Then a surprisingly large and ultra-intensive courtroom scene rushed forward, feeling very enjoyable, with almost no extra emotional paving, and a new court debate began. Among the various connections, a small amount of inner monologue is also cleverly used to explain the plot and also literate some common sense of law by the way.
The whole story gradually spreads out with the progress of the court debate: the
first stage: the curtain opens . The prosecution was aggressive, and the defense team headed by Keanu responded conservatively and seemed helpless. The facts of the case are almost obvious. The father-killing boy has always remained silent, and the plot is slowly brewing tension in the depression.
The second stage: stripping the cocoon. Witnesses from all walks of life appeared on the scene and unearthed an ethical tragedy of a middle-class family from a simple murder case: the murdered father, a well-known and wealthy upper-class man, turned out to be a disdainful scum. Nei continuously tortured his wife physically and mentally. Unknowingly, the emotional balance of the audience and jurors was unknowingly biased towards the suspect Mike.
The third stage: turn around. Perhaps some people think that this father is not guilty of death, so the screenwriter just right at this time let Mike open his mouth to reveal a shocking secret: He was sexually assaulted by his father, from the year he was 12 years old until now. This blockbuster was enough to blow up the final hesitation of the jurors, plus Mike himself was a minor and the acquittal verdict came naturally.
Of course, the above is only the “exhibition” plot of this story, and there is also a “li” plot buried in it: the real murderer is not Mike. At first, Mike thought it was the unbearable mother who killed his father. In order to protect her, this The child did not hesitate to sacrifice himself, imprinting his fingerprints on the dagger, and said nothing in the court hearing. But silence does not mean that there is no attitude. From time to time, Mike smeared meaningful pictures on the paper, a tree, a watch pattern...
The owner of the watch is Keanu, a good and respectful lawyer who had ganged up with Mike's mother a long time ago. Mike's father was not ignorant of this. He had warned Keanu vaguely and angrily. He abused his wife, claimed that he would never let her go, and would use all of his money to hunt her after she left, all of which led to his death. The clever Keanu killed the man himself, and made the woman forged many wounds, creating a scene where the wife killed her husband by mistake, but accidentally left his watch (the watch detail feels unnecessary. A savvy person like Keanu will Did you make such an obvious mistake? What's more, he put on a dark coat when he committed the attack. It can be seen that the watch is well prepared.) The only thing I didn't expect was the sudden return of his son Mike, which disrupted their arrangement, but also made things go more smoothly. Isn't a boy who has been sexually assaulted by his father for many years more pity than a middle-aged woman who often suffers from domestic violence?
After the initial impulse, the boy may have slowly figured out the joints, but for many years, he often listened to his father's "abuse" of his mother, which made him have a strong hatred in his heart, and he simply carried the trouble for his mother. He even did not hesitate to discredit the daddy's reputation, describing him as a wicked pedophile. It's a pity that a simple child may not understand the meaning of "abuse". Those so-called beatings and traces on the mother's body are nothing more than excessively intense "slaps". His father didn't even really beat his wife. And the child, maybe he is arrogant, poisonous, authoritarian, and likes to seek flowers and ask Liu, but in this story, he is not the biggest perpetrator.
In any case, the case ended here, except for the hapless father, everyone got the ending they wanted, and everyone could breathe a sigh of relief. Throughout the process, the lawyer played by Keanu is like an ingenious magician, manipulating everyone's emotions, playing with fairness and justice. He knows what details can change the jury's mind, and all the techniques and methods are easy to use. Even the self-proclaimed smart female lawyer could not help but become a tool for him to deceive the trust of jurors. When the camera fell on the face of the blindfolded "Goddess of Justice", thinking of the famous saying that Keanu had been saying: "Everyone is lying", I couldn't help but laugh.
In this film, Keanu Reeves’s performance can be said to be surprising. The impression of this male god is still in "Quick Chase" and "Knock on the Door", "Forty Seven Ronin" In the sloppy beard shape, it is really unaccustomed to suddenly return to such a clean and neat shape. After all, the years are not forgiving. The facial muscles of the male god will inevitably collapse when seen recently, but the overall calm and introverted temperament has emerged. Now, the calm and old-fashioned appearance of a lawyer is also very convincing. Compared with the young handsome man in the "Devil's Advocate" period, it is more charming and enduring. Gu Mbata-Lao feels a little bit unable to hold the role, his eyes are erratic, and his expression flustered, which is far from the glamorous and confident performance in the black mirror (season 3, episode 4).
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