The Suit Film Analysis

In the television show Suits, Mike Ross is a college dropout with an impeccable memory that has allowed him to pass the bar exams multiple times without attending law school. He can smooth talk his way through anything, including an interview for a high end law firm in New York City. Mike went to a hotel to drop off a briefcase filled with marijuana but noticed there were undercover cops looking for him. He slipped into an open room and quickly realized he entered a Harvard law graduate interview. Having passed the bar exam, Mike walks into the interview and wows Harvey Specter, a top-notch lawyer conducting the interviews. Harvey takes a gamble, hiring Mike as his new associate. Both Harvey and Mike cover up the fact that not only did Mike not graduate from Harvard law, but he isn’t a legitimate lawyer. My icons are as followed: a gavel, a justice scale, a brain, a collar and tie, a marijuana leaf and a pair of handcuffs. The gavel was created with a series of heavy weighted lines and geometric shapes. The justice scale was created with more irregular shapes; the arms, chains and bowls. The brain is very intricate, both in reality and
The gavel is an everyday item seen in a courtroom. The scale represents the verdict. The brain represents Mike’s memory. The collar and tie represent the white collar society as well as an inside joke between Mike and Harvey when Mike first started; Mike could never afford a fancy suit or a nice tie and Harvey would always point out that if you work in a law firm as prestige as Pearson Specter, nobody should wear a skinny tie. The marijuana represents how this entire show came to be; all because Mike was avoiding the cops when he was dropping off the briefcase filled with pot in exchange for money and wound up in an interview with Harvey. Finally, the handcuffs represent some of the criminals that Harvey and Mike have put away, but mostly that Mike is a