Sleepers Film Analysis

In “Sleepers,” Fat Mancho essentially claims that justice is violence and power outside of the courthouse. Aristotle would likely think that New York City, the setting of this film, is a perverted polis. Locke would probably call the streets of the criminal section a place where most people are in a State of War. Both ancient and modern philosophers have varying views and reactions to this quote. Aristotle thinks the best polis promotes human reason, since this is the defining characteristic of humans. Here, he would point out that reason which is the distinguishing characteristic of humans is not being used. Thus it is an unnatural and perverted polis. Morals are absent in this situation where money or status can give you unfair advantages in court and in the streets of NYC. By saying that “[justice] got eyes” infers that justice is partial. This is not a moral situation or government. Aristotle thinks morals should be the basis of a polis. A polis, according to Aristotle, allows one to live a human life. He says the aim is to live the
It also allows inequality. Locke may wish that the citizens of New York City go back to their most basic and innocent state. To do this they would have to strip civilization of the cloak of history. The notion that one can buy justice is unreasonable to Locke, who thinks that people living according to reason is the best. If he was born in this area of NYC, he would take the freedom to leave with his property. This is because he would not be certain that he could enjoy life and his possessions in the constant fear of invasion by others with more power, money, or status. He would have a hard time living with these rights violators that even when taken into court, and into a state of civil society, it is relatively