An idealist's wake-up call

Waylon 2022-05-01 06:01:05

After watching the end of the second time, I recall that the protagonist's last impulse and "childishness" were deliberately arranged.

Pay attention to the comparison of ordinary people: [Jurors who hurriedly step down and do not want to be restrained + the defendant is not panicked + no one in the judicial system agrees + the lawyer friend who has become a lunatic wore a shame wig and returned to the system happily! 】+The protagonist did not show any substantive evidence (compared to "Assassination of Kennedy", we can see that the American law is a strict evidence system, even if the whole country finds the defendant is guilty and there is no evidence, it will not be convicted)-the ending is a completely negative trend!

Alluding to the fact that the person in charge of the judicial system in the story is either a lunatic, or a greed, or both! (From this perspective, the arrangement of the old suicidal judge is quite reasonable and interesting)

It's just that this full house is so strong that in the end-"Nothing has changed"-is easily overlooked by careless audiences, and turned into a positive climax ending, achieving the "idealistic ivory tower victory"!

That sentence-"It's not the prosecution lawyer who killed me, but myself, I want to kill my client!"-Very idealistic, very happy.

The protagonist’s overly emotional performance is actually the need for the plot (like most idealists’ self-obsessed state when hosting sublime justice! It’s very contagious, but even the audience outside the movie feels "it seems a bit wrong and irrational, right?" ?!") The director and screenwriter should have deliberately taken this into consideration.

Just because it is really "useless". Impulse can't solve the problem!

As a result, the screenwriter and director have changed their writing skills-their crippled colleagues wearing shame-covering wigs have returned to the system and once again take up the role of "maintaining justice"! [It's a bit of a touch, but it's very tense! 】

A reminder to all the bloody or hot idealists-to maintain justice is not to pull off a few evil representatives who accidentally "make mistakes" to succeed. The true evil vitality is tenacious-the terrible thing is that it forms a vicious circle. system!

[One falls, but there are thousands of new blood (fame and fortune, or innocent, yet unknown, will be corrupted without knowing it) grow up! 】

p. s. If the film only stays at "the hero is so brave, as long as self-sacrifice persists in getting out of the mud and not getting stained, then this justice/evil eternal dilemma can be solved. It would be too idealized to fall into a short-lived cliche! You can get it! The best screenplay makes sense.

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And Justice for All quotes

  • Judge Francis Rayford: Now, just relax, Arthur. Just relax and enjoy it. The old Chinese proverb.

  • Arthur Kirkland: They want me to defend Fleming because of my moral integrity. And if I don't defend him, they're going to have me disbarred for being unethical.