never be hidden in the dust as long as those who know are alive. Facing the disappearance of the only witness, Lawyer Ruhr desperately pushed the president of Wei Small Arms Company to the precipice of rationality in court. The sanctimonious hypocrite frantically shouted "I insist on Article 52 of the Constitution!", and then the situation turned around. Finch's ruse to capture the emotional weakness of the twelve jurors is broken, and events from more than a decade ago are brought to the fore at the last moment.
Fifteen million dollars is just a number, and the little girl who was shot and killed many years ago finally found peace under Jiuquan. Nick and Mary, sitting in front of the former winner Finch after all the hardships, the manipulator who reversed the ending, are they taking the law or the emotion as the token? It is true that the law is the only criterion for maintaining normal order in society, but we are not machines or prisoners in prisons. We are flesh and blood, with family and friends, living people. It is destined that the person who makes the law and uses the law is the final judge of a case. Human morals and emotions inevitably permeate every judgment they make. A runaway jury is frantically looking for an exit and a so-called balance, while outside the courtroom, the runaway situation is exactly what people who insist on justice expect to see.
Out of control emotions are rushing towards the target by any means, and out of control laws silently escort it on the moral line. As at the end of the film, Nick said to the disastrous Finch. "I didn't do anything, I just let them judge in conscience." And that's what the law can't do but aspire to.
The People's Republic of China is a socialist society under the rule of law. We cannot deny that its legal system is far from perfect. However, the continuous promulgation of laws and regulations such as the Property Law and the Labor Contract Law makes us firmly believe that our laws are moving in the right direction. . It is precisely because of this that batches of young students come to the law school with enthusiasm. But we know better that when emotions and morals cannot maintain us in this materialistic economic society, at least we still have laws. This is the truest relationship between law and love.
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