McConaughey is no stranger to HBO audiences, having received an Emmy nomimation for his time on the hit first season of the premium cabler’s police drama “True Detective.” He won the Academy Award for best actor for his role in the film “Dallas Buyers Club” in 2013. Still, the movie is definitely very decent and although you probably wont hurt your brain watching it, it will entertain you.According to sources, no writer is currently attached to adapt the book, but Lorenzo Di Bonaventura is onboard as an executive producer. It is the lead that most lets the film down, as although McConaughey can definitely act, he's not quite charismatic enough to deliver a lead performance in front of that cast. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Kiefer Sutherland, his father Donald Sutherland, Ashley Judd, Chris Cooper and more, all of which are lead by Matthew McConaughey. A Time to Kill benefits immensely from an absolutely fabulous cast, which includes the likes of Samuel L. While, as mentioned, it's always clear that this movie is meant to entertain you it's always nice to be given something to think about as well. The film, based on a novel by crime writer John Grisham, presents an impossible situation to the viewer and central characters what do you do when justice will prevail whatever the verdict? The viewer and the characters must then make a choice between the law and general morality, and it is there where the film draws it's most interesting plot point from. However, that isn't the most interesting comment that the film wants to make as that plaudit falls to the idea of justice, and exactly what justice is. However, this man is also a black man living in a white supremacy state, and so the film injects a racism theme into it's plot, which is always going to mean that it will have some sort of social commentary within it. The plot follows a man who, after his daughter is raped and almost murdered, decides to take the law into his own hands. Sometimes, films that want to be entertaining and have themes fall down because they're too entertaining and the themes get left by the wayside but A Time to Kill puts its cards on the table from the start, and it's always clear what this film wants to do with itself. It is clear that the film, in spite of having some very potent themes, puts most of it's focus on being entertaining and it's actually not a bad film for it. Now imagine she's white.Ĭourtroom dramas are well known for providing thrilling films, and that is exactly what 'A Time to Kill' thrives on entertainment value. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. And she drops some thirty feet down to the creek bottom below. So they pick her up, throw her in the back of the truck and drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge. It snaps and she falls back to the earth. Imagine the noose going tight around her neck and with a sudden blinding jerk she's pulled into the air and her feet and legs go kicking. They throw them so hard that it tears the flesh all the way to her bones. They start throwing full beer cans at her. And when they're done, after they've killed her tiny womb, murdered any chance for her to have children, to have life beyond her own, they decide to use her for target practice. First one, then the other, raping her, shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. They drag her into a nearby field and they tie her up and they rip her clothes from her body. This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. Jake Tyler Brigance: I want to tell you a story.
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