Daniel was looking at 9 days, but his prosecutor was able to show a compilation of mistakes and misjudgments which totalled 164 (according to her). How is she allowed to do this? That's definitely more than 9 days.
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"She flattened a Dear John with a John Deere." - Douglas Wambaugh
True. Also it was over kill. It almost looked like "America's funniest home videos" rather than something that would prove any point. I mean, we've all got silly and clumsy things we've done that would make us look foolish. This just looked like the prosecutor was trying to humiliate him. No wonder he felt tired of being judged by everyone by the end.
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Clearly, it's in the movie because it's freaking hilarious. But how is it justified in the world of the film? It's not clear it is. However, it's possible that her introducing this is something his "attorney" should object to, and perhaps it wouldn't have been allowed to go forward if his representation had done so. But he has the substitute defender at that point, and the substitute doesn't seem to mount a very vigorous defense for him.
And it's not too hard to see why the prosecutor would want to introduce it: It makes him look like a fool, which is likely to make the judges less sympathetic to him, even if it seems that most of the montage is irrelevant to the criteria they're supposed to rely on in reaching their conclusions. It is, in short, a deft little piece of character assassination.
Afterlife Defense Code, fine print Section 114 §4d, ¶A11.
It's all right there in the text if you care to check.
The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.
Well, there you have it. That's the section I failed to read.
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"She flattened a Dear John with a John Deere." - Douglas Wambaugh
LOL, glad you got the joke. We'll never know the true reason, but my theory with movies is that if the viewer can find a way to justify something in his own mind, the movie doesn't necessarily need to explain. ;)
The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.
Maybe they mean 9 days as in 216 hours worth of material. Meaning, they can select anything they want from any day of his life as long as it doesn't add up to more than 9 days worth of stuff. So, the school bully incident, for instance, may not count as a full day as much as it counts as, say, 10 minutes. Granted, it seems like this approach would take a lot longer to review than what is shown in the film, but maybe it's just the maximum amount of time they're allowed to pull examples from and it's not as if they're actually going to go through every single thing. So, the more days a subject has, the more evidence you can mount for or against him/her.
shareIt's simple. The reason they had the montage of funny bits is to even out the movie and provide some silly laughs to relieve the audience who was caught up in the plot and... basically needed some filler laughs for the helluvit. I loved the two car salesman laughing as he drives off.
Funniest scene in the movie, imo! I especially like when Albert mixes the shampoo with the mouthwash.
But yeah, who knows what allows her to do this. Maybe they're permitted more material to illustrate certain patterns or points. When Albert says he had a "bond" with his father which prevented him from lying to him, she says she can show him 500-some-odd examples of him doing it.
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