1. American make a story tradition
In the American film and television works I have seen in the past, the scene of the court scene is always without the storytelling link: if you want to win this lawsuit, then you have to make up a perfect excuse for your behavior, not knowing the past The voice of the variety show is keen to make up the background of the bitter drama is not learned from here. It doesn't matter whether you have committed a crime or not, as long as you say it sincerely and movingly, as if all your sins can be forgiven, in my impression, Rick & Morty once satirized this phenomenon in an episode.
2. Decent people in Pakistan & Lebanon
If the US court can win by making up stories (which is not the case), then I will naturally doubt the authenticity of their remarks. In fact, from the feeling of American and Korean film and television works, they are advocating falsification, relying on some clever tricks. Trick to get the victorious (or brief). Compared to this, I was impressed by the decent people in Pakistan and Lebanon. They were reluctant to lie, or even to speak in their favor in court in order to stick to their own ideas. This can't help but remind me of Meursault in "The Outsider": "When you express more than you feel in your heart, you are lying." And in the second trial in the film, the prosecution lawyer used the Pakistani eldest brother. The evil deeds he has done in the past prove that his nature is a violent and vicious person, and it also reminds me of the Meursault trial.
But having said that, I admire such decent people very much. They can insist on expressing their ideas, are not easily disturbed by the outside world, and are willing to fight against those who disturb them without compromise. When this kind of struggle will harm one's own interests and still insist on it for one's own dignity, one will gain respect.
3. Crybaby
In the film, when the Pakistani elder brother ran to the Lebanese younger brother's warehouse for the second time and scolded him, he said that we had suffered much more suffering and sacrifice than you, and you were only swept by the edge of the tornado, and you were looking for life and death. Useless crybabies (to the effect). One of them makes a lot of sense to hear it, but in fact, as long as any tragedy occurs, the trauma cannot be repaired. Even the Pakistani people have been devastated by the war, but they are more able to adapt. The film talks about the problem of Pakistani refugees. It's not fair to hear it. They have endured too much, and no one will think there is any problem if they endure more. The people of the banana orchard live a life of paradise, but they are affected by the war and slaughtered. This kind of The trauma, for the local people, is no less than the grief of Pakistan.
4 lawyers think it's a decent way for US lawmakers to apologize
In a very interesting scene in the film, the prosecution lawyer read out a news:
U.S. lawmakers called flight attendants a bitch, and a U.S. court sentenced him to a national apology through the press.
And think it's a decent solution, I guess the writer or director arranged this scene to express that in the face of insults, apologizing is a better solution than conflict, but I really can't agree with this example. Not to mention that the Arab Spring in the United States has caused the civil war in their country to continue, this way of touting Western liberal democracy alone makes me feel uncomfortable, but it also shows how well the United States has done its political propaganda and public opinion work, the microphone of public opinion, We're still not good at grabbing.
5. Lawyer father and daughter
The film sets the prosecution and defense lawyers as father and daughter, defending Pakistanis and Lebanese respectively. It also implies the division of the country's civil war. In fact, it is the war between father and daughter. No matter what the trauma is, the relatives hate the enemy. However, the impulse and hatred blinded the people, and the director made it clear that both of them were burdened with prejudice and hatred. But if they can't be rational, they are doomed to lose both.
In fact, you can understand the division of the civil war in this way. When we meet people from all over the world, or go to various provinces, we will have more or less unpleasant experiences, and sometimes there may be a flash of dark regions in our minds. idea. But if you were to suddenly change that province to a country, and you and he belonged to different nationalities, wouldn't it be a little creepy. If there is another civil war, you were originally two neighboring provinces, and suddenly you are two countries, and you will continue to fight, conflict, and bleed... Thinking about it this way, the civil war is really a national tragedy.
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