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<h1>Author: Zhang Yue Source: Roughly floating like a dream</h1>
Hank Palmer is an experienced and excellent lawyer who specializes in helping the rich clean up the mess they have caused, and in Hank's eyes, there is no so-called justice, there is only eternal interest. It's like a kind of self-indulgence that wanders around the borders, but there is a pride that despises everyone. In the eyes of the world, Hank is successful and indispensable, and Hank has the sadness of seeing through the world, Hank is not happy, and all this stems from his original family, his father's contempt is a knife engraved on his heart, and the successful career and happy life cannot make up for the scars left in his heart.
When Hank was young, there was the rebellion of children of the same age, and the excellence of his brother was in stark contrast to his own inadequacy, Hank was recommended by the prosecution to be punished for community service, and his father, as an impartial judge, insisted on sending Hank to a juvenile detention center for reform. His father not only showed harshness toward Hank in various ways, but even deliberately ignored him, and his father did not attend Hank's high school and college graduation ceremonies. After Hank made a makeover, he went to college and graduated first in his class, becoming a lawyer, and for 20 years Hank was far away from home, not contacting his parents, that is, to cut off the past.
Hank's father is the town's respected old judge Joseph Palmer, a lifelong conscientious style of doing things to win the trust and respect of the townspeople, but this respect has nothing to do with Hank, Hank remembers his father's contempt for himself, he does not want to return to his father's side, face the shame of not being able to lift his head.
Hank, who thought that he had cut off all ties with his father, learned of his mother's unexpected death, which forced Hank to return to his hometown in Indiana, where returning home meant facing his father, and he and his father could not even establish a complete and normal dialogue mechanism, and the indifference between them did not even change with time.
After hastily dealing with his mother's affairs, Hank wants to get out, and he has already boarded a plane when he returns home but receives a call from his brother informing him that his father is suspected of murder. My father was a good judge, but he was involved in murder, which had to be surprising. Returning home, Hank learns that his father is suspected of driving a vehicle to kill a young man named Mark, who was once a criminal his father had tried. When Mark was young, he used to shoot his girlfriend's bedroom with a gun, and Judge Palmer gave a surprisingly light sentence in the face of Mark's cries in court. The first thing Mark did after he came out, sentenced to 30 days in prison, shot his girlfriend, who was only 16 years old, and mark was later sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder. Judge Palmer has been grumpy about the matter, arguing that his own rashness led to the death of a 16-year-old girl.
Judge Palmer had been in contact with him at the supermarket before mark's death, and Judge Palmer's damaged car left Mark's blood, and during the police investigation, Judge Palmer swore that he was innocent. After the case was transferred to the prosecutor for prosecution, Hank found a small white lawyer for his father, and due to the lack of legal ability, Hank had to be in danger. The stubborn old judge always believed that he did not kill Mark, and did not agree with Hank's defense of drunk driving. He didn't want the townspeople to think he was an alcoholic judge, so he questioned his professionalism, insisting that Hank defend himself as innocent.
During the trial, when a surveillance video of a supermarket on the night of the crime was broadcast in the courtroom, Judge Palmer fell into a long silence of deep thought after watching it, and Hank noticed his father's abnormality. After the trial, Hank learned that his father had contracted cancer a few years ago and that he had quietly undergone chemotherapy, a side effect of which was amnesia. Hank, who knows the truth, intends to make a big fuss about the amnesia, but the old judge Palmer does not agree with Hank's defense strategy, if he loses his memory due to chemotherapy, then the cases he has tried in the past year will be questioned, which is a result that the old judge can not accept under any circumstances, that is, others question his professionalism. In the eyes of the 42-year judge, the residents of the town are presented with an image of being upright and upright, and he is unwilling to accept the late festival.
Before dying, he answered his son's question, "Who is the best lawyer you've ever met?", saying "It's you, the best lawyer I've ever met is you." Palmer himself is a good judge, and he and his son practice their own professionalism in their respective fields.