Imagine you're a lawyer, and if you had already maintained 64 defense wins, would you choose to keep the 65th win? Even this time it was a endorsement for a middle school teacher who molested a schoolgirl. Secondary school teachers make obscene gestures at the same time as students describe obscene actions, and can choose to face the suspension of lawyers because they see through the facts and give up defending the other party. It can also be proved that as a minor student, he has made false accusations caused by students' game fantasies and maintained an undefeated record.
How would you choose?
"Devil's Spokesman" begins to lead people to think through this story. There is a most classic line in this story: Vanity is Satan's favorite original sin. It was because of vanity: fame, the house, the more upscale circle of contacts that drove lawyer Kevin, and his wife Mary all the way from Flory to New York. Kevin faces more difficult defense cases, makes more money, and meets more powerful people, but because of these and neglect to communicate with Mary, he slowly drifts away.
But there is a strong contrast in the movie that is impressive.
Mary and Kevin have just arrived in New York, and Kevin faces the first test of his job and begins to prepare for the doomed "Moiz case", if he passes this test, he will be able to stay in New York to work. At the same time, his wife Mary is also renovating her house in New York, and she hopes that her house will be recognized by neighbors and friends, which is also a test of integration into the New York life circle.
The difference is that faced with the same type of vanity temptation, Kevin and Mary take different actions, foreshadowing different outcomes.
In order to do a good job in this crucial defense, Kevin found two carts of legal books, prepared day and night, and finally found a solution, and finally completed the defense and successfully passed the test.
But for the first time, Mary had no job. In order to make his friends and neighbors around him more integrated, even the very simple thing of painting the walls, he loses himself in the various different opinions given by friends and neighbors. Until the end, he gave up the green that he and Kevin both liked, and chose a yellow color that neither he nor Kevin liked. The yellow color didn't make him and Kevin comfortable.
Seeing Mary finally collapse because of emptiness and loneliness, I wonder why Kevin is facing more temptations and more difficult work, but Mary collapses first? Because Mary's self gradually lost herself in the face of strong vanity standards, the final struggle of giving up, allowing the vanity standards given by others to devour Mary.
Although vanity is Satan's favorite original sin, it is still a completely different life to build vanity on the constant testing and control of one's own heart, or to build it on the standards of others, and to let these vanities be at the mercy of this vanity. But to control one's own heart requires a strong inner will. As Kevin ends up asking What Milton (the embodiment of Satan) did to his wife, he said, "It is her free will, as fragile as a butterfly wing, that once encountered by him, she has only the right to obey." ", and finally collapsed.