Alan Sorkin takes the pulse of reality and tells audiences we're going through a new 1968. When the people in the bar were celebrating, how many people saw the blood flowing out of the dark glass? For an immoral trial, the evidence and the verdict are no longer important, only the names are still alive. At the same time, Sorkin still believes in the United States. Through the trial, he expressed his expectations for this country. It can be a villain like Nixon sitting in the White House. Another chance. As the title line at the beginning of the first episode of "The Newsroom" says - America is not the greatest country in the world, but it can be. Sorkin is a true patriot. If "Twelve Angry Men" is the pursuit of fairness and justice, then "The Trial of the Chicago Seven" is about finding the lost justice. The movement has struggled, and it is conceivable that in some other countries, these seven people have long since evaporated without trial. It seems that this film exposes the shame of America, but this film also reveals what America is America, America Why is it great? A vigorous and vigorous civil society, where different opinions are involved, citizens have channels to express their opinions, and the conscience and justice of ordinary people can be relied on at critical moments. "There are only civil trials and criminal trials, no political trials" "I can only say that this is an accidental friendship" "Did you feel that seven demonstrators led 10,000 plainclothes policemen to the streets in Chicago last summer"
"We've seen jury-rigging, wiretapping, gag, and arbitrary judges who hand down sentences, so I'm nowhere near as interested in the law as it was in the early days of trials" "Never experienced my mind being tried" "Outside the window It's the 1960s, it's the 1950s in the window"
"Abby, do you know why you're on trial?" "We crossed state lines with certain ideas, not machine guns, drugs, or little girls, but ideas." "In 1861, Lincoln said in his inaugural address that when the people are tired of In order to exercise their constitutional right to amend their government, they should exercise their revolutionary right to dismantle and overthrow that government. If this speech had been delivered by Lincoln in Linkin Park last summer, he would have been on trial with us."
"As you say, how should your government be disintegrated or overthrown peacefully?" "Our country does it every four years"
There are many thought-provoking lines, and of course there are delightful plots. For example, the two innocents in the Seven Gentlemen silently protested the judge in an alternative way, wearing a black robe to show "respect" to the judge, and wearing a self-made police uniform inside. way to protest. When the Seven Gentlemen listened to the testimony of the prosecution witnesses, they found that all the friends in the previous parade were plainclothes policemen, so he joked, "Do you feel that seven demonstrators led 10,000 plainclothes policemen to the streets last summer." The joke is that although the defendant and the judge have the same surname, they are not related by blood, "No, father." "Please state your full name for the record. My name is Abby. What's my last name? My grandpa's name is Shaboysnakov, but he was a Russian Jew protesting anti-Semitism, so he changed his last name, yours Same surname. What were you doing before 1960? Do nothing, get an American education.”
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