How to win in court

Marge 2022-04-07 09:01:06

The film is not so much about World War II history as it is purely about British law, how they think logically, identify and adjudicate. The heroine is a writer, researcher, and Jewish, and she is inevitably very emotional in this matter. She feels that questioning the matter itself is inexcusable, and her lawyer, apparently professionally, told her one thing, emotional useless in court, The more emotional , the more vulnerable to attack, it's harder to prove a thing is true than to prove that a thing isn't true, so they didn't argue that the massacre was true In this case, they attacked the plaintiff's flaws, pointing out that he intentionally distorted some facts he knew for his own benefit. The highlight is the judge's sentence at the back, what if he really thinks so, the implication is that you can say that he has a bad mind, but you can't seem to say that he did it on purpose. Haha, I feel that these people are really very specific in their view of the problem. To form a chain, it must be reasonable, and to distinguish clear motivation and cause and effect, what a clear brain circuit is needed to become a lawyer in the UK! Of course, the final judgment still requires human judgment. The judge considers which situation is more likely to a greater extent. It is true that there is no absolute fact without absolute evidence, but we still have to make judgments.

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Extended Reading
  • Oceane 2022-04-06 09:01:07

    Those who deny historical facts are also presenting evidence for the root evil in their hearts and consciousness.

  • Devonte 2022-04-03 08:01:01

    The cast is strong, and Timothy Spall supported the audience; the book was weak, trying to deepen the denial's backlash, but unfortunately it didn't play out; the director's technique was quite satisfactory and lacked new ideas. It's a politically correct popcorn movie.

Denial quotes

  • Richard Rampton: My lord, during this trial, we have heard from Professor Evans and others of at least 25 major falsifications of history. Well, says Mr. Irving, "all historians make mistakes." But there is a difference between negligence, which is random in its effect, and a deliberateness, which is far more one-sided. All Mr. Irving's little fictions, all his tweaks of the evidence all tend in the same direction: the exculpation of Adolf Hitler. He is, to use an analogy, like the waiter who always gives the wrong change. If he is honest, we may expect sometimes his mistakes to favor the customers, sometimes himself. But Mr. Irving is the dishonest waiter. All his mistakes work in his favor. How far, if at all, Mr. Irving's Antisemitism is the cause of his Hitler apology, or vice versa, is unimportant. Whether they are taken together or individually, it is clear that they have led him to prostitute his reputation as a serious historian in favor of a bogus rehabilitation of Adolf Hitler and the dissemination of virulent Antisemitic propaganda.

  • Sir Charles Gray: Yes, this is a question I have to ask you, Mr. Rampton.

    Richard Rampton: Yes, by all means, my lord.

    Sir Charles Gray: My question is this: If somebody is antisemitic, antisemitic and extremist, he is perfectly capable of being honestly antisemitic, yes? He's holding those views and expressing those views because they are indeed his views.

    Richard Rampton: Well, yes.

    Sir Charles Gray: And so it seems to me, if it comes down to it, that the antisemitism is a completely separate allegation and has precious little bearing on your broader charge that he has manipulated the data?

    Richard Rampton: No, no, my lord. The whole endeavor of the defense has been to prove that the two are connected.

    Sir Charles Gray: But he might believe what he is saying. That is the point. That is why it is so important.

    Richard Rampton: My lord, if we know that Mr. Irving is an anti-Semite, and if we know there is no historical justification for Holocaust denial, then surely it is no great stretch to see that the two are connected.

    Sir Charles Gray: Yes. Thank you. Carry on.

    Deborah Lipstadt: What the fuck just happened? Anthony, what just happened?