I was really having a hard time starting to write an article about
something which I am not very much familiar with. I am like a mere muggle in
Harry Potter's world, someone who does not belong to a family of lawyers and
rarely acquainted with their kinds, just an aspirant to say the least. And I am
as idealistic as other students may be who want to have the prestige of this
envied profession at that.
Overall, the movie was fairly done. Especially, because it was starred by
Matt Damon. (Just kidding!) On the serious note, it started with a student who
was born of a not-so-perfect family who had to struggle to gain education and
work to finish law school. I am a working student myself and I can definitely
understand how it was for him to survive law school. To start off, after
graduating, he worked under a notorious lawyer who taught him to shy away from
the ethical norms of the legal profession and see what the 'real world' really
is. Well, who am I to know what that real world may look like, I am still about
to see it for myself. I watched the movie with so much enthusiasm as anybody
else, who looked up for the famous lawyer-author John Grisham, would do. My jaw dropped at how apparent and
vulgar, the ambulance chasing was, how deals were made between clients and
lawyers, and the money that were involved in negotiations to win cases. That
made me realize that those things might only be a chunk of the real world the
movie was talking about.
Personally, I have encountered some lawyers whom I met at times when I was
not so busy lurking inside my room doing some important stuff. I've talked with
some and was awed with how it was in the field. I came to know a very
straightforward, honest person who told me how things were done, although I am
just speaking about this on behalf of another. But to make the story short, he
said, we are normally idealistic when we are still the new breeds but
eventually, you will be hardened by how the things are done and how it turned
out like some normal routine in the society. I feel though, that this movie, as
an introduction to my study of legal profession, could at least open my mind to
the fact that despite how noble this profession is, at least I think it is,
that there are still some unforeseen occurence and events we may encounter --
an eye opener, that is.
I was very inspired by how he won the case and very passionate at that. I
could only imagine myself inside a spacious courtroom with a group of highly
paid lawyers on a very controversial case. Will I ever have the gutts like Rudy
Baylor? I can never be sure on whatever might happen in the future but one
thing I am sure about, I have the same passion as him. It is just admirable to
see lawyers who are good litigators and passionate at the same time. I couldn't
blame him for having sympathy on his clients. Who wouldn't? Human as we are, we
still have feelings. But in my present state, I don't really know what to feel
if I am in that situation but I can learn through meaningful experience.
To sum it all up, the movie was almost realistically portrayed though I
would beg to disagree at how drastic the decision was to go for another route
than pursuing a possible fruitful career in the field of litigation. Well, I do
respect how it went anyway as we all have different fields of endeavors. Let me
leave you a quote from Rudy Baylor, "What's the difference between a
lawyer and a hooker? A hooker will stop screwing you after you're dead."
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