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Tag Archives: Courtroom
The Fight (2020) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): ACLU lawyers against the ongoing injustices
Documentary film “The Fight”, which deservedly won the US Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmkaing when it was shown at the Sundance Film Festival early in this year, gives us the inspiring stories of several lawyers of the … Continue reading
Innocence (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): A daughter who returns to her shady hometown
South Korean movie “Innocence” is a compelling mix of detached courtroom mystery drama and heated family melodrama. Although the mystery at the heart of the film is a bit too easily solved, the movie still holds our attention as its … Continue reading
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Tagged Courtroom, Lawyer, Mother and daughter, Murder, Mystery, South Korean Film
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Dark Waters (2019) ☆☆☆(3/4): A long, frustrating legal fight against DuPont
As watching Todd Haynes’ latest film “Dark Waters” at a local movie theater on this Wednesday evening, I mused a bit on when I heard about Teflon for the first time. It was probably when I learned elementary cooking during … Continue reading
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Tagged Courtroom, Environment, Lawyer, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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The Advocate : A missing body (2015) ☆☆☆(3/4): A trouble with his case
South Korean film “The Advocate: A Missing Body”, which is released as “Angry Lawyer” in South Korea, feels like an expensive TV pilot episode right from its opening title scene. First, we are introduced to a hero with considerable reputation … Continue reading
Big Eyes (2014) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Behind those big eyes
What is the standard of good art? Or is there really such a standard like that? Mostly shying away from these interesting questions evoked by its fascinating real-life story, Tim Burton’s new film “Big Eyes” takes a rather plain, earnest … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Courtroom, Husband and Wife, Painter, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Unbowed (2011) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A professor protesting against the unfair legal system.
If you do not know much about South Korean society and take a fair trial for granted, you may find the case depicted in South Korean courtroom drama “Unbowed” absurd and outrageous. So did I while watching it, but, to … Continue reading
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : So, where is The Man behind the Car?
Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious movie “Tucker: The Man and His Dream”(1988) curiously reminds me of nice-and-clean biography sets for elementary school students I used to read during my childhood years. In those books, there were always good-looking pictures depicting what great men and women did in their lifetime whenever I turned each page, and, of course, they were accompanied by the story written for them. From these books, I learned how great their achievements were, but I do not think I learned anything substantial about them as the human beings from the story. Of course, those books were well-intentioned for me and other kids, and I liked them. The problem is, they were hollow, and they did not leave me any big impression except those nice pictures.
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