This man made me realize that we can't change the world just by thinking in our heads. We need inner conviction. He taught me how to keep hope. Losing hope is the enemy of justice. He hopes that we can move forward.
After graduating from Harvard Law School, the black Brian set up a public welfare legal aid studio in remote Alabama with the help of his friends, and went to the prison to help inmates on death row who had grieved justice. Prisoner Walter was a bit disgusted at first. He thought that Brian was just a rich kid and would not understand the pain of the lower-class blacks and could not help. After Brian's unremitting efforts, he got close to his family to understand the case, find witnesses, and deal with the prosecutor. , After several twists and turns, finally let him feel wronged. "Justice Mercy" is adapted from a real story. It allows us to see the racial contradictions and judicial corruption in the United States. At the same time, we also see the relentless pursuit of justice by the disadvantaged groups, seeking hope in despair.
Bryan is a great lawyer. He gave up his superior job and chose to help these death row inmates. He would suffer discrimination from white people and fight against the powerful public power system. He shed tears when he saw that he was unable to help the wronged criminal being executed. But he did not give up hope. His friends and his clients gave him trust and support. After several hopes were shattered, Walter still thanked him and encouraged him "It is you who let me and my family regain the truth. No one will take the truth from us. You won't give up, will you?"
Walter is not the protagonist, but his existence gives the whole film a deeper meaning and fuller spiritual connotation. The struggle in despair, the spiritual support for the inmates, the thinking about justice, and the understanding of life, let us see the extraordinary of an ordinary person with flesh and blood. His eyes, expressions, movements, and language expressions are full of tension and thought-provoking.
"Look at those pine trees. They began to grow before we were born. They will continue to grow even if we are gone. We have experienced the bad things we have experienced, but they are still dancing in the breeze. Can you See them?" He did psychological construction with the inmate who is about to go to death, to relax him and make him less painful, and the pine dance lens is exactly what he thinks and gazes during his daily logging work. The picture of this lens is very beautiful and impressive. Not only is the pine tree itself beautiful, but also Walter, who gets inner peace and satisfaction under the tree because of his thinking, is beautiful. He lives by cutting wood. These trees seem to be his friends. He can observe and experience some things in ordinary work and life. Truth that seems simple but often overlooked. These truths have inspired his own miserable life, and now he has used it to warm inmates and give him the courage and strength to face death. When the cellmate sat in the electric chair, he was not ferocious or struggling, and he found peace.
When the situation was swayed by the public power and became extremely unfavorable to Walter, he calmly said to Brian, "If you pull me into the electric chair now, I will walk up with a smile because I have regained the truth." At first, he said. He thought he would be fine, because the truth was on his side, but when everyone said he was guilty, he went to death row for 3 years, and 4 years later, his family members gradually lost contact with him, and he began to wonder if he was true. Guilty, the truth begins to blur. But when he heard the witness tell the truth again in the court, he found himself again and remembered who he was. In this narrative, his language is choked and his expression is painful and firm. This is the psychological damage caused by injustice, and the heavy blow to a normal person caused by injustice. The atmosphere of the whole film is very heavy, and it is even more overwhelming here. In desperation, Walter did not give up hope, he also encouraged Brian not to give up, and justice was not absent in the end. When he was declared innocent, he cried in his arms. The six years of prison life and difficult mental journey finally ended at this moment.
Walter was unfortunate, but he was lucky. His persistence, his perseverance, and Brian's bravery and persistence made him finally get justice. Not only justice, but alive, we should always keep hope, hoping to let us move forward, let us live more tenaciously.
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