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Mckenzie 2022-11-28 23:30:15

Lawyer Ramsey acted as a defense lawyer for the son of a friend and mentor, and all the evidence in the case points to Mike, who killed his father. During the trial, Boone’s true face gradually emerged-mentally and physically torturing his mother Lolita, but the reason for his death was even more confusing. Mike, who didn't say a word, finally asked himself to go to the witness stand and burst into a blockbuster-he killed his father because his father had raped him for a long time, and Mike was found not guilty. Then the plot did not end. The clever Mike didn’t say a word because of his distrust of Ramsey, because as early as the murder scene, he saw Ramsey’s watch on the ground. The plot was reversed again. The truth was borrowed by his mother. Ramsey's knife killed her husband.

The director and screenwriter arranged a series of traps to induce the audience from the unquestionable murder of Mike to the mother's body later-the son just didn't want the mother to bear the prison disaster and replace the charge (this is not in the mother's plan) middle). I guessed that at this time the audience only guessed 50% correctly. The mother meant to kill (in order to get rid of her husband’s abuse and to avoid threats and to protect her son), but it was the lawyer Ramsey who actually started it, who was supposed to be the mother. The defense lawyer became his son's defense lawyer. What neither of them expected was the intrusion and confession of the unknown truth by Mike. If Mike found the watch before he pressed his fingerprint on the murder weapon, it might be that Ramsey had been convicted.

Is Ramsey wrong? He killed the friend and mentor who instructed him to behave in court, and the determination to make can be imagined. Is the mother wrong? After enduring years of physical abuse and mental insult, he saw his son's fate be manipulated. Is Mike wrong? Under the influence of his father, he loves the law and knows how his father treats his mother, but out of respect he has been tolerant; after learning that his mother "killed" his father, he resolutely committed the crime. His only fault was that as a prospective lawyer, he fabricated the fact that his father raped him. In the face of the law and the truth, before destroying his father's reputation and protecting his mother, he chose to protect himself and his mother. Another wise point of the director and screenwriter is that the lawyer and the murderer are set as the same person, and justice and crime are bound together. When there is light, there must be darkness. In front of the law, which is more important, truth or love?

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The Whole Truth quotes

  • Ramsey: At some point, every defense lawyer has to choose between his own need to know the truth and the best interests of his client.

  • [first lines]

    Ramsey: [narrating] When the court officer smiled at me on the morning of trial, I knew I was fucked. They weren't taking bets on this one. Mike had killed his father, Boone Lassiter - left his handprint on the knife - confessed.

    Ramsey: Half my cases had evidence this bad. I just pled them out, got manslaughter and moved on. But this was Mike, and I'd known him all his life. He was going to college and probably law school, and I doubted his mother could survive him going to the penitentiary.

    Ramsey: But I knew Boone, I had that. And I knew enough about the Lassiter household to know that Mike had a defense - if he would just talk to me.