The Whole World is Watching, So This Movie Should be Better: “The Trial of the Chicago Seven”12/15/2020 By Joshua Lancman ‘24 When I first found out about “The Trial of the Chicago Seven,” the new historical drama from screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin, about a historical trial in which police brutality was heavily involved, I found myself envying the producers for having a film that would relate so closely to current politics. The trial, trying the organizers of a protest against the Vietnam War for inciting a riot truly started by the police, relates well to the current events of the long-running Black Lives Matter protests. Any producer who ended up owning the distribution rights to this film must admire their luck just a little bit, at least until they realize that they don’t have a particularly good film on their hands.
By Josh Lancman ‘24 The films of Antonio Campos are about lonely people in surprisingly hostile situations. Whether it is a student in an unfriendly boarding school in “Afterschool” or a tourist in a foreign city in “Simon Killer,” his characters are always distinctly separated from the people around them; shown by the shallow focus – an isolator of the subject from the environment – constantly utilized in his films.
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