report on law abiding citizen
1. INTRODUCTION
The movie “Law Abiding Citizen” changes our perception of the legal process and that process eventually changes to conform to our expectations. The scenario of the blockbuster movie, Law Abiding Citizen, can be explained by these simple questions.
What would you do if a ruthless killer broke into your home and killed your family right before your eyes, then bargained with the prosecutor to receive only three years punishment in exchange for testifying against his innocent accomplice? Would you accept this chain of events as a just system of punishment, or would you go rogue\unprincipled and mete out your own justice, killing the defendants and even the members of the criminal system who encouraged the practice? This is what which happened in this movie.
The basic idea was that a man who had been betrayed by the system decided to teach the system a lesson—from inside jail. The film also takes an incriminating look at the inconsistencies of an overloaded justice system. If I am a regular person and some very wrong happened to people whom I care than I would want pure justice. Clyde Shelton (hero in this movie) doesn’t get justice and he makes a decision to take matters into his own hands. He’s doing what he thinks is right, what he thinks is honorable. In short the Plea-negotiation has the benefits and demerits but there is a need to consider these demerits, if we want to improve the judicial justice system as if it is not addressed properly than there can happen a very dangerous situation.
1.1 THE FILM – PLOT
Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is
The movie “Law Abiding Citizen” changes our perception of the legal process and that process eventually changes to conform to our expectations. The scenario of the blockbuster movie, Law Abiding Citizen, can be explained by these simple questions.
What would you do if a ruthless killer broke into your home and killed your family right before your eyes, then bargained with the prosecutor to receive only three years punishment in exchange for testifying against his innocent accomplice? Would you accept this chain of events as a just system of punishment, or would you go rogue\unprincipled and mete out your own justice, killing the defendants and even the members of the criminal system who encouraged the practice? This is what which happened in this movie.
The basic idea was that a man who had been betrayed by the system decided to teach the system a lesson—from inside jail. The film also takes an incriminating look at the inconsistencies of an overloaded justice system. If I am a regular person and some very wrong happened to people whom I care than I would want pure justice. Clyde Shelton (hero in this movie) doesn’t get justice and he makes a decision to take matters into his own hands. He’s doing what he thinks is right, what he thinks is honorable. In short the Plea-negotiation has the benefits and demerits but there is a need to consider these demerits, if we want to improve the judicial justice system as if it is not addressed properly than there can happen a very dangerous situation.
1.1 THE FILM – PLOT
Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is