Morality is reassuring, the law is only the bottom line

Mike 2022-03-22 09:01:52

The proliferation of guns in American society is well known to the world, and school shootings are even more frequent and more touching. In this film, the hero and heroine have been planning carefully for years to avenge the innocent sisters who were killed in the school shooting, and finally got their wish. The case is not badly chosen, and the reasons are not sufficient, but as a film adapted from a novel, it touches the basic structure of the novel, and one cannot help but ask why. Does the screenwriter really think that the harm of cigarettes is really less than that of guns? If so, then the meaning of this novel does not exist, so why put it on the screen? Perhaps because of this, the screenwriter added a warm father's love, a perfect family, a sad wife to the title, so that the audience had no idea what they were watching for the first 15 minutes. The disconnect between the two stories took a while to connect. On, it must be said that it was a failure.
The male protagonist uses John Cusack, a second-tier actor, but it fits the role very well. Just to accommodate him, the original 27-year-old Chuoxue college student in the novel was changed to a 43-year-old middle-aged man, so that the students It took more than 20 years for the school shooting cases of the period to come to fruition, which makes people feel lack of confidence. How much insurmountable sadness will fade in time.
Tobacco and guns are all things that have a negative effect on people and society. Naturally, the government knows their harm, but for some reasons, they are legally produced and sold, and they are very easy to obtain. In the midst of ubiquitous danger, what do you want to do? As far as China is concerned, the problem of guns is non-existent, but what about cigarettes? China is the world's largest producer and consumer of cigarettes. Tobacco companies pay a lot of taxes, but how much money does the state spend to pay for the treatment of lung cancer, pneumonia and bronchitis? The two figures are not equal at all. As we all know, tobacco is more harmful to passive smokers than the smokers themselves, and most smokers allow themselves to smoke in public places, and the harm of their tobacco is not a hundred percent of the profits obtained by the tobacco companies that the buyers consume. What percentage of the tax can be offset?
Speaking of the movie, the jury manipulated by the male protagonist Nicklas Easter played by John Cusack finally made a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, the tobacco group/gun group spent 12 million in a fund, and Attorney Fitch, who won the same 16 lawsuits, lost, in addition to paying the plaintiff $2 million in damages, as well as $400 million in punitive damages (not in this movie). The trap set by the hero and heroine is to make Feige and the tobacco company/gun company lose so badly, but it cannot be said that the law is just, and the jury is just. Although the jurors have one vote on behalf of the people, most of them are still in a daze, either controlled by Fitch or controlled by Nicholas, and most of them lack the correct, kind, caring, compassionate conscience. , some of them are just a fixed mindset of being used to the temptation of newspaper advertisements for decades. Most of them believe that adults should be responsible for their own behavior. It is your personal decision to smoke or not. Since it is your own choice, you should not. It's time to sue the tobacco companies, and these are the people who were addicted to smoking before the age of 18. They don't know who is responsible for them, and even if someone points it out, they still don't feel they are guilty.
That's why I say that the novelist's use of tobacco as the background of the book is deliberate, and the film writer's change of tobacco into a gun undermines the author's intention and good intentions. That's why I say -- morality is reassuring, and the law is just the bottom line. The education we receive determines our thoughts, and our conscience is determined by thinking and examining our hearts. These moral norms control our principles of life, and we are right or wrong. And the law is only the last bottom line of a civilized society. The knowledge of moral conscience has been given up, and the law is allowed to make the final judgment. And this judgment is controlled in people's hearts.

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Extended Reading
  • Dayana 2022-03-27 09:01:07

    JC really is my dish! I wonder if the civilian investigation team in the Qian Yunhui case can get some inspiration from this.

  • Alden 2022-04-22 07:01:31

    A jury can play like that. . . . It's not easy for a lawyer, not afraid of a god-like opponent, but afraid of the jury of XX. . .

Runaway Jury quotes

  • Rankin Fitch: ...the thing of it is, I don't give a shit. What's more... I never have.

  • Frank Herrera: [On nominating Herman for foreman] But...

    Eddie Weese: But he's blind, man. So what? So is justice, right?