If movies like "The Prosecution Witness" and "Twelve Angry Men" make people believe that the justice is the power of justice, then "Peachy Blood Case" is a classic that shows the gray and true side of the law. We always want to believe and are willing to believe that the law defends "factual justice", but in fact, the most complete law can only guarantee "procedural justice", even if the resulting judgment runs counter to the truth.
The facts of the "Peachy Blood Case" are very simple. A man shot the suspected rapist in anger when he heard that his wife had been raped. The defense strategy that the defense lawyer thought of for the client turned out to be a "transient mental disorder" that we have ridiculed countless times. Obviously, the director does not praise the majesty of the Western judicial system, but also has no intention of criticizing its hypocrisy and ridiculous, because the law has never been as people imagined, either black or white, and always just. What the law can do is just impartiality. Therefore, the director tried his best to maintain legal neutrality, presenting the witnesses, testimony and evidence in this case, as well as the struggle between the prosecution and the defense, in front of the audience.
Unlike the excitement of watching "The Prosecution Witness" or the indignation when watching "To Kill a Mockingbird", the trial process of "Peachy Blood Case" can be called tedious, but not dull. The court trial in the movie tends to be more impassioned, and the opposition between righteous and evil is more able to mobilize people's hearts, but the trial in "Peachy Blood Case" is a bitter word on testimony, a relentless pursuit of witnesses, and a confrontation of various small tricks. , And even a bit non-serious and playful. After a long tit-for-tat confrontation, the audience suddenly discovered that they had never reached the other side of the truth. Has the prisoner's wife really been raped? Does the prisoner really have a transient mental disorder? There is no definite answer at all. We can only make our own judgments based on the evidence presented in court, just like the jury in the movie.
The oldest and most daring thing about this movie is its dismissal of the truth. It can be said that "Peachy Blood Case" is a cynic movie. It does not make any value judgments, but at the same time it leaves enough room for speculation. In this, defense lawyers are not cunning scum, and prosecutors are not cold-blooded scumbags. They just stand on their own positions and use all means permitted by law to complete their work. The truth that the judge and the jury that made the verdict can see is only the "truth" under the game between the two parties. But as we said when we talked about democracy, this kind of judicial system, even though it is bad in every way, is the least bad system. In this sense, "Peachy Blood Case" is a movie closest to the essence of law.
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