The case of The murder of the mother of Wu Xieyu, the bully of Peking University, makes people sigh, no one can imagine that a good child in the eyes of everyone is actually a murderer, and the darkness of human nature is really more terrible and crazy than we think! Similarly, this movie "Devil's Spokesperson", recommended by the well-known professor Luo Xiang, shows the dark side of human nature vividly through absurd and bizarre stories! The young and handsome Kevin is a well-known lawyer in Florida, with a successful career and a beautiful wife that everyone envies, which can be described as a spring breeze.
In a case in which a secondary school teacher molested a female student, he helped the teacher to successfully exonerate himself in order to maintain the vanity of winning the case when he knew that the defendant was guilty. Subsequently, Kevin came to New York with his wife and was hired by the law firm owner Miguel, unaware that this was a glitz trap for drunken fans. In order to maintain his undefeated record, Kevin lost himself step by step at the instigation of his boss, and successively helped the cruel religious elements who abused animals, the rich man who killed his wife to escape the punishment of the law, and also enjoyed the indulgent life brought about by power, money, and desire. And the price Kevin pays is the destruction of his family and the complete degeneration into the son of satan the devil.
This is the story of a young and promising lawyer who is instructed by an unscrupulous boss to work with his conscience upside down, leading to the destruction of himself and his family. It is also a story in which sentient beings, wrapped in the cloak of religion, cannot resist desire and vanity, and under the temptation of Satan the Devil, they constantly abandon the bottom line of justice and morality, and gradually degenerate and assimilate. The film's ingenious design is profound, not only with a strong religious magic color, but also with a surrealist metaphor.
The boss's luxurious building represents power and money, the boss on the roof enjoys supreme power, and the layers of employees represent class relations. Here every day the traffic is busy and powerful people come in and out, the clothes are fragrant and the shadows are singing at night, it seems to be prosperous and golden, but it is also extremely evil! All kinds of shady transactions are carried out in secret, drunken men and women fall here, Kevin is completely addicted to it and can't extricate himself, but his wife Mary collapses and commits suicide step by step!
Is this a temptation by the devil or a choice of free will? A passage about free will after Miguel Satan's identity was exposed is quite intriguing: "Freedom is what you should do what you want, do what you love!" Overwhelmed by the desire to win or lose, Kevin chose to work and abandon his family and lover. When Mary's mental condition is getting worse, Miguel also persuades Kevin to give up the case and go back to his wife, but Kevin says" If I give up the case and she is well, I will hate her!" "Yes, it was the result of his free choice!
This obsession dominated by vanity made him lose his humanity! Kevin's transformation is actually a grass gray snake line, laying the groundwork, from the son of a devout Christian mother to finding out that he is the son of the demon Satan, representing a complete change of identity! The film cleverly reverses in Kevin's headshot, the demon Satan is reborn into a white-winged god, and Kevin returns to the scene of the original teacher's molestation of the girl trial, this time he chose Mary to withdraw from the lawsuit!
"Vanity is my favorite original sin!" This quote mentioned countless times by Satan the Devil in the movie is thought-provoking! It is not so much that Kevin is seduced by the devil, but that he is seduced by the vanity in his heart and releases the dark side of human nature! The film portrays Satan the Devil as an ordinary person lurking everywhere in the world, and his provocative words provoke and sink into everyone's desire for power, money, fame, and beauty. In fact, everyone is half angel and half devil, born as a human being, we have been fighting against the demons in human nature, and we will fall into the abyss at the first thought! To borrow the words of teacher Luo Xiang, "Human nature cannot stand the test, and the only thing we can do is to stay away from temptation!" ”
The director deliberately sets the protagonist Kevin as a lawyer, a profession that tests human nature, allowing us to see the conflict between professional pursuits and personal conscience, dissecting the inner contradictions and struggles of defense lawyers, and exploring professional ethics and bottom lines. When a lawyer has no right or wrong in his heart, only victory or defeat, it is terrible and evil, fortunately the ending is reversed, Kevin commits suicide and returns to the past to re-choose, giving up defending the beast teacher, which is a victory of professional ethics and the return of human justice!
Finally, I have to say that several major main acting skills exploded, and each one is pleasing to the eye! Kevin, played by Keanu Levis, is a walking hormone, and the vanity and greed of human nature are just right. The big boss Satan played by Al Pacino is very inflammatory, but also very charismatic, and the evil man really makes people head-on! Charlize Theron under the aura of the two male protagonists is not inferior, and the combination of bright and delicate in the early days and the pathological neuroticism in the later stage is also fantastic! Friends who like to study law and study human nature are worth a look!