After the trial begins, it may be easy to forget who it was all for.
Interspersed with video clips, the film minimizes the politics of this political issue; in the powerful script and lines, the characters' characteristics and images of the times are fully presented. People from different places, people with different education levels, and people with different educational backgrounds have paid the price of their lives for the same idea.
It has to be said (and mentioned by many film critics) that the lines of this movie are really excellent. Alan Sorkin's obvious concerns and expectations for politics and the country have been very obvious from his famous work "The White House". However, compared to the elite anchors of "Newsroom", his political tendencies appear objective and restrained in this film. His lines have greatly reduced various external factors, providing the audience with an event-only work, through the mouths of the characters. To speak to the general aspirations of the people at the time, and to focus the film on the trial itself, rather than other grand and controversial implications and meanings. The characters' characteristics and positions of the times gradually become three-dimensional in the stacking of lines. From prosecutors, lawyers to judges, from black politicians to elite college students, the motives and thoughts of the characters are diluted. The ending of the movie even changed the order of reality, showing a shock similar to "The Defender", making the trial the only thing in the eyes and hearts of the audience.
When political issues are no longer political, when social identity is no longer social, what will be left of this trial?
Perhaps it is the expression of self, the expectations for the country, and the efforts for the future.
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