Netflix’s “The trial of the Chicago 7” is hauntingly relevant and worth 15 minutes of your time.

Obligatory “I’m not a Netflix shill” comment.

These details got me interested: Sorkin directed a courtroom drama with Borat and HBO Watchmen’s Dr Manhattan (Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). I loved the Lincoln Lawyer and enjoyed Erin Brockvich, so I figured why not.

The film is Pretty Sorkin-y for sure as the ideals and immaterial concept of democracy and justice is directly in contrast with decisions the characters must make. A prosecutor must prosecute a case that increasingly tests his ideals. A defending attorney fights against a judge who plainly throws his own rules around the courtroom. An administration-shifted justice department rebrands what is “right” and throws the book at 7 unconnected defendants as that Justice department seeks to make an example out of them.

These concurrent battles in which entrenched powers of the police state and their weapon it’s definitions of “radical left” are incredibly, scarily relevant to today’s political divide.

I cannot help but feel we live in times where years from now, in a hopefully more progressive age, we look with the same disgust you’ll feel watching this film unfold.

Submitted October 26, 2020 at 11:57AM by BrownRebel https://ift.tt/2Ht1KBQ