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Though while watching the movie, the vigilante in it kept bugging me. Throughout the movie, the lawyer built up his self-esteem, a name for himself, and finally found his strength. His lack of expertise was no longer an issue. I enjoyed how Jake Brigance’s character developed on so many levels while working on this case. It was until the jury saw themselves in the father’s shoes that they decided that Hailey was not guilty of the charge. Additionally, perspective was fundamental for the freeing of the defendant. Now imagine she’s white.’ (Time to kill, last statement scene).

Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. A very touching line that the lawyer pronounced at court shows how much racism filled the room, ‘Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. It was as if they weren’t human, not deserving of life, and almost a burden to society. They gave the fair-skinned citizens all the rights, while the dark-skinned citizens had none. The film was also meant for the government in a way since the laws were at fault. Also, throughout the movie, the KKK would find numerous ways to hurt friends and family of Jake Brigance so that he gives up the case. In the end, before Carl Lee came out of court, we could see the African American group holding signs which said, “Free Carl Lee”, while the Klan were holding signs with “Fry Carl Lee” on them. The Ku Klux Klan was a white supremacist group that played a huge role in this movie. Racial inequality, as a very diffused phenomenon in America in the 1920s, was the most apparent subject.

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The movie touched mainly the three subjects of racial inequality, justice, and perspective.

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That way, Brigance touched the jury’s feelings who then decided to free Carl Lee. The statement was the whole rape story told again to the jury even though the reason they were in court was murder, not rape. In the end, Carl Lee was declared nonguilty thanks to his lawyer’s closing statement that mainly relied on feelings. A white unexperienced lawyer Jake Brigance took his defense with the company of his assistant Ellen Roark. Consequently, he is charged with first-degree murder. Out of love, the father avenges his daughter by killing the two rapists in front of everyone’s eyes.

A few hours later, the girl was brought to her house and her father came running home to see the damage that those from the “elite” race made. Little that they knew, the girl was still breathing. They left her on the ground bleeding and continued their way as if nothing had happened.

From that moment, the images the movie shows were quite disturbing the two guys raped the little kid, urinated on her, and beat her up until they thought she had passed away. They looked at her as if they were devouring their prey and got closer to her until she could smell their drunken breath. Little Tonya, Carl Lee’s daughter, went grocery shopping for her mom and on her way home she stumbled upon two grownup white men.

One day like every other day, Carl Lee Hailey, a hardworking African American man and a loving father to his children, went to work and left his wife and kids at home. I know that at the time of the story, white people were more privileged than those of color, but I could’ve never imagined that being white could give an excuse to murder, rape, or violence.

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The only question that kept wondering in my mind is how could one’s skin color choose their destiny. It evoked feelings of disgust, sadness, and fear in me. While watching this film, it made me rethink the whole judicial system.