"Lincoln Lawyer", Douban score 7.8 points. The film has been watching for a long time, but it has not been able to open it, so much so that I am familiar with its poster: a man in a suit and leather shoes sitting on the front of Lincoln's car.
People who like to watch movies online should have experienced whether you will click on a movie, there must be a reason to cut in, there must be at least one point that attracts you. And this movie, for a long time did not mention the interest in watching, always feel that the rule of law this aspect is not my focus, let alone the rule of law in American society.
In the end, there was only one reason to see him: Matthew. Loved his focused and prickly look.
Lincoln Lawyer Poster
After watching this movie, it was still quite shocking: there was a feeling of empowerment. I changed my understanding of the rule of law and my previous view of the profession of lawyer.
Matthew plays a lawyer named Mickey. Mickey was so busy that he worked every day in his Lincoln car to save time. In the eyes of everyone, he is a man who works for money and often exonerates some heinous bad guys.
The movie opens with a plot in which one of Mickey's clients (assholes) is about to be acquitted of the trial, but he owes Mickey 5,000 yuan in legal fees. Mitch told the judge that he had applied for a moratorium because of the lack of an important witness, "Mr. Qian." The had no choice but to let his brother send money to Mickey.
There's also a plot where he gets picked up louis. In the case of Ray, the rich second generation, he found a fake reporter (To) to carry a video camera to shoot a pass, and he spent another 1,000 yuan to buy a videotape to find Louis for reimbursement. Afterwards, he and his own toy eight two account, earned 800 yuan.
So, what kind of lawyer is Mickey? He doesn't care what justice you have, his position is his own reward, it's money. Mickey's ex-wife is also a judicial practitioner, and the reason for the divorce is in the original words of his ex-wife: "I want scum to disappear into the street, but Mickey does the opposite." ”
In this black-and-white place, despite the much criticism, Mickey himself is at ease. Curran, an upright police detective who has always despised Mickey's personality, has to sneer as he passes by the elevator: Defending so many scum, can you sleep at night? And Mitch told him a story: I once had a client who cut off his ex-wife's head and hid it in the refrigerator. The prosecutor was greedy and wanted to plant two unsolved cases on him and make the evidence look like he had done it. Go to his prosecutors and police!
For the first time, Mitch spoke his mind: justice.
Although everyone despised and blamed Mickey, he did not care at all. Mickey felt from the bottom of his heart that in this big dye vat, between evil and justice, fairness and reality, how to balance and ensure your own survival, you have not started at all, and you are the best. He doesn't think of himself as having no conscience, as others say. As he never forgot what his father said, "What a lawyer fears most is the truly innocent client, because if you don't exonerate him, you will feel guilty for a lifetime." ”
By Louis · In the murder case of Lei, the rich second generation, he let everyone appreciate his own means and abilities, showed them what judicial justice is, and let his wife return to his arms. At the same time, he almost put himself in jail.
Louis, a rich man. He is good at two things: raping and killing women and finding someone to take the blame for himself.
The first time they met, Mickey gave Louise's mother a chance to get off the hook. He said you are not fit to stay here, the lawyer's fees are paid to me by your son, and you are not my client. If you need to testify, the prosecutor will subpoena you. This move overshadowed Louis,who was also present at the scene, the family lawyer who was obedient.
Mickey loves money, but he's not driven by it.
Louis pretends to be innocent at first, but Mitch increasingly discovers that Louis is not telling the truth. Start having his private detective Frank investigate him. Lewis found Mickey because he was told that he was a mercenary. But now I find that it is not as simple as I thought. He soon infiltrates Mickey's house and steals Mickey's pistol to kill Mickey's detective Frank.
This shocked Mickey! At the same time, he discovered another fact: another client he had personally sent to prison before was innocent. The real culprit is this Louis.
He thus fell into several difficult situations: the pistol that killed his own detective was his own and had a record; he already had evidence of Lewis's crime, but could not be provided to the prosecution as evidence because of the lawyer's confidentiality agreement; his former client had to defend the current client as much as he could; and the current client threatened Mitch's family to protect himself.
Against such pressure, he did not collapse. First, he asked his black lawyer to help him get an undocumented pistol for self-defense. At the same time, he made a deal with the "Motorcycle Party", a regular customer he often defended, to protect his family.
Louis was punched and bruised in the face when he tried to go to Mitch's house to kidnap his wife and daughter.
Mitch tries his best to defend Louis in court, while privately encouraging Louis's former cellmates to testify to the prosecution to prove Louis's perverted personality. None of these allegations have any impact on the current defense, but they point the finger at another murder case of Louis. A police detective in charge of another case was also specifically brought in to observe.
In this way, Louis was released in court under his strong defense. Before he left the courthouse, he was taken in by the police for another murder. This is Mitch, who can exonerate you and send you to jail with his own hands.
The old detective looked at Mitch doubtfully: I really don't understand you, which side are you on? Mickey didn't speak, and what he really wanted wasn't Louis being sentenced to death. Rather, if the previous party can overturn the case, he must not send an innocent person to prison.
Mickey's clients are often prostitutes, drug dealers, scammers, etc., and the reason why he has always defended the "bad guys" is because he sympathizes with these low-level people. In his world, it is better to let go of ten bad people than to wrongfully accuse a good person!
What is justice? Being able to ensure the rights and interests and fairness of bad people and ensure that they are not framed by stolen goods is the embodiment of judicial justice! Are the heinous bad guys worth defending? Certainly worth it. If a man kills a man, you plant five crimes for him. On the surface, there seems to be no difference, and both horizontal and vertical are death sentences. But if this is the case, the entire legal system will collapse and there will be no good people!
Lawyers defend their clients, that's the way of the art. Not being swayed by the position of secular morality is the greatest safeguard for judicial justice!
I remember watching a movie called "The King of War" before, played by Nicolas Cage. It's the same thing as this movie.
The arms dealer Yuli was a mercenary businessman who was scorned by the big arms dealers when he was young: he felt that Yuli had no political background, no position, no concern for the outcome of the war, and no humanitarian spirit. But as time went on, Yully remained mercenary, and the large arms dealers continued to die in the streets, implicated in political turmoil, and killed by the opposite sides of his own position.
And only Ully survived, even when he was sentenced to prison, he could be rescued! Why? Because he has value: only he can do what a businessman should do.
Which side should the businessman take? Which side should the lawyer take? Perhaps, it is enough to do their part.