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Chapter 448 Ordinary Greatness

"Black water?"

Ding Cheng looked at the script that the Participant had just sent, and it was about social themes again?

Focus, Green Paper, and The Washington Post are all works of this company, and they are always committed to the black government.

The protagonist, an environmental lawyer working in Ohio, had just been promoted to a junior partner in a law firm. One day, he received a call from his grandmother’s neighbor, saying that all his livestock were dead, and he suspected that the DuPont Group was buying the land. Afterwards, the land is polluted with chemical waste.

The protagonist who received the call was very embarrassed. As a corporate lawyer, his specialty is defending large chemical companies, which is the opposite of his neighbors. He has even cooperated with lawyers from the DuPont Group many times.

I took the videotape home with me and informed my wife that I was going back home to do some reconnaissance to see if there was anything I could do to help.

When I came to this land, I saw a barren land in front of me, almost like a cemetery, all the animals were dead, and the body organs of the dead animals had various diseases, which was horrible.

I was deeply shocked and returned to the company. I tried my best to argue with the boss and reluctantly agreed. I thought it was just a simple process of submitting some documents and going through the basic procedure of litigation. After all, the company's business is to defend large groups rather than sue them to court.

Unexpectedly, the nod this time actually uncovered the black waters of the DuPont Group for more than half a century.

After reading the script, don't hesitate to take it!
Having watched director Todd Haynes' previous work "Carol", the retro film texture and delicate and moving emotional processing can be called the annual surprise of the year.

Not to mention the leading actress, Anne Hathaway, in the few years since she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "Les Miserables", her acting skills have also been polished and stabilized.

Shawshank Redemption veteran Tim Robbins is also a master looking forward to cooperation.

Unlike the social event adaptation films represented by The Washington Post, which often present group portraits of working together, this script's foothold is precisely on the protagonist.From beginning to end, it tells a complete and focused story about one person's emotional and life transformation.

A hard-working and honest man!
The filming officially started, and the camera just started to pan along the gradient curtain to the conference room. In the entire empty conference room, only the protagonist was patiently and tirelessly placing documents. At the beginning of the meeting, the boss played by Tim Robbins announced The good news about the protagonist becoming a partner in a law firm.

No one could have predicted at this moment that what awaited this outstanding employee would be a rebellious and lonely journey.

The character design is actually a hesitant protagonist who stutters slightly and swings between the system and justice.

Not long after the meeting ended, when the protagonist, a fellow West Virginia rancher with little culture, rudely asked him to act as his defense lawyer for the case against DuPont, his stuttering made the protagonist appear very gentle and polite, explaining to him that he is DuPont's defense attorney is an embarrassing situation for Tennant's opposite.

But when his grandmother's name was mentioned, he began to hesitate, his eyes oscillating between the rancher, the assistant on the side, and the boss behind him urging him to have a meeting.Emotion and reason are embedded in the protagonist's kind nature, dragging him into a dilemma.

The screen turns to the protagonist's family.The wife played by Anne Hathaway used to be a lawyer, and now as a housewife, she still manages the family well.

The grandmother dug out the old photos and told the beautiful memories of the childhood protagonist riding a horse on the pasture without any worries, and invisibly led him to the pasture.

With just a few strokes at the beginning, many details have been used to fully reveal the protagonist's character, and he gradually began to empathize with this kind and gentle lawyer. I have to say that the director's bone-bending palm skills are profound and very gentle.

This is a long battle of one person alone against the world. When the audience has personally entered the life of this little man, they have been placed with him in the cold case of isolation and helplessness, and they have begun to embark on this torment, long, and endless Days of confrontation.

Although the character of the protagonist is warm, the overall atmosphere of the lens language is deserted, restrained, deep and depressing.The cool-toned coarse-grained film style is paired with a soundtrack that is sometimes low-pitched and sometimes delicate and sad, creating a cold and helpless atmosphere and mood.

And the continuously extending and unstoppable time axis throughout the film restraintly defines the coordinates for the entire case process.

The camera goes back to 1975, and three young people ventured into the black waters at night. Their youthful skins were in close contact with the black water, and they swam frantically.After a short time of happiness, they were dispersed by two environmental monitoring staff on the boat, and they still didn't forget to curse them as a bunch of brats afterwards.

It seems that adults are teaching ignorant children a lesson, but in fact no one knows that the adults here are no different from these bear children, living ignorantly in a huge scam under the system.

The protagonist's surprise when he first saw the ranch was nothing compared to the series of shocks that followed.The so-called pasture has become a cemetery. All the cows raised went crazy and lost control and had deformed upper bodies after drinking sewage. They were beaten to death and buried as a last resort.

It is also on this ranch that the protagonist witnesses the incident for the first time, as a witness watching the farmer shoot and kill the last mad cow.For the emotionally delicate protagonist, this is a real emotional touch.

When he officially took over the case and confronted Phil, the leader of DuPont Company, the capitalist finally tore off the mask of hypocrisy and confidence and lost control and cursed the protagonist in public. From then on, the protagonist's career began to bottleneck.

The daunting room full of information became the enemy's first shot at eroding the protagonist's will. However, he persisted in his patience and teased out important clues from the complicated information.

The first thing that completely broke the world view is that the PFOA substance found in the clues has always had a strong virus-causing effect, and tens of thousands of people under the polluted waters were affected, causing unexpected cancer and deformed fetuses. And everything happened with DuPont’s knowledge but deliberate concealment, and bypassed the ignorant government environmental monitoring system.

The seemingly stubborn farmer is just an uneducated herdsman, but he never compromises, and even sticks to his pasture outside the house with a gun in a sick state, which represents the most direct appeal of the proletariat for fairness and justice.

And when he was diagnosed with cancer due to black water, the fire of life gradually extinguished, but his anger was passed on to the protagonist of the witness, and he could only stand on a lonely road of rebelling against the huge interest group without hesitation.

After three years, the case finally gathered enough evidence and witnesses to cooperate, ushered in a turning point in the confrontation with DuPont, and successfully applied for the judicial steps of medical supervision.

As long as this step is passed, everything will usher in the dawn of justice.However, things once again exceeded the protagonist's expectations, constantly eroding and torturing this ordinary lawyer.

Eight years later, the results of the medical monitoring blood test have still not been released. The protagonist suffered a collapse of trust and cold accusations in front of thousands of people who had supported the blood test. He never received a new case and his salary was reduced to In the previous 1/4, the huge tuition fees of the three children caused tremendous pressure on the family, and even the tough wife Sarah began to lose her confidence.

At such a point in time, my wife and boss finally began to re-examine the past ten years.The camera also uses the mouths of the two people and the entire audience to reveal the extraordinary humanity of the protagonist, an ordinary little man:

He is willing to risk everything for a stranger who needs his help. You and I may not understand what that is, but it is definitely not a failure!
(End of this chapter)