Recently, we read some articles, which are wonderful article to understand based idea about race and justice but I feel those are a little bit far from our realities now, so I would like to recommend a closer book to our lives as source. When we think about justice and race, I think it is one of good way to learn the law case. Law case is clear to show the conclusion and their back grounds( of course sometime not so clear); however, the law should be a kind of symbol of government, justice and fair for people and it is familiar to us. I read and saw the movie of the story is including race and justice in law in America( I read and saw it in Japanese), the title is “A Time to Kill”.
A Time to Kill is a 1989 legal suspense thriller by John Grisham.
The story made me think deeply about “what does it mean that people judge people?” and “what is justice?” thorough the murder happening on racism back ground.
The story: Two white supremacists come across a 10-year-old black girl named Tonya (Rae’Ven Larrymore Kelly) in rural Mississippi. They violently rape and beat Tonya and dump her in a nearby river after a failed attempt to hang her. She survives and the men are arrested. Word spreads of the brutal rape. Tonya’s father, Carl Lee Hailey, seeks out Jake Brigance, an easygoing white lawyer. Carl Lee is worried that the men may be acquitted, due to deep-seated racism in the Mississippi Delta area. Brigance admits the possibility. Hailey acquires an M16 rifle, goes to the county courthouse and opens fire, killing both rapists and unintentionally injuring Deputy Looney, with a ricochet. Carl Lee is soon arrested without resistance.
I was considered by this story that revenge murder was really not good or not, also I was sufferd to think about the relation between racism and the case of murder. There are no right things? or everybody is right?
This story makes us think what a real justice is and makes us the opportunities to think what our justice is. For people who had have hard discrimination from victims, I wonder if it fair and justice for them to be had a decision by justice of court.
It is good source to think about what our justice is for us.
Not only was it a great movie, I also recently saw this movie. Besides the fact that Samuel L. Jackson is an amazing actor, the plot reminded me of the course we are in now. I wish I saw the whole thing though. I only saw part of the beginning and the end. I want to know to mid story. And from what I got, it really seemed that the deep rooted racism in the south affected how african americans were represented in the courts.