An average movie

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and maybe I should re-watch it at some point. Basically, I always had some mixed feelings about this movie. In fact, it is one of the most popular movies directed by Joel Schumacher (according to IMDb, it is his 2nd best movie only behind ‘Falling Down’) and my wife really liked a lot but I wasn’t really convinced. I mean, I have to admit it, it was a well made court drama with a very strong cast involved (Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Ashley Judd) but this movie displayed some ideas which I found seriously despicable. Indeed, according to this movie, if anyone decides to kill someone else just because they think they deserved it, they shouldn’t be bothered whatsoever. In this case, they argue that since the victims were some hideous child molesters, they got their deserved punishment which was just so wrong on every possible level. In my opinion, it was actually the perfect opposite of Justice. Indeed, Justice should be based on laws and facts and it is absolutely paramount that your feelings should never get involved in the mix. I mean, if you check the internet, it is quite impressive to see how many people actually believe the message displayed in this movie. In fact, if you would ask them what we should do with child molesters in general, apparently, they should be all hanged and shot on the spot but it has nothing to with Justice. Anyway, even though I thought that this movie was really difficult to digest sometimes, it actually shows what a lot of people feel about such matter and, only therefore, it is actually really worth a look.