Michael David Weiss, the fucked up lawyer, the miserable loser, and the one who fell off before seeing his impossible triumph, left a question to us: Why could such an asshole bring strength to people around him after his doomed failure?
He was destined to get endless troubles after that reckless decision, made along with his partner Paul Danziger, to accept the big case against the powerful monopoly of medical industry. They were nobody back then, and Michael himself was already problematic at the time - he was a druggie, with an unstable family. Anyway, it was already a mission impossible.
They saw the difficulties from the very beginning, but they wanna bring the valuable products to the publicity through this case. They hoped that this new kind of safety syringes could save numerous lives from accidents or unclean reused needles.
Quite soon, Michael and Paul found themselves losing businesses, losing insurances and losing cooperators. And it's quite clear who were behind all these. Unable to transfer this devastating case to any other law agents, they had to go on by themselves. But they couldn't hold on there long enough without supplies. Even after they managed to see an Senator for help, they learned quickly that the monopoly started to donate cashes to the Senator.
In fact during the way of the case, Michael was not so firm. He also hesitated, but he chose to fight in the end. After his partner decided to accept a deal from the Monopoly for the client, he went up to see the representative of the Monopoly to show he wouldn't quit and would fight by himself alone. Then suddenly he died one day after a drug overdose, with some one-time needles by the side of him. He lost his own life before he could save more .
Learning the death, Paul and the safety syringes producers changed their attitudes, refused the deal already made with the Monopoly and decided to go on to the court. Now more and more hospitals are using this new safety syringes.
As a fool, playboy, madman, druggie and also a lawyer and friend, Michael's behavior demonstrated the verse repeated in the film:
"Sometimes the brightest light comes from the darkest place."
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