At the beginning of the film, just like "Afternoon on a Hot Day", a series of subtitles are typed to tell the audience that everything you see next is true.
This is real. In 1987, prosecutor Sean Kleney, who had never lost a game in his career (interjection: A prosecutor who has never lost before is an essential element of classic American criminal justice cases, such as the heroine of the Simpson case. Prosecutor Clark)'s ambitious 76-count indictment of 20 members of the Lucches family, one of the five largest families in the United States, ended in a massive 21-month lawsuit that left many records in American judicial history. , ended with the federal government losing the case (the prosecution losing is also an essential element of the classic case of American criminal justice).
The story of this film is based on this famous lawsuit, and all the dialogue in the courtroom in the film comes from real court records.
If you thought real courtroom conversations would make the film look serious, dry, and long, like most courtroom trials, you'd be wrong.
Because of Jackie Dinosio, one of the defendants in this case, serving a 30-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, and more importantly, he is the only one of the 20 defendants in this case who did not hire a defense attorney. defense guy.
Jackie, who only has a 6th-grade education, is carefree, and carries a 30-year sentence on his back, has been the target of the prosecution since before the trial. They used champagne, steak, and most importantly, commuted his sentence in exchange for him as a stained witness. Of course Jackie refused, otherwise There won't be a good story later, he said "Fuck you", and before leaving he asked Clyne if he had a brother, Clyne said yes, I thought Jackie would take a paragraph if someone asked you to testify against your brother's crime , how would you like a moral speech, and Jackie said "Fuck him too".
For the next 21 months, Jackie stuck to what he called "a special kind of loyalty from childhood" (to put it succinctly, I think it's loyalty), and he didn't want "Uncle Jackie's kids to go home when they got home." Couldn't see his own father", so he let the jury "find me guilty" and spared his brothers. And his vulgarity, vulgarity, ignorance, and sincerity in the courtroom often caused confusion in the courtroom, but eventually moved the jury, fulfilling the golden rule that "a jury who loves to laugh will not sentence the death penalty", Jackie Defending the interests of his brothers, Jackie also kept his own moral bottom line.
At the end of the trial, the other defendants could go home happily, and Jackie had to go back to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence, a little sentimental in his eyes. But back at the prison, the inmates shouted his name like a hero, Jackie laughed again, very simple and honest. At the end of the film, he humbly muttered "They love me".
Jackie is played by Vin Diesel, who is defined as a Schwarzenegger-style action star who has played "Extreme Agents" and "The Fast and the Furious." If the movie doesn't make him take off the action actor hat, it at least proves that he is one of the most capable acting actors (and I believe the most muscular actor who can act) today. It is said that during the filming of this film, the lines of more than ten pages, this muscular hunk was often written in one go. And in the process of watching the film, you can't see Vin Diesel and his muscles, you only see the middle-aged and fat Jackie, which makes people angry and funny. Checking Wen Diesel's resume, I found that this guy is really a misunderstood character. In 1994, he wrote and directed the short film "Man with a Thousand Faces", which was also shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival. He's never been a big-limbed, simple-minded guy. Wen Diesel said that at that time he didn't really know how to be a director. His main reference was a book called "Making Movies", the subtitle of that book was an interview with Sidney.Lumet.
The director of "Find me guilty" is 84-year-old Sidney. Lumet, who just won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award. He is almost the best courtroom director in Hollywood history. 45 years ago, he made the classic courtroom film "Twelve Furious" Chinese". He is also known for being good at giving full play to the actor's acting skills. Sean Connery, Rod Steige and Al.Pacino have all shone in his films. This time it was Wen Diesel's turn.
The old director's filming plan has been scheduled for 2007. God knows how many "Find me guilty" surprises this old guy will bring us.
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