In some movies, you search for it thousands of times in the crowd, but you still have nowhere to find it. When you forget it, it jumps out in a hurry. Do you think it is cheap or not? Yesterday, I was looking for the American TV movie "Election Disaster", but I couldn't find it a few days ago. The Russian version of "12 Angry Men" that didn't even have a video store appeared. It's better to meet by chance. , then come down and have a look. By the way, "Election Storm" was not found, so I had to wait for the next encounter.
The film tells the story of a Chechen teenager who kills his adopted father, a Russian military officer, and faces life in prison. A jury of 12 people will make a verdict, and there is a rule that the verdict must be unanimously passed by 12 people before it can take effect. These 12 people came from all walks of life, from all walks of life, from businessmen, to actors, to taxi drivers, to media owners, to surgeons, to artists...and even a guy working in a cemetery. The verdict started, 11 people found the juvenile guilty and one person found innocent...
This film is a remake of the American film of the same name in the 1950s, which starred Henry Fonda and is a classic in the history of cinema. The background of this remake is not small. The director is Nikita Mikhalkov, known as the Russian Spielberg. This low-yield director has many movies that are excellent, such as "The Barber of Siberia". ", such as "The Burning Sun". This remake is his work after many years of silence, and it is also not bad.
By the way, I especially like to watch remakes. Of course, the premise is that I have seen the original version. Americans are the most willing to remake films. , "Untouchable Lovers" and "Infernal Affairs" are not inferior to the original, of course, there are also relatively poor remakes, such as the remakes of several West End Kirk movies, which are far from the original.
Going back to the movie "12 Angry Men", if the original movie is steel and iron, then the new version has added a lot of flesh and blood, but in my humble opinion, this movie has too much flesh and blood, and the movie is somewhat bloated. , without the heartwarming dramatic tension of the original. The original work is what happened in a room, and this work is also interspersed with the growth experience of a juvenile suspect. I think only Russians will feel deeply about this episode. For me, a foreigner, it is more or less the point of nowhere.
The 12 characters in the original version are very vividly portrayed and have distinct personalities, but the new version of these 12 characters not only have distinct personalities, but also have a bitter past, and they all have complex emotions-ethnic hatred, class hatred, different. And foot. The perception of Chechens, for example - a group of barbaric Caucasians, like the Jews - is always full of intrigue, and of course the Communist Party. These stories and emotions make it seem like the jury members were based on their emotional likes and dislikes, rather than rational logic, when judging the juvenile's guilt. Although the plot of the case analysis in the original book was also retained, it was completely overshadowed by these emotional catharsis.
Of course, the director may also have his own considerations, because the original film has already performed the case analysis very well. If he wants to make a breakthrough, he must find another way. The director added this series of things, probably hoping that the film will be more Russian, if it is If so, then he did, and the film is as heavy as Russia, but it goes a little too far, feels draggy and makes the verdict unconvincing. The end of the film was slightly modified and made a small disturbance, hoping to give people another perspective, but after watching it, I still felt a little superfluous.
When it comes to this movie, old or new, I want to talk about the jury system. Under this judicial system, the defendant is innocent before the verdict, and the prosecution has to prove his guilt, and whoever advocates the evidence, the prosecution is responsible for providing evidence to prove the defendant's guilt. You need to provide evidence to prove your innocence, you only need to question the evidence provided by the prosecution, and the jury of 12 people must pass unanimously, which requires the prosecution's evidence to convince every member of the jury , that no one in doubt can rule that the defendant is guilty. Of course, don't forget that there is also the "Miranda Act" that prisoners have the right to remain silent, all of which guarantee the justice of the law and the protection of individual rights to the greatest extent.
Of course, this kind of judicial system will inevitably misplace criminals, such as the famous trial of the century - the murder of Simpson's wife. The most powerful evidence for the prosecution in this case is the testimony of a police officer who appeared on the scene, but Simpson's high-paying dream lawyer team started with the policeman's character and unearthed his racially discriminatory remarks. In this way, these powerful 's testimony was deemed untrustworthy in a racially discriminatory context, and Comrade Simpson went free. That's the price this judicial system pays for protecting individual rights - it's better to misplace a thousand than one. Let’s look at our country’s laws again, and think of the famous saying, “Frankness is lenient, resistance is stricter.” Its cruelty can be imagined. The price paid by our legal system is a large number of unjust deaths.
Coming back to cinema again, when it comes to Russian cinema, we always find resonance in it because they used to have the same ideology as ours. There is a passage about the Communist Party in the film: "If anyone lies, even under oath, then he is a communist. They (communists) lie from beginning to end, for privilege, for profit, or It's just out of habit." This sentence resonates with me as a Chinese.
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