Fragmented look and feel (details to be added)

Eino 2022-03-21 09:01:47

For some viewers who are not familiar with the history of this period, this film may need to be watched more than two times to clear up many points that can be paid attention to. After all, a lot of dialogues are often used to connect the plots in the film. These dialogues are arranged by multiple forces for their own business. The planning and logic behind them take a little time to digest, and it even takes a little time to get acquainted with the seven gentlemen and their defense lawyers. face in order to figure out who is who (the tangle of face-blind patients) so there are limited points to remember after reading it for the first time.

1. Divisiveness within the Seven Gentlemen camp: mutual hostility and mutual understanding between Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman

1.1 Tom Hayden: The inner pull of the moderate elite and the white left: restraint and radicalism

To some extent the judge was right in his insight - a champion of an existing system whose rebellion is also a rebellion within the existing framework

The only time the radical attitude came from when a close comrade-in-arms and a colleague were brutalized by the police

1.2 Abbie Hoffman: Radical Grassroots Left

History background

"I was really born in the 1960s" - hippie spirit, sharp, reckless adolescence

2. The handling of the role of the judge: the acting is superb, but the character is "bad" and it is a bit face-off

3. Lawyer Bill: The gradual collapse of an orthodox lawyer's belief in the judicial order - what happens when the highest belief in the legal spirit and the firm maintenance of the system of separation of powers disappears

4. The list of readings at the end: fortunately, sublimation and emotional incitement, suspected sloppy and evasive discussion

5. Editing and presentation techniques ("speech montage"?)

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Extended Reading
  • Suzanne 2021-11-27 08:01:20

    The political court drama based on famous historical events in the 1960s that Netflix launched during the US election is quite interesting. The modern society of mankind needs the law, and the law is also progressing through continuous practice, reflection, debate, and revision. So it is very meaningful to be able to shoot and see such a subject.

  • Uriel 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    It is another five-star new film, but unlike the previous films that jointly revealed the new method, this is the last dazzling afterglow of the old method. My evaluation criteria have been rebuilt recently: because compared to the ontology of film, the next ten years may need to care more about the carrier-movie as a channel has never been so dangerous; film as an art has never been so important too. What is apparent authority, what is fundamental authority, what is "a line", what is NPC, and what is dialectical power (blood? Whose blood?), I will often use this movie to wake me and us. "Actually, today's world is made up of both the dead and the living, not just the living. It's a simple concept, but it's always ignored and ignored." This passage From Lou Ye, I moved it out because I think Alan Sorkin made this movie with such an attitude. Salute to all conscientious filmmakers.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 quotes

  • Abbie Hoffman: [to Dave, Jerry , Rennie, Daphne and their supporters about the crowd behind them] Keep 'em movin'. Dave and I are gonna to stay and make Tom's bail.

    Rennie Davis: [shouting to the crowd] Back to the park.

    Abbie Hoffman: [quietly to Dave] I don't carry money, do you?

    David Dellinger: I do. I'm a grown man.

  • [last lines]

    Crowd: [voice over, shouting] "The whole world is watching."