The Devil's Advocate

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-10-17

Languages:

English, German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish

Countries:

USA, Germany

Runtime:

144 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (239218 Reviews)

Director:

Taylor Hackford

Genres:

Drama Mystery Thriller

Cast:

Keanu Reeves Al Pacino Charlize Theron Jeffrey Jones

Writer:

Andrew Neiderman (novel)

Jonathan Lemkin (screenplay)

Tony Gilroy (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Devil's Advocate thematically raises the preposition that 'is winning everything' in the legal profession.Does a lawyer commits the basic sin of Vanity if he believes his job is to win, as Kevin does. Further the movie in John Milton's trenchant speech questions the very notion of righteousness in the post-modern world. Milton's speech rips apart the whole discourse of religion when he presents the inherent contradiction of it. Kevin's dilemma reflects the modern man who accuses the circumstances for being what he is,the culture dominated by making money 'which build egos of the size of cathedral', the question is can one really call what one does 'freely-willed'?. The movie deals with these 'Hamltian questions' in a lawyer's mind.

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