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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  • Bill Hodgman: [after studying the crime scene] I believe Nicole had come out of the house expecting Ron Goldman, she encountered OJ, then she was quickly subdued. There was evidence of blunt forced trauma near the crown of her head, possibly consistent with the testimony of the coroner.

  • Bill Hodgman: [after studying the crime scene] I believe she went down first: four stab wounds, three were deep ones, one shallow, inflicted on the left side of her neck. Her head was on the first step above the first pavement level where the rest of her body was. I believe Ron Goldman was on the scene after Nicole had been subdued. As Ron came upon Nicole as he moved forward to the fallen Nicole, OJ may have grabbed Ron from behind and probably had the knife at his throat.