The lawyer who won the lawsuit lost the bet on human nature

Easter 2021-10-22 14:31:50

It is not that the presence of courts and lawyers must be related to justice. This movie is not about justice, but human nature. Marty is not pursuing justice at least not all, I think Marty who won the lawsuit lost the bet on human nature. His pleasure comes from the judgment of human nature, and as he said, this kind of bet excites him more than gambling. Unfortunately, he lost this bet. He is like all gamblers who fail, there is no way to recover, only acquiescence.

The film uses the image of lawyers who are clever and full of wisdom and even omnipotent perfection to tell the audience that they are excellent. Taking advantage of this, we can experience the killer's superior skills without too much explanation in the film, and all this is not to promote something, but to reflect a phenomenon. What I want us to fear is perhaps the ecological reality of justice in the social environment. This film adds a lot of weight to describe, such as the bargaining between the judicial department and the gang, and finally the gang leader’s body sinks into the water; the state attorney general’s intervention in the case; the lawyer’s industry ecology; for judicial practitioners, this is just one thing. For this job, justice is too abstract for it. I still remember the judge said at the end, I am going home. It was a good line. The judge also needs to go home from work, so does justice also need to take a break? The theme of the whole film may be-B32156-the line drawn in the book, "No one can face himself and the outside world with two faces for a long time without confusing the truth in the end" or losing himself.

One more thing is that I think the bishop refers to the environment, background conditions, government, authorities, etc. in the film. This role setting is divided into two sides. Lawyers refer to us, that is, judgment and behavior. The murderer represented the result. Although he pretended to have a dual personality split, it was the bishop who was split and the lawyer who was lost. The only one who soberly knows the truth is the murderer, which is ironic from this point. The result will change because of the first two. One is innate factors and the other is variable conditions. As the combination of the two changes, the result will be different.

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Primal Fear quotes

  • Martin Vail: [sitting with Jack Connerman in a bar] First thing that I ask a new client is, "Have you been saving up for a rainy day? Guess what? It's raining!"

  • Archbishop Rushman: [stepping to podium, slowing smiling then laughing, implying to the audience it was a joke] Well I must say, I haven't seen so many lawyers and politicians gathered together in one place since confession this morning.

    Archbishop Rushman: [audience laughter]