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Nyasia 2022-04-24 07:01:02

At the end of the movie "The End of the World", although the real murderer was finally brought to justice and the misjudged Jin Bo was also acquitted, the story seems to have drawn a perfect ending, but I couldn't calm down for a long time: I was not addicted to the film. The plot could not extricate itself, but questioned the "justice" reflected in the film, especially the procedural justice. We must be alert to the consequences of blind pursuit of procedural justice. According to the ancient Greek democracy, when the jury found Socrates guilty, he refused the rescue of his friends and defended the Greek legal system and procedural justice by death. Procedural justice can obtain the broadest justice, but not necessarily without dead ends. When procedural justice undermines substantive justice, which side should one obey? Jinbo, Andy and Socrates, who are standing in the same blind spot, which one's performance makes us more concerned? There are still many questions left unanswered in the film: Does determining that Jin Bo committed murder has met the US standard of criminal proof "beyond all reasonable doubt"? Although Jin Bo cannot prove his innocence, he has the right to "not incriminate himself". Why should the court and jury convict him? What's more, Jin Bo also provided an important plot of the one-armed man fleeing from his home in a hurry...

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The Fugitive quotes

  • Cosmo Renfro: When I die, I wanna come back just like you.

    Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Oh, you mean happy and handsome?

  • Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: [Poole hands Gerard a set of unlocked leg irons, and he brandishes them in the Old Guard's face] Oh! Wow, gee whiz, looky here! You know, we're always fascinated when we find leg irons with no legs in them. Who held the keys, sir?

    Old Guard: Me.

    Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Where those keys at?

    Old Guard: I don't know.

    Poole: Care to revise your statement, sir?

    Old Guard: What?

    Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Do you want to change you bullshit story, sir?

    [Poole shows the Guard a picture of Kimble]

    Old Guard: ...He might have got out.

    Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: "He might have got out."

    Sheriff Rawlins: What the hell is this? A minute ago you're telling me he was part of the wreckage! Now he might have gotten out?