the trial of the chicago 7

Thank you, 2020 needed this 

By IMDB-blackoutH 

21 October 2020 

When 2020 seemed lost, The Trial of the Chicago 7 comes to the rescue... Finally Netflix does it again for movies, with some much "spam" coming in these days we needed this movie.. A story based on true events that took place in Chicago in 1968, where a group of individuals spoke up and protested again the Vietnam War during the Democratic National Convention.These supposed pacific protests took a dark turn and several police aggressions painted this violent scenario, as in so many other historical occasions. The movie takes most if its time depicting the "circus" (for lack of a better word to describe it) that the 5 month trial of the major 7 figures of this riot was, and the situations that were dealt by them while being defended - from a biased judge, to a cheating prosecution, and of course a not so easy to control set of defendants. We witness once more the dark side and the hipocrisy of what was once claimed the country of opportunities and freedom, we see oppression and false sense of morality taking over and as it always happens, lives simply vanishing in the name of pointless wars. 

The movie is simply fantastic, from a direction standpoint its dynamic, you feel energized throughout the entire film and it keeps you engaged to the story, mostly because of the charisma of the characters, and of course another big factor that contributes to this is the actual cast, from the fantastic Sacha Baron Cohen, to Mark Rylance, Eddie Redmayne, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II basically an A-list cast that drove this movie to the high quality standards it deserves. While it is a drama, it has a lot of comedic aspects added to it that kind of ease the tention and the serioussness of the topics discussed, but don't be fooled, I'm not an American national so discussing these topics can always be a sensitive subject, however the message is clear as history repeats itself, people fighting for basic rights of freedom and against a rotten and flawed system are marked as anti-americans while the representatives of the self procclaimed free country are themselves the oppressors and the responsibles for thousands of casualties of their own nationals. But politics gives room to a major discussion, so not to deviate the attention of the movies, here's wy it's one of the best for this year: it's bold, gets you familiarized with an important event in American history, reminds you that fights against injustice started a long time ago, it's very well acted and written and for sure a source of pure entertainment which might be hard to find these days in movies! 

I suspect we are starting to enter the award season and this might be an Academy Award front runner, with all that is been going on in the world, I do hope we will still be able to celebrate movies and specially the ones that impact us positevely and make us think about important subjects that we prefer to ignore.

 

 

VIDEO - THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 - 2020 - 9/10 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1070874/