Where a District Attorney is framed for the murder of a fellow coworker and ex-lover by his wife.
I love this film, I felt that it could go either way in the end and found myself guessing every which way.
This is definitely a film I would recommend to other people for a good movie night in.
Rafter is telling us that law films are just like every other type in film in that it produces movies that fit within the changing times of society. It takes what how society currently feels about something and turns it out in an entertaining production. When it first started, films showed the law as a system that worked well with an "impartial process". However, as this image of the justice system faded, the movie system produce the same image that society was feeling. Mistakes and prejudices in the system that made it unreliable and untrustworthy.
Without going back and watching some of the older movies, it's hard for me to say whether or not Rafter is on the right track but it all sounds good to me, she seems to know what she's talking about. It's really been interesting reading everything about how things in work in the movies and why it seems to be done all the time.
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