"In all free states, the law shall, inter alia, protect social and individual freedoms from abuses of power by those in power".
This is a sentence written by Robespierre in his book "Revolutionary LegalIty and Judgment", the emergence of law is a major progress in human history, and it is precisely because of the law that there is a guarantee of normal rights for ordinary people, but the law also needs people to enforce, which has a certain test for those in power.
If the people in power themselves have no reverence for the law and arbitrarily challenge the authority of the law according to their own wishes, it is a challenge to fairness, just as the monarch in the feudal society period was even bigger than the law and could ignore the law at will, so that the people's life would be more difficult and the society would be more unstable.
The film "Prosecution Witness" is a suspense movie, and the reversal plot in many places in the movie makes the audience's emotions fluctuate again and again, but from another perspective, we see that the lawyer Wilfrid, in the case of his defender, is in awe of the rule of law, of course, we also see some of his shortcomings.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > the defense of justice will succeed</h1>
Justice is a very positive word in our civilized human society, if it is used to describe a person, it means that this person must be deeply admired by everyone; if it is used to describe a country, it means that this country must also be yearned for by people, that is to say, justice represents the desire of the majority of the people, and having justice occupies an advantage.
Sir Wilfrid in the film was initially reluctant to take on the case because his illness had not yet been fully cured, but later when he learned the specifics of the case, he decisively chose to take the case, why? It is because in his heart Wall is righteous, although at this time he was deceived by Wall, so when the truth came out later, he decisively chose Christine who was on the side of justice.
In fact, seeing this, we can already know why Sir Wilfrid, as a lawyer, can be so successful, I once saw a sentence in a book written by a very powerful lawyer, he said that on the surface the lawyer is defending the facts, but in fact this kind of lawyer is a junior lawyer, and the real senior lawyer will always defend justice.
Wall approached Sir Wilfrid because he was accused of killing a rich woman, and Wilfrid knew that Wall's behavior was not very good, because Wall did not kill anyone, but he did betray his wife, and he now wanted his wife to come out and defend her, so Wilfrid would say: "Let a wife who loves you deeply do not prove credibility for you to be present?" ”
But Wilfrid still took the case, because Wall did not do the right thing, but at the time he also believed that Indeed Wall did not kill, so in the end Wilfrid chose justice, he decided to fight for Wall for justice, and it was in the case of illness, which shows Wilfrid's pursuit of justice as a lawyer.
Of course, you may not be very successful on the road to choosing justice, because there will be many traps and forks in the road, which will confuse you and make you choose a path that is mistaken for justice, just like Wilfrid was deceived by Wall, until the moment when Wall showed a sly smile, the truth was revealed, and Wilfrid was deceived.
There will be many forks in the road in life, and the temporary choice of mistakes does not matter, because as long as you have a goal, sooner or later you will go on the right path, and this goal in Wilfrid's heart is justice, so in the end he chooses to help Christine again for justice, willing to defend her for free.
Imagine wall saying that he was willing to pay a lot of money to let Wilfrid win the case for him, and if Wilfrid really chose to help Wall for money, then he was giving up justice, that is, giving up the reverence for the rule of law, but he did not, because he knew that as long as he defended justice, he would succeed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > grasp every detail</h1>
Details determine success or failure is a sentence that we have known since childhood, especially for some occupations that require more details and need to deal with detailed problems frequently, but there are many people who still cannot pay attention to every detail, so the same position may have a very different performance.
The profession of lawyer is first and foremost familiar with the facts of the case, and the details are particularly important at this time, and Wilfrid does not do a very good job at this point, and we notice that when Wilfrid and Wall investigate Christine together, they receive evidence from a mysterious woman, and they directly affirm Christine's private affair based on this evidence.
But later facts also proved that this so-called evidence was nothing more than a trap carefully arranged by Wall, and if Wilfrid had not fallen into this trap, but carefully analyzed the time and place when and where this evidence appeared, there would have been no later knowledge that Christine was misunderstood before going to re-defend.
This may have a lot to do with Wilfrid's personality, and from the beginning of the film we can also see that he is actually a relatively overconfident person, and he is convinced that he can smoke before he is seriously ill, so his overconfidence ultimately affects his judgment of the whole case.
No matter how much we achieve in a certain aspect, we should pay attention to every detail around us, and we should not neglect the details because of self-confidence, because the details can lead us to success, but it can also carry the truth of things that we miss.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > conclusion</h1>
The film "Prosecution Witness" is an early Hollywood classic, it was born in 1957, even the picture is black and white, but its status in the history of world cinema is still unshakable, of course, we have to admire the screenwriter Agatha Christie's reasoning writing ability and directorial talent.
But these alone may not be able to make it have such a high status, and more importantly, we see the charm of Sir Wilfrid in the movie, although he is a person with some small shortcomings in life, but in the face of justice, in the face of the rule of law, his awe makes us have to worship him and have to like this movie.
We may not be legal workers in life, but each of us is protected by the rule of law, so we have a greater obligation to abide by the law and respect the rule of law.
Thank you for watching, paying attention to me, and learning more about it.