"The law itself is not a good thing." One of the contents of the teacher's presentation of the topic, I think it is in line with my next thoughts. Some American legal movies come from real stories, and some come from fiction, but it has to be said that the truth and complexity of the law are fully demonstrated from the pros and cons, and from multiple angles.
The protagonist Michel in the movie "Sugar Coated Trap" is the setting of a talented lawyer. His ambition and ambition make him involved in the double oppression of the unscrupulous law firm and the FBI, who ignores the safety of informants. As a sworn lawyer, you must not divulge client information at will. This is an important part of building trust between the society and lawyers. Once the FBI achieves what he wants, his lawyer career will end, which makes Michelle in a dilemma. So he took a different approach, collecting evidence of money laundering and illegal charges by unscrupulous law firms, and let the FBI step by step to investigate the law firm for fraud. Retiring all over, four words to describe the ending of Michele and his wife could not be better. Wandering between the two factions, it is wonderful to preserve your qualifications to be a lawyer and protect yourself with the law. However, thinking about it carefully, Michel is smart. In my opinion, it not only respects the law, but also plays with the law. That's right, it's the word "playing".
Mentioning this, I think of another movie "Four Brothers of Pride and Love" that we saw in class. It was the cruel childhood memories of four boys. After more than ten years, they met the perpetrator again. Two of them became gangs and used gangs to shoot their enemies. The remaining two, a lawyer and a reporter, tried their best to search for evidence to prove the prison guard’s crimes. At the same time, please The bewildered lawyer defended and tried to protect the acquittal of the two brothers in the underworld. The result was as they wanted, but the ending of the four brothers explained at the end of the movie was thought-provoking. Why doesn't the film stop abruptly when the four brothers gather together, but to explain their final ending? I noticed this at the time, and as far as my personal understanding of the movie is concerned, it is the same sentence, the four protagonists respect the law, Played the law again.
"Law itself is not a good thing", what it says is: in a legal structure with punishment as its main purpose, reason and rights are difficult to exist on their own, while non-rational and rightsless legal structures will inevitably become servants of power and superstition. . In this sense, my understanding is that the law can be not only a tool of sanctions, but also a means of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, or in other words, a legitimate and bright way to obtain desired results. In "Sugar-Coated Trap", Michelle sanctions the law firm from the direction of unscrupulous law firms' charges, telling the FBI to first crack down on the law firms behind the gangs, and then slowly wipe out the gangs. Of course, Michele can also get out of the dilemma. Get out, this is really Jin Chan's escape. But I have to admit that Michel, who is trapped in the money laundering chain, is not without legal responsibility. Michel told his gangster clients that they would keep their promises and keep their crimes strictly confidential. He concealed these knowing crimes from the FBI, and played an infernal drama. Indeed, as a lawyer, protecting client information is the most basic. However, using loopholes in the law to help criminals escape the sanctions of the law, I only represent myself. From the perspective of Chinese law, I am extremely disappointed. It's like talking about justice, but stepping on this "justice" and talking about other "justice". Humans are extremely complex animals. Whether a matter is reasonable, reasonable or legal is also complicated. Let's talk about the "Four Brothers of Pride and Love". There is no problem in using legal means to send the former abuser to prison. However, with the help of legal procedures to make the brother who killed the prison guard escape the sanction, its correctness has to be admitted and remains to be studied.
It is undeniable that there is still a large gray area in the current law for people to explain and make tricks. So there is a saying that "the law itself is not a good thing". People are complex and flexible, and laws are complex and rigid. Legal provisions are always inevitably framed, and there are always cases of fish slipping through the net. This is the real law, a double-edged sword. But the existence of the law is of vital importance. In the process of exploiting legal loopholes and opportunistically, people are also beating the development of the law. The final result is: more and more complete laws, and more and more fair justice. This is the truth of Hollywood fiction and law, which brings me the greatest feeling.
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