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- “The Trial of the Chicago 7” offers an absorbing account, in some ways alarming and in some ways reassuring, of an earlier moment of polarization and violent conflict. It isn’t just like now, but the analogies are enough to get you thinking about what happens in a democracy when state power confronts popular dissent. A loud, chaotic mess.
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Oct 16, 2020 · Sorkin wastes no time throwing viewers into the chaos of 1968, introducing viewers to the key players in what would become known as the trial of the Chicago 7 as they plan their trip to the Windy City to protest the Vietnam War during the Democratic National Convention.
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Oct 16, 2020 · The review. The Trial of the Chicago 7 might be the ultimate movie about how to fight the far right -- an artistic testament to pragmatism and a cry of rage in the era of Donald Trump and...
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By Zaki Hasan
Updated: Apr 9, 2022 12:10 am
Posted: Oct 16, 2020 3:00 pm
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is now streaming on Netflix.
Even before Aaron Sorkin imbued the event with his patented wordsmithery, the trial of the Chicago 7 was a moment in American history rife with cinematic potential for the way it so clearly laid out a “David vs. Goliath” systemic inequity at the heart of the U.S. justice system. Fifty years after the fact, what Sorkin -- in his capacity as both writer and director -- has arrived at is a take on the story that not only ties the many narrative threads, court transcripts, and points-of-view into a cohesive, engaging whole but is also as much a searing indictment of our current moment as it is a look back at one of our most shameful historical episodes.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 arrives on Netflix this week after first beginning development more than a decade ago as a potential project for director Steven Spielberg. While it’s impossible to know with certainty what Spielberg would have done with it (though there are certainly some very “Spielberg-y” flourishes in the Sorkin version), it’s clear that the famed creator behind The West Wing was more than suited to taking the helm, evincing a considerable leap in comfort and confidence here after making his directorial debut with Molly’s Game three years ago.
With his second directorial effort, Aaron Sorkin has produced a thoughtful meditation on a truly nightmarish event, a Kafkaesque distortion of due process that played out in front of an entire country. As mentioned above, even as it depicts a historical moment five decades removed (and even as it takes some understandable dramatic license), The Tri...
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Sep 24, 2020 · “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Aaron Sorkin’s snappy, sloppy re-enactment of a famous real-life slice of American political courtroom drama, understands that the somber and the ridiculous have a...
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- A.O. Scott
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Oct 17, 2020 · Read Matt Goldberg's The Trial of the Chicago 7 review; Aaron Sorkin's new movie for Netflix stars Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Mark Rylance.
Oct 16, 2020 · The Trial of the Chicago 7, about the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the seven participants who were charged by the federal government with crimes like...
Sep 25, 2020 · Brodie’s drawing comes to life, with all its somber weight, in a key scene in writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, a movie as simultaneously entertaining and galvanizing...
