Honor,Code,Loyalty

Maybe everyone has such a dream, in the public eye, talk about it, at least I had a lot of such fantasies when I was a child. Of course, childhood dreams and reality are always different, but this kind of dream also brought me to love courtroom films, such as Rainmaker and so on. And here, in this 1992 military court movie, in the courtroom scene at the end of the film, Tom Cruise is dressed in white uniform, heroic and eloquent, and it can be said to make people emotional. Discovering and explaining the truth in questioning and defense, debating and talking skills are undoubtedly reflected here. Jack Nicholson's villain acting skills can be fully reflected from this film. With a deep and magnetic voice, Colonel Jessup, who is obsessed with "I run the unit how i run the unit" and "honor, code, loyalty" "The characters are superbly performed.

Plot: Cynical army lawyer Lieutenant Kaffee is tasked with defending Dawson and Downey, two Marines accused of murder in Guantanamo. Kaffee's own attitude towards the case was finally changed at the urging of Major JoAnne, an in-house lawyer at the Ministry of Home Affairs, determined to clear the charges for the two wronged Marines. In fact, Colonel Jessup, as the supreme commander of Guantanamo, secretly ordered Code red. In the process of finding evidence and court defense, he finally succeeded in angering Colonel Jessup and let him tell the truth in court.

In fact, Colonel Markinson was the ultimate evidence or witness that the defense wanted, but when he shot himself in the hotel, the evidence actually disappeared. To face Colonel Jessup face-to-face with accusations of slandering a high-ranking military officer under such extremely unfavorable circumstances, all that remains is language skills. And the movie sets the scene where Kaffee faces Jessup at the end.

Regarding Code Red and the values ​​of the US military: The so-called red rule, simply put, allows the use of various forms of corporal punishment that threatens life to punish subordinate soldiers who make mistakes. For American soldiers such as Jessup, as long as it is to defend the "country", such rules must be used. The legality of Guantanamo in the United States will not be discussed here. Of course, at the end of the film it is mentioned that the legitimacy of an army in a civilized age is to defend the weak.

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