The 1996 film "Fear one" was Edward Norton's big-screen debut, for which Edward was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Although this movie is Edward's first contact with the big screen, one person plays two roles, and one eye makes us see another "Allen", and Edward's acting skills have conquered the audience from the beginning from a high starting point.
After talking about the supporting roles, let's look at the protagonist of this movie, Richard Kiel, who is the male protagonist of "Hachiko the Loyal Dog", of course, more people know him through "Pretty Lady of the Wind and Moon". Richard Kirr, a man with a smile in his eyes, like the blue Danube, makes people think of romance just by seeing the name, and in "First Degree Of Fear", the smile in Richard Kiel's eyes disappears, and in his eyes, we see helplessness, sadness, and even powerlessness.
Richard Kirr plays Barrister Martinwell, a former state prosecutor in Fear One. Because he hated the style of his boss at work and felt that he had been deceived and used, he resigned from public office, started his own business, established a law firm, and achieved enviable results with his outstanding talents, becoming a popular figure in Chicago. Martin often appeared on magazine covers, or on television, and more and more people knew about the barrister and his remarkable record on the road to litigation.
However, the superficial scenery could not hide Martin's inner loneliness, as he told the writer who wrote his autobiography after getting drunk in a bar that he had vowed in his resignation that he would use the law to put a wall on the people of Chicago and isolate the lies from the world in which they lived. Contrary to his wishes, he himself became synonymous with lies.
Martin is a sentimental person, he believes that "at the beginning of man, nature is good", and he believes in his heart that everyone who does bad things has their compulsion. He wants to try to tap into the goodness in people's hearts, and then try to expand these goodnesses, and then try to expand them.
Should a lawyer believe in his own feelings, believe in those he feels can be trusted, and then use the law to help them, or should he completely stay out of the matter and use reason and objectivity to face his clients?
In "Heartwarming Office", the intern Li Siyuan's mother gave Li Siyuan's advice that lawyering has never been a sensual profession. As long as you choose the profession of lawyer, then in the work, self, feeling, these words must all be discarded. Lawyers must allow themselves to think less emotionally and more rationally, and put themselves in a neutral position.
I have to say that Siyuan's mother is very reasonable, after all, as long as people are emotional, they are easy to slip into an abyss, an abyss of their own thinking. However, after a person becomes a lawyer, he instantly allows himself to look at things without emotion, and it is really difficult to face his clients completely objectively.
At least Martin couldn't do it, and when he faced what people called "Butcher Boy" Alan, he intuitively felt that this child was "not a bad person" because of his clean eyes, cowardly personality, and no matter how he looked, he was not a murderer.
Allen defended himself that he would not treat Archbishop Rosen so cruelly, after all, he treated himself like a loving father. But how to explain the unbearable sight at the scene of the crime? In the words of lawyer Janet, it wasn't just murder, he was torturing corpses. The archbishop had his arms cut off, his eyes gouged out, his thighs, dozens of knives in his chest, and words engraved on his chest. The scene was simply horrific.
Even so, Martin believed what Allen said: there was a third person on the scene, he ran away only because he was afraid, he did not commit the crime.
In fact, there is a reason why Martin believes in his judgment so much, that is, he dislikes and distrusts his former superiors, and he dislikes his boss Shaughnessy and the archbishop's close relationship. By coincidence, Martin, in another case of his own, knew about the Archbishop and Shawnecht, as well as another layer of ulterior motives, all of which prompted him to prefer to believe in the miserable boy in front of him, rather than in the Shawnethy and archbishop who had already made a mistake, and it was this emotional judgment that led to his final remorse.
No one will understand until the last moment what the movie "First Fear" is really frightening.
But in the face of this fear, Martin, as a defense lawyer, may not be able to answer his own question, why do good people eventually change, why do good people do bad things? He was afraid that Sir Wilfried, barrister in Witness for the Prosecution, could answer him.
People have to give for their own interests, pay labor, pay brain power, while some people want to make others pay for their own interests.
At the end of the film, the lawyer Martin did not dare to face the onlookers and the crowd, chose to leave quietly from the back door, and his lonely back had my heartache after watching the Indian movie "Heaven's Lost Case", in both movies, the two perpetrators used people's hearts to evade legal sanctions, and afterwards proudly showed off their high intelligence. In fact, they have nothing to be proud of, "it's not that they don't report, the time has not yet arrived", I believe that Skynet is restored, how can they miss them?!