There is no narration, only factual statements, a large amount of historical data, a large number of parties including lawyers, police officers, friends, brokers, victims' families, journalists, biographers, etc. appeared on the scene and made recollection statements, first-hand materials, real scene restoration, yes A rare quality documentary. It does not stop at the level of searching and recording, but focuses on digging deep into social issues, human nature and systems, which brings people endless thinking.
If you don't understand the background of the whole event, watching the first episode will feel boring and unintelligible. And when I rewatched it, I found that the beginning was really great. It's a videotaped trial of a late Simpson trial after serving a few years for armed robbery in Las Vegas, and the judge asks, you were first detained when you were 46 years old, wasn't it? The arrogant Simpson immediately fell into Chen Si, yes, I was about 46 years old at the time. Thus, opened the prelude to the entire documentary.
The first part focuses on racial issues in society at the time and Simpson's origins and achievements in his youth. In Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s, the black population grew substantially, but the social status and activities of blacks and whites were clearly divided. Simpson was born black in San Francisco and grew up in a single black family in the ghetto. Because of his entry into the football team of the University of Southern California, he has attracted much attention.
The second part focuses on Simpson's development after he became famous. After becoming famous, Simpson was eager to tear off the black label on his body, and began to use his celebrity effect to quickly integrate into the white upper class, including entering various high-level clubs with only whites, divorcing his black wife, and quickly dating a white girl nicole. brown married. After Simpson ended his career as an athlete, he began to enter Hollywood, shooting commercials, receiving endorsements, maximizing his reputation and becoming a real celebrity.
The third part begins to tell the plot of the case, the story before and after the case. Before the incident, Simpson had shown signs of domestic violence. The producers here transferred the recordings of Nicole's repeated calls to 911, as well as the TV footage of the police chasing Simpson after the incident. Exaggeratedly, abc live-streamed the whole process of the police's pursuit on the highway. The specifications are comparable to a presidential trip, known as the hunt of the century, and the eight-month trial that follows is also known as the trial of the century.
The fourth part is the most exciting part, focusing on the debate methods and strategies of the defense lawyers of the defendant and the plaintiff, how the two sides argued step by step, played their cards separately, and how to use public opinion and the social background at that time to make the most favorable defense for themselves. Simpson found a team of star lawyers who were famous at the time to defend him, and the daily fee was $50,000. The trial lasted 267 days. Although there was a lot of evidence that Simpson was the murderer of his wife, Simpson was finally acquitted due to the taint of the evidence itself (thanks to racial issues in the society at the time and a strong team of lawyers).
The fifth part is that Simpson, who won the criminal case, is facing a civil lawsuit and needs to pay more than 33 million US dollars in compensation, which directly made him bankrupt. Living on acupuncture points, signing autographs and some commercial performances. Later went to Florida and lived a depraved life. Finally, when attending a wedding in Las Vegas, he entered the country with a gun and robbed his biographical materials and was arrested by the police. This time, Simpson was not so lucky and was directly arrested and jailed without bail for the first nine years. Thus, the trial scene at the beginning of the documentary appeared.
A very well told story. Simpson is a controversial figure, strong affinity and social skills and self-expression tension, good at acting and hiding, a star who grew up from the ghetto, has been working on getting rid of his black label and trying to integrate into white society, but At a critical moment, he was saved by the power of public opinion because of his black identity. After falling from a height, he could not find a sense of existence in the white world, and he used his black identity to build momentum among blacks and gain prestige for himself. His personality itself is a fog.
The invisible driver of the Simpson case was the racial issue in society at the time. The film also cited a lot of racial conflicts in the society at that time, such as the great turmoil in Los Angeles at that time, and the Simpson case became a breakthrough for black people to revenge white people.
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