Want to know what is so good about this movie? Be sure to watch it a second time!

Antonio 2021-11-27 08:01:17

I remember a master director said: When evaluating the quality of a film, it depends on what appears in the camera at the beginning, even if it is a knife randomly hung on the wall, you will find its use later.

When you watch it for the second time, you will find that this film is artistically fine.

The plot may not be so suspenseful, how can a hero fight alone with a group of decent guys-lawyers. In addition, you will also know how these sky-high compensation lawsuits are fought in foreign countries, and what roles do all the people in them play? The huge pressure behind those scenery, and people's inextricability and indulge in this whirlpool.

On the whole, this film made a violent attack on the glorious American middle class!

Another surprise is that the professional and efficient work style and method of lawyers in the film attracted me deeply!

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Extended Reading
  • Sherman 2022-04-23 07:01:50

    Seeing that the horse in the grassland is the person who illustrated the book, very good B

  • Chadrick 2022-03-23 09:01:46

    2008.2.27 Not great.

Michael Clayton quotes

  • Arthur Edens: I just need to make my thoughts a little bit more precise. That's, that's my goal.

    Michael Clayton: As good as this feels, you know where it goes.

    Arthur Edens: No. No, no, you're wrong. What makes this feel good is that I don't know where it goes.

  • Arthur Edens: I look up and Marty's standing in my office with a bottle of champagne - he tells me we just hit thirty thousand billable hours on U-North and he wants to celebrate. An hour later, I'm in a whorehouse in Chelsea and two Lithuanian redheads are taking turns sucking on my cock. I'm laying there, I'm trying not to come, I'm trying to make it last, right? So I start doing the math - thirty thousand hours, what is that? Twenty-four times thirty - seven hundred twenty hours in a month, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours per year...

    Michael Clayton: Arthur...

    Arthur Edens: Wait! Because it's YEARS! It's lives! And the numbers are making me dizzy, and now I'm not just trying not to come, I'm trying not to THINK! But I can't stop. Is that me? Am I just some freak organism that's been put here to eat and sleep and spend my days defending this one horrific chain of carcinogenic molecules? Is this my place?

    Michael Clayton: You promised me, Arthur.

    Arthur Edens: Is that it, Michael? Is that my grail? Two Lithuanian mouths on my cock? Is that the correct choice to the multiple choice of me?