OJ Belongs to America

Rhett 2022-11-26 09:53:52

A great documentary, nesting Simpson's rise and fall in the grand historical context of black affirmative action. Let me have a more three-dimensional and fuller understanding of the character of Simpson: different from the roughness I imagined, he is such a heroic and handsome man, he has accomplished such amazing achievements as the heartthrob juice, but His arrogance, selfishness, and bigotry ultimately destroyed him. Simpson's tragedy is indeed a quintessentially American tragedy: no one else could have achieved so much on their own merits alone, except in America, an open, hyper-liberal, individual heroic country. OJ worked hard to get rid of his identity but in the end he still had to rely on his identity to escape. The film seems to imply that OJ's fortune and his final exoneration are not only his personal factors, but more of a deterministic taste. It was the United States that made him and the United States that destroyed him. I think that's why the title is made in America, right?

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  • Marcia Clark - Interviewee: [on whether to have OJ Simpson try on the leather gloves that was recovered from the crime scene at Rockingham and Bundy] Chris says I want to do it and I told him in no uncertain terms why we should not be doing this, and he said if we don't do this: they will, then I said let them and we can show why it was a bullshit experiment why it was never going to work between the shrinkage and the latex, it's never going to fit in the same way, don't do this: it was the biggest fight Chris and I ever had.

  • Fred Goldman: [referring to OJ Simpson answering the questions asked to him during his deposition in the civil lawsuit] He'd lied about everything! There's not one honest bone in his body. He's lived a life of fraud and being a fake for God knows how many decades, to a point where I think he just believes his own bull.