Ignorance Fearless "Trial of the Chicago Seven" ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ali 2022-04-21 09:01:55

A true story adaptation. In the 1968 U.S. election year, the Democratic Party will hold its convention in Chicago in August to elect a presidential candidate. Against this background, the Student Democratic Association; Youth International (Ippis); Black Panther Party and many other anti-New Left organizations wanted to hold events in Chicago, but none of them were approved by the authorities, causing the organizers and their followers to protest. dissatisfied. They rallied illegally, sparking clashes that eventually turned into the Chicago riots.

The film tells the story of the seven leaders who were put on trial after the incident. The incident also involved an innocent African-American. Although the film is this year's Oscar hit, but nothing new.

The film has multiple perspectives, leading to multiple positions: from the legal perspective; from the perspective of the white defendant; from the perspective of the African-American defendant; from the judge's; from the jury; from the lawyers; from the witnesses; from the media; from the observers; from the public ; and now in front of the TV, in front of the player, your perspective and position, etc...

However, I personally pay more attention to these seven defendants. What will their lives be like 5, 10 or even 20 years after this trial? Are they still holding on to who they were? Or denied? How did the judgment affect their later lives? What path did they choose afterward? What was the result? . . .

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  • Dominic 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    Like a political essay, arguing about whether it is on the surface or not, without the slightest attempt to penetrate the hearts of the characters, everyone is an empty speech machine that can't stop. This is not a movie, it is clearly a spit meeting that is not funny at all.

  • Cyrus 2022-03-23 09:01:48

    Three and a half. The social movement film of "choosing the head and the tail" fully relies on court (text) drama to effectively promote strengths and avoid weaknesses to some extent. In other films of the same type, it will definitely be written down by the protest march scene. With interspersed and supplementary embellishments, the arrangement of several court trials, the occasional citation of scriptures, and the irony in the lines will not make people doubt Sorkin's script skills at all. However, it's not a big problem if the views are too exposed (this is true for directors such as Spike Lee and Oliver Stone), but the motives of the positions of various forces are too simple and straightforward to portray the motives of the current political east wind, which makes people feel that There is a tendency to impose a point of view on the character. Generally speaking, it is still partly due to borrowing from historical events, the look and feel of "Jasmine's Game" with a slightly smaller layout is still significantly improved compared to the previous one.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 quotes

  • [first lines]

    Lyndon B. Johnson: I have today ordered to Vietnam the Airmobile Division, and certain other forces which will raise our fighting strength from seventy-five thousand to one hundred twenty-five thousand men almost immediately. This will make it necessary to increase our active fighting forces by raising the monthly draft call from seventeen thousand to thirty-five thousand.

  • Walter Cronkite: A Democratic Convention is about to begin... in a police state. There just doesn't seem to be any other way to say it.