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Grisham's the Law in a Time to Kill
The movie kind of implies that those sorts of like lawyer tricks that people resent are actually somehow virtuous or can lead to positive social outcomes when applied for the good, which I guess lawyers believe. You see this in a time to kill and I think that's a Grisham adaptation. It's his first movie apparently, his first novel apparently. But at the same time, it's clear Grisham believes that there's like a certain purity to the law that can be accessed by people who are trying to do the right thing,. etc.
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