I'm a frequent visitor to the Cinema. My love for motion pictures cannot be overemphasized. It's my own way of cooling off.
I have seen several movies of any genre in the Cinema. But this one particular courtroom movie, Just Mercy happened to be my favorite at the moment,maybe until a better one much better that Just Mercy is made. For days I couldn't get it off my mind. I could pay to see that movie again.
Just Mercy is a movie that reveals the injustice and greed that flourish in our humanity today which unfortunately has been the norm presently.
The Bryan Stevenson true story played by Micheal B Jordan tells the story of a man Walter Macmillan played by (Jamie Foxx) who was on death row without any proper evidence to back the claim of his accuser. His only crime was that he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Just that a crooked cop looking for a Puppet at that time found him as a godsend.
Bryan, who at that time was a newly graduated lawyer, moves to Alabama to start up a firm known as the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that will strictly seek to help convicts that were wrongly convicted seek justice. He goes about digging up the past in injustice meted out to people who fought tirelessly for Walter. He was met with resignation instead of a hope for justice. Yet Bryan never gave up and Al last proper justice was served.
The most emotional scene for me was where Walter pleaded with Bryan to please get him out of prison that they want to execute him. I couldn't hold the tears as they flowed down my eyes.
To think that such a thing happens in our world today questions our humanity and where it will be in the next few years. But I still have hope that maybe one day there's gonna be Or we humans will have Just Mercy to humanity.
Some take home lessons from this movie
Not everyone in prison is guilty.
It could be anyone of us. Bryan himself made this statement in the movie.
Walking to freedom/ justice might have no friends but as you move on then they will come and this time people with like minds. Because they've seen the impact you're making. This is visible in the movie when Bryan started the Equal justice initiative.
There's still hope for humanity. Clearly the movie was a true life story. So this tells us that somehow humanity is alive.
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