Ok, so here is my first attempt at a blog and movie review all in one hit.
I have just finished watching "A Time to Kill" (1996) with a star studded cast of Matthew McConaughey *drools*, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey...the list goes on and on.
My opinion; good movie, good actors/acting, and once I managed to look past Matthew McConaughey with my lustful eyes I got to enjoy the movie and it's plot.
What I liked most about the movie can be summed up by the alcoholic mentor Lucien Wilbanks (Donald Sutherland):
"If you win this case, justice will prevail, and if you lose, justice will also prevail. Now that is a strange case."
If Carl Lee (Samuel L. Jackson) walks free after murdering his daughters tormentors, justice has been served. But on a second look, really, it hasn't. After taking justice into his own hands, he in turn made himself culpable and guilty. Gets me wondering whether justice in the end prevails. I am glad of the end result, but for me this is where the movie sours. The whole black/white equality theme always throws me. It always tends to be so cliche in the ultimate union of the two races and their ability to see past the colour of one another's skin and become life long friends.
One symbol/theme in the movie that has got me thinking, is the relevance of the mickey mouse tattoo on the shoulder of the Klan member. I wonder what the significance was...
It feels like forever since I have been in high school. My brain seems to have melted along with my ability to review/analyse a movie with any sense of credibility.
All in good fun though!
Cheers
ess
