Lawyers Are People Too
Posted on | June 15, 2008 at 9:41 am | Comments Off
I finally got to watch the last 10 minutes of Michael Clayton the other night, after Netflix sent me a replacement BluRay disc. That one worked.
I usually find it hard to sympathize with lawyers in movies, but George Clooney’s portrayal of a gambling-addicted “fixer” lawyer who finds himself in the middle of a really big moral quandary, made the character palatable. Tilda Swinton’s Best Supporting Actress-winning role as another lawyer who is “forced” to jump over the moral fence was… um… Oscar-worthy. The confrontation between the two of them at the end was worth waiting two days for. The plot was nothing spectacular, or nothing we hadn’t seen before (I’m getting a little tired of class-action lawsuits in movies), but the characters made it interesting.
The HiDef presentation on the BluRay disc was spectacular as usual. I almost like HD better on these character dramas than on the big action pictures, because it allows you to see what’s really going on in the faces of the players.
On the scale of last year’s Oscar-nominated Best Pictures, I would put it above No Country For Old Men (sorry, InfK) and behind Juno. I still haven’t seen Atonement or There Will Be Blood yet.
Latre.
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