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Dayana 2022-03-18 09:01:02

If a work wants to express too many themes, it will fall into chaos, and if it wants to take all genres, it will be a disaster. This film is a good negative teaching material.

From the title and the beginning of the film, you can easily know that this is a film that tells how a lawyer makes choices in terms of professional ethics. But with the development of the plot, the film wants to express more and more points of view: How should one choose when facing the temptation of the colorful world; When a person is satisfied with material things, he will collapse; work and family; family and friendship, affection Vanity; justice and evil,,, there are more themes, and each ink is not enough, just like a dragonfly, but the most important thing is that the audience's thoughts cannot be concentrated, and even fell into chaos.

Multi-subject and multi-form performance is even more disastrous, because this form of expression is very jumpy, giving people a sense of instability from the sky to the underground for a while. To make it uglier, it is a flirtatious tease and intellectual contempt for the audience.

The multiple themes and forms of the film make it difficult for the director to control. The fact is also true, the development of the film finally fell into a chaotic and unjustified situation.

I wanted to personally elaborate on the flaws and wrong values ​​of this film, but I deleted everything when I wrote it. Watching this film is not only a painful journey, even writing is painful.

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The Devil's Advocate quotes

  • John Milton: [On the roof] What do you think? Some people can't handle it

    Kevin Lomax: It's peaceful

    John Milton: My sentiments exactly, fill in the resume for me, what does your father do?

    Kevin Lomax: I never got to know my father, he passed away before I was born my mother raised me just the two of us

    John Milton: That can't be easy in a town like Gainesville can it?

    Kevin Lomax: I don't think it's easy anywhere

    John Milton: A little different when you looking down isn't it?

    Kevin Lomax: Yes it is

    John Milton: Your mother, what's she like?

    Kevin Lomax: She's a preacher's daughter she's tough she's worked at the same poultry as I can remember she's got a church she really likes, she's usually there or they go out and do a lot of volunteer work

    John Milton: Did it rub off? The book or the church?

    Kevin Lomax: No I'm on parole early release for time served

    John Milton: A lot of potential clients down there

    Kevin Lomax: why do you need a criminal department?

    John Milton: Our clients break the law like anyone else just tired of sending their business across the street

    Kevin Lomax: Are you offering me a job?

    John Milton: I'm thinking about it, I know you got talent, I knew that before you got here its just the other thing I wonder about: Pressure it changes everything some people you squeeze them, they focus others fold can you summon your talent at will? Can you deliver on a deadline? Can you sleep at night?

    Kevin Lomax: When do we talk about money?

    John Milton: Money? That's the easy part

  • Alexander Cullen: What the fuck was that about?