I first knew that the Simpson case started with Chinese-American detective Li Changyu. In the Taiwan election that year, candidate Chen Shui-bian was accused of directing and acting in the shooting case to gain sympathy and was successfully elected; Li Changyu was invited to investigate. Although there was no final conclusion, it is said that Li Changyu became famous because he made great contributions to the Simpson case. I chose to watch this film, because I wanted to see Li Changyu's brilliant decision to solve the case, and also had a sense of accomplishment for the Chinese people. I didn't want to end the 5 episodes, and I didn't mention Li Changyu at all. wry smile.
Highly recommended for three reasons: revealing content; detailed content; fair interpretation
These three aspects are actually interlinked, so they are not listed separately. But the most mysterious thing about the film is that the viewer needs to decide the case by himself, because the film does not give the final conclusion.
Simpson insisted from the beginning to the end that he did not kill his wife with his own hands, and at the end of the film he said that he hoped that everyone would remember his goodness and all his efforts.
5 episodes of the documentary, each episode is more than 90 minutes, and some are even 2 hours, which is enough to show how detailed the story is. The story continues to tell the protagonist from the positive side. The first two episodes focused on the fact that black Americans have been treated unfairly by the police, and the justice is covering up the violence of white police, and even Asian Americans in the United States are above blacks (because a Korean store cashier was shot from behind. a black girl), the cashier was sentenced to only a few hundred hours of labor as a verdict. This kind of injustice started in the 1960s and continued in the 1970s, so there were calls from civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr., and it intensified in the 1980s and improved in the 1990s. I exclaimed that the recognition of human rights in a black society has continued for 40 years, and it is still in the United States.
When I was a little bit complaining about whether the two episodes were too cumbersome to tell about the social background, it was not until the third episode that I suddenly realized that this decades-old history of black hearts was indeed the most important factor in Simpson's acquittal by the jury. The accumulated black public sentiment is to end the stigma through the Simpson case: 1) black people have never won in front of justice 2) white people feel the pain of innocent killing of loved ones and no justice for losing loved ones. So a Simpson wife murder case that was supposed to be a criminal case was turned into a racial protest by lawyers using social forces, and Simpson was acquitted. This is an unjust verdict.
Despite this development, the film is still clearly exploring the main line. However, it is estimated that the main creators of the film are also difficult to conclude the case during this investigation process, so they simply tell the truth. The whole story has always been told by two factions, one party believes that Simpson is guilty and that killing his wife is undoubtedly; the other party believes that he is innocent. After watching the first four episodes, I was in a fog. Although I knew that the court declared Simpson's innocence because of racial issues, the protagonist himself repeatedly insisted that he did not have the confidence to kill his wife. Where is the evidence? (Because the biggest twist was that Simpson's crime gloves, which the prosecution accused, couldn't fit at all.)
True to the old Chinese saying, tit for tat. Although Simpson was acquitted, his celebrity aura no longer applies in white circles. So Simpson was arrested again 13 years later, and this time it was the white justice system's turn to be disgraced: the robbery was directly convicted of the murder of his wife, and Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in prison. So the controversy remains: this is an unjust verdict.
When Simpson boldly continued his "no wife killing" theory, I thought again, is it possible that he may not kill his wife himself, but he must be the mastermind, just manipulating other people's actions? His so-called "nothing" is a trick of the wording. Because his motive for murder is unquestionable.
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