Few people's life experiences have been as dramatic as Simpson's. In the process of watching the movie, what surprised me was that I had never heard of such a twisted and bizarre story before, not even Simpson.
Simpson was born in a poor black neighborhood, and then became an American football player who made history and became famous. When blacks were treated extremely unequally in the 1960s and 1970s, he entered the upper class in one fell swoop and became a rare celebrity widely loved by the public.
The story is told in two lines:
The first is about Simpson's life. He went from being an unknown person to a big star. Later, there was a case of Simpson's wife murder that shocked the world. He was finally found not guilty. 33 years in prison ended.
The second is about the human rights issues of black people in the United States. Black people are treated unequally, which has also led to frequent conflicts between black groups and LAPD. In fact, Simpson has always wanted to squeeze into the upper class of white society, and did not speak for the human rights of blacks.
In the Simpson case, the two lines combine dramatically. On the one hand, the evidence of Simpson's murder is conclusive, and on the other hand, the anger accumulated by the black masses has reached a high point. Simpson's defense lawyers ("Team Ace") cleverly found some points of rebuttal. For example, the police officer who received the certificate is a racist (Simpson may be framed), the extracted DNA may be contaminated, and the key evidence glove Simpson cannot carry (in fact, there is a big problem) and so on. In the white group, everyone widely believes that the evidence of this case is solid, but in the black group, they are more willing to believe that Simpson is innocent, and they also hope that a black person can prove his "innocence" in the American judicial system. In the end, the famous Simpson case ended in Simpson's acquittal due to the mistakes of the prosecution.
However, Simpson's later life was not very good. His reputation has not been as good as before, and the subsequent civil lawsuit also sentenced him to 33 million in compensation. He began to make money by selling autographs and peripherals. At the same time, he became more and more clueless. He smoked marijuana, lived a promiscuous life, and even found a girlfriend who looked like Nicole (ex-wife). In the end, dealing with some friends and friends made him more and more arrogant and domineering. The last gun robbery case was also because of his friends betrayed him, saying that someone had a lot of things belonging to Simpson (actually, it was the autograph and the like), Simpson's mind became hot , and take a group of people to snatch back "your own things". And on this funny case, the court finally sentenced Simpson to 33 years in prison.
This documentary made me feel two things:
It turns out that the so-called rule of law is the standardization of the rule of man, and the concept of equality can never become a reality. After Simpson committed a murder, he could get away with it, and when he committed a robbery, the court sentenced him so heavily in order to make up for the previous sentence. Simpson is punished for killing, so is justice here? As his friend said, it's an American fair.
After the Simpson case, he originally lived in the upper-class white neighborhood and was no longer welcome to see him, but in another environment, he was still very popular. The psychology of the masses is really a wonderful thing. At the mass level, the truth of the matter may not be important anymore. What the masses know is only "simple information", that is, the form is simple and easy to understand.
The cover of the discipline film is also quite interesting: at first I thought it was Simpson as a symbol of American football players, but later I found out that gloves are also the key evidence in the Simpson case, this cover is a good realization of Simpson's American dream and the fall of American tragedy. .
View more about O.J.: Made in America reviews
