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法律人必看的
20
部电影
1
、
《城堡
》
1997
年澳大利亚,英文名:
Th
e Castle.
故事
发生在墨尔本,工人阶级克莱根一家住
在机场附近邻着高压
线的贫民区中,过着贫穷但还幸福的生活。直到有一天他们
接到通知,因机场扩张需要拆除他们的房子,需要他们搬往
别处。敦厚的
一家之主达瑞尔坚信“一个人的房子就是他的
家,他的城堡”
。
拒绝了机场的要求。并召集了邻里一起挡
在推土机的前面。官司一直打上了法庭,因为准
备不足。一
审他们败诉了,却因此结识了热心的退休宪法专家劳伦斯,
< br>在这位老人的帮助下,他们坚持一层层的上诉,终于在最高
法院打赢了这场官司,
一家人保住了自己的“城堡”
。
A Melbourne
family is very happy living where they
do
,
near the
Melbourne airport
(
according
to Jane Kennedy
,
it's
'practically their back
yard'
)
。
However
,
they are forced to
leave
their beloved home
,
by the Government and airport
authorities. 'The Castle' is the story
of how they fight to remain
in their
house
,
taking
their case as far as the High Court
2
、
p>
《死囚
168
小时》
Dead Man Walking
(
1995
)
:
苏珊。
萨兰登奥斯卡奖作品。
Dead man walking
是一个术语,
< br>当死囚走出牢房要执行死刑的时候,监狱看管人员会说一句
“
Dead man walking'
,表示这个死囚将要走上他的最后一段
人生旅程了。这是一部改编自修女海伦。普雷金的真实故事
的死刑电影
,
。她应死刑犯马修,庞谢特的要求开始跟他通
信,后来又到监
狱去探望他,逐渐成为他的心灵寄托对象,
也发掘出马修杀害一对年轻恋人的不寻常真相
。面对村人的
愤怒和受害人双亲的悲痛,海伦以最大的勇气要求他们的谅
解和饶恕马修的罪孽。本来一直不肯悔改的马修在行刑前终
于突破心防真诚忏悔
,安心地走向死亡线。
Starring Susan
Sarandon
,
Sean Penn. A well told story of a nun
(
played by
Susan
Sarandon
)
who
visits and cares for a prisoner on death
row
(
played by
Sean Penn
)
。
The movie raises important
questions about the ethics of the death
penalty versus the impact
of crime on
victims and their families and spirituality and
forgiveness.
3
、
《甘地
传》
Gandhi
(
1982
)
:年轻的律师甘地在
南非旅行时,目睹了同胞所受的欺凌,决心
为维护同胞的权
利而斗争。回国后,甘地提倡非暴力政策,并到全国旅行,
赢得贫苦人民的信任和爱戴。虽然屡遭挫折,他还是坚持用
绝食等手段迫使英
国政府同意印度独立。在印度和巴基斯坦
发生冲突时,
甘地再次
绝食,
使秩序得以恢复。
但此后不久,
甘地却遇刺身亡。本片获得当年奥斯卡最佳影片。
Starring
Ben Kingsley and a cast of thousands.
Directed by Richard
Attenborough. An
epic story of the life of Mahatma Gandhi who
started as a lawyer in South Africa and
who end up liberating
India from
British domination through his policies of
non-violence.
4
、
《东京
审判》
(
2006
)
< br>Dongjing Shenpan
:中国法律
影片,高
群书导演。
1946
年
3
月
20
日,受中国国民政府的
委任,作为远东国际大法庭的中国法官,梅汝璈飞抵东京。
大审判终于开庭了,中国的
审判团遭受了种种挑战和挫折,
面对各国法官们的偏见与刁难,中国法官和检察官们与他
们
斗智斗勇,克服了对美国法律不了解的种种不利因素,在庭
审
辩论中取得了上风。日本右翼势力派刺客行刺梅汝璈,肖
南得知后,立即赶往告知,最终
挫败了刺杀计划。最后的审
判到来了。远东国际大法庭做出判决,以东条英机为首的七<
/p>
名战犯被处以绞刑。
March
,
20th
,
1946
,
dispatched by Chinese National
Government
,
as the
Chinese judge of Far-East International
Court
,
Mei Ru'ao flies over to Tokyo. The
great adjudgement
finally encounters
challenges from judges all over
the se
right-wing plans to assasinate
Mei
,
which is
known later by Xiao Nan and therefore
fails. At last the
adjudgement is
made
,
seven war criminals are
sentenced to
gallows.
5
、
p>
《豪门孽债》又名《命运的逆转》
(
199
0
)英文名:
Reversal of Fortune.
p>
一位富豪被控谋杀妻子,
一切证据都对他
十
分不利,陪审团认为罪名成立,将被判刑。他不服上诉,
並延请一位法律教授出庭辨护,
法律教授通过严密的调查分
折,将一审有罪的判决推翻。
a
brilliant professor of law Alan Dershowitz is
hired by
wealthy socialite Claus von
Bulow to attempt to overturn his
two
convictions for attempted murder of his extremely
wealthy
wife.
6
、
《民事
诉讼》
A Civil Action
(
1998
)
:又名“禁
止的真相”
“公民行动”<
/p>
,获得当年奥斯卡提名,著名律师电
影,约翰。特拉沃尔塔主演,
是由畅销作家强纳森哈尔的名
作《民事诉讼》改编,为一真实故事。
《民事
诉讼》故事叙述一当红律师,因接手一水污染
案件而失去了一切;但与此同时,他才有机
会认清法律真义
及生命价值。他在一无所有的窘境下,继续研究该案,上诉
时间长达八年,最后终于胜诉。本故事的构想始于十年前。
着名作家哈尔受邀
见证许立建律师承办的这件伍本案。许立
建期待哈尔能将他叱吒法院蠃得胜诉的精彩过程
写成畅销
书。当时他是炙手可热、身价不凡的律师;手上已握有足够
证据,非常笃定能打蠃官司。然而情况愈来愈糟,他追寻真
相的同时,金钱、友谊皆
被耗尽,不但一文不名,并负债累
累。
“我眼睁地睁看见一个人
濒临崩溃。
”作者哈尔回忆许立
建本人说:
“那是个无底洞,所有接近它的人都必须接受它
的考验,它考验你的认知、信念、选
择,迫使你检验自我的
价值,
真理的必要性,
< br>这是此案最迷人之处。
”
Jan Schlittman
(
Travolta
)
agrees to represent eight families
whose children
died from leukemia after
two large corporations leaked toxic
chemicals into the water supply of
Woburn
,
Massachusetts
,
even though the case could mean
financial
,
and
career suicide
for him.A well told
story based on Jonathan Harr's book of a
true story involving a class action
lawsuit against environmental
polluters
that involves multiple ups and downs including the
potential bankruptcy of the lawyer
(
played by John
Travolta
)
handling the case.
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、
p>
《一条名叫旺达的鱼》
1988
年
7
月
7
日美国,英文<
/p>
名
A Fish Called Wanda.
< br>在伦敦的一所公寓里,肯、奥托和乔
治正在策划抢劫价值连城的钻石,乔治的美国
情人旺达也参
与其中。肯有点口吃,酷爱小动物,还喜欢养鱼,并且给他
最喜欢的一条鱼起名“旺达”
。奥托作为旺达的哥哥,深知
肯的心思,所以处处与他作对。
他们在作案时尽管气氛很
紧张,但却有惊无险,钻石顺利到手。但在他们作案后撤离
现场
时,有一位老妇人认出了乔治,成为目击者。为了杀人
灭口,乔治指使肯去杀她,结果狗
咬、车撞、箱子……
Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con
artist who uses
every ounce of her
sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels
stolen by her gangster lover Tom
Georgeson. First
,
she
romances Georgeson's
dimwitted but deadly henchman Kevin
Kline
(
who won an
Academy Award for his
performance
)
。
Then
,
to clear the path for her getaway with
Kline
,
Jamie
woos Georgeson's starched-shirt
attorney
,
John
Cleese
——
and
it's Cleese whom she genuinely falls in love with.
Michael
Palin
,
Cleese's former Monty Python
cohort
,
plays a
stuttering
mob flunkey who continually
messes up his one big
assignment
:
killing a little old lady
(
it isn't that he has any
qualms about knocking off the old
dear
;
it's just
that her pet
dogs keep getting in the
way
)
。
A hilarious
movie in which John Cleese plays a barrister
who gets tangled up with a group of
bungling diamond thieves.
Extremely
funny. Only marginally law related but the funny
scenes with Cleese getting caught
dancing in the buff are worth
it.
8
p>
、
《伸张正义》
And Justice for All
(
1979
)
:又名
义勇急先锋,阿尔。帕西诺主演。亚瑟是一名正直勇敢的
律
师,他试图改革司法界贪污腐败的歪风为市井小民伸张正
义。
但是同侪们却对他敬而远之,一位冷酷无情的法官,甚
至以藐视法庭的罪名将他拘禁一天
。一日,这名法官因强暴
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