Review of The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) by Jluis_001 — 18 Oct 2020

Up to a point I was going to give it an 8, but I decided on 7 because of the patriotic cliches that Sorkin prints on the story.

Especially with the scene of Bobby Seale being bound and gagged in court, since in real life this happened for several days.

I can't help but feel that even though Seale was not a fundamental part of the trial, Sorkin uses him as a manipulative maneuver.

In addition to the fact that despite how the narrative intersperses, to try to give it more agility, there comes a point where the situation is diluted due to repetition.

What remains of the trial until the endind is only to see situations in which the defendants and the lawyers antagonize the judge, and since the judge is only trying to screw them up with his clear lack of judgment and partiality, therefore, the matter becomes somewhat boring, because it comes and goes with the same narrative resource, until it is exhausted.

However, the film remains solid, mostly due to its strong cast.

Notable mentions to Sasha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Rylance, Jeremy Strong and Frank Langella who even though was portraying his character as a dimensionless villain, he still manages to be quite convincing.

In general the film is quite satisfactory, and it's very well done.

I cannot blame Sorkin for anything as a writer, except his clichés but those are passable and he obviously grew as a director after Molly's Game.

One of the best offers in the Netflix catalog this year and in its entire catalog in general.

It's a shame that for every good film we get from them, we get stuffed with 30 bad ones.