If you also guessed the ending

Federico 2022-04-24 07:01:06

The most intuitive feeling of the film for me is that he showed the form of the British court in detail at that time, which is one point. In addition, the processing of the scenes in the film is very simple, the law firm, the courtroom, the station, and only the memories of the hero are left. These simple scenes effectively outline the rhythm of the plot, and you can easily understand the ins and outs of the plot. In fact, this just enhances your participation in the plot as an audience. To a certain extent, you have become a member of the jury. .

In terms of audiovisual language, every time the hero's memory is switched, music is brought in; the solemnity in the courtroom is rendered. It affects the audience all the time.

Moreover, the combination of a harsh lawyer and a mother-like wife is simply a stroke of genius, which makes people feel sweet and has a very life-like atmosphere. The film does not deviate from life from beginning to end, but approaches life to the greatest extent and sublimates it.

In terms of characterization, the film successfully created an image of a lawyer with a knife-like mouth and a tofu heart and an image of a wife who lives by our side and loves you but often troubles you.

In fact, the reversal of the film has always been there. The actor has no money but hires a senior lawyer? Deliberately approaching a rich widow without letting his wife know? The eloquence when facing a woman and the exaggerated performance in court all imply to the audience that this person is lying!

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  • Keith 2022-04-19 09:01:55

    Stunned, since 1957, there is no "reversal" plot that can surpass this movie

  • Elsa 2022-04-19 08:01:03

    I guessed a reversal, that is, his wife may have deliberately made false testimony, but in the last ten minutes it turned around again, and it all corresponded to the real testimony before, from the young woman sitting in the auditorium crying I got up and said that it was the first time I encountered this kind of court trial, and it turned out that the young woman really had an affair with the defendant. As a result, just when I was thinking that the law might not be able to end a beast, his wife gave him a knife.

Witness for the Prosecution quotes

  • Sir Wilfrid: I could probably think better if you gave me one of those cigars.

  • Mayhew: She and her husband had lived abroad for many years in British Nigeria. He was in the colonial service. He died in '45 of a heart attack.

    Sir Wilfrid: Oh, please, Mayhew, not while I'm smoking.