The story itself that can be put on the big screen must of course be moving. In order to prove the innocence of the elder brother who was imprisoned wrongly, a younger sister did not hesitate to give up her own life and family. At a young age, she was under the pressure of being laughed at by stunned youths. After going to law school, he worked hard to obtain a lawyer's qualification certificate, and personally investigated the murder case of that year. After 18 years, he was finally freed by his brother. Just the introduction is exciting. Don't say that family love is cheap now, it is precious. How many people can use their own life as a bargaining chip in exchange for the freedom of their relatives? What's more, this is not a simple barter, as if one person's happiness can be exchanged for another person's life as long as both parties voluntarily, but it requires decades of persistence, persistence in giving, persistence in trust. , and most importantly, the persistence of hope. This has completely gone beyond the pure purpose of family affection, but has been sublimated into a kind of faith. Some people may say that this is a kind of paranoia, meaningless obsession is called paranoia, but here the obsession with pursuing justice through the power of love is a kind of belief.
Basically, all the tears that I moved have gone to the story itself, but intellectually speaking, what impresses me the most is the reflection on the legal system that made this story possible. It reveals two things:
First, there is no end to the law. There is almost no doubt about that. Unlike moral principles, the law is not as highly abstract as moral principles, and the law has a clear scope of application and attendant limitations. In response to the ever-changing reality, the law is almost stretched thin, and it is impossible to make precise and appropriate punishments for every behavior that disrupts the order and requires trial. Furthermore, in the process of legal practice, the quality of legal practitioners, including judicial practitioners and defense lawyers, varies. It is inevitable that the legal spirit is not well implemented or even distorted.
In an era or area where legal authority is lost, it is not uncommon for legal practitioners to know the law and break the law. For example, the origin of the story of this movie is that a policewoman in the police station wrongly convicted a repeat criminal with a bad criminal record as a murderer out of self-interest. . And this is just one of countless unjust, false and wrongful convictions, even a trivial one, because my brother is a habitual offender with a lot of misconduct and previous records. According to the theory of criminal psychology, it is natural for quantitative changes to reach qualitative changes. If it wasn't for the younger sister, or because of family affection or understanding, she was so sure of her brother's innocence, then it would only be a matter of time before his brother's unjust death in prison. So the law is unreliable. "Don't use the law as a shield" is of course completely correct, because the law itself cannot be an invincible shield.
Second, the possibility of legal amendments. Although the law has lost its status as an absolute authority, it does not mean that it has lost its rationality. Even, it is precisely because of the inevitable defects of the law itself that it provides the possibility of its revision. With the change of social reality, the revision of the law has been carried out. Even a relatively stable basic law like the constitution, the interpretation of it is not static, such as whether the guarantee scope of the right to freedom includes the permission to spread pornography, etc. Wait. Therefore, the reference role of previous trials is also extremely important, especially in a conservative legal system.
On the other hand, the existence of the possibility of legal amendment, in turn, proves the necessity of abiding by the law, even if the current law is so unsatisfactory and even so absurd. Eleanor in "the Practice" was once confronted with this question: Why do you go all out to defend the other party when you know he is guilty? Where should justice be placed? She replied at the time that it was the necessity of defending the murderer that convinced me of the justice of the law. It is true that the law is for justice, but the law is not justice itself, but only a way to achieve justice. Pursuing justice by following legal channels is the essence of justice, although sometimes it requires paying a great price, such as defending the murderer against one's own conscience, such as knowing that the criminal is in front of you but being helpless because of the lack of conclusive evidence, Such as using 18 years to prove innocence. These costs are undoubtedly cruel, especially the cost of time, which can be said to be the heaviest. After all, how many 18 years can people spend on being squandered like this. However, a price is required, and this is where the law is most pathetic.
It is always easy to challenge and criticize, especially to offend and criticize the system. But the difficulty is to build and maintain it. A legal system that has a wide scope of application and is constantly revised and improved does not fall from the sky, let alone generate overnight. Even after it is established, it will be challenged by changes in reality and internal defects forever. Endless. Therefore, unless the law itself serves evil, the authority of the law is worth cherishing. But what needs to be distinguished is that a bad society does not mean that there is a problem with the law of this society, it is likely that some legal practitioners are disqualified. So against legal practitioners is not against the law itself.
Therefore, emphasizing the mistakes caused by the congenital defects of the law through legal means, rather than simply provoking the disorder of the law with rebellion, is the rarest and most admirable part of this movie event, and it is also the true embodiment of the legal spirit The place.
ps: Sin, I really became a boring person without any suspense. TvT
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