Met Jollin at Vivo to watch Law Abiding Citizen (we had planned to watch Daybreakers initially but changed our minds last night). It was a great movie. Very interesting and clever. And the guy who played the lead character Clyde Shelton, the one whose wife and daughter got killed, is also the guy who was in Phantom of the Opera:
GERARD BUTLER! LOOKS SO DIFFERENT HERE. HANDSOME!(Synopsis)
So the lead character, Clyde Shelton's wife and daughter were killed by Darby while his accomplice Ames looted the stuff in their house. However, Ames gets the death sentence while Darby gets away with only a light sentence. The lawyer that handles this case is Nicholas Rice (Nick). So ten years later, Clyde murders Darby quite brutally by dismembering him EWW and it turns out that Clyde also messed with Ames' death injection chemicals such that it caused him great pain when it was supposed to be painless. When Clyde is convicted, he continues causing the death of a lot of people even when he's still in jail. Clyde isn't doing this for revenge; he's merely trying to prove how flawed the justice system is by showing how a criminal can get away with doing a lot of things merely because of the lack of sufficient evidence etc.
What I found very striking was when Clyde was baffled that Nick thought Clyde was doing it all for revenge. At one point, Clyde said he could've killed Nick's family if he had wanted to. Nick then warned Clyde very seriously not to go near his family.
At that point, Nick was dealing with the possibility of losing the two people who meant the world to him - his wife and daughter. All Clyde had was his own wife and daughter too, and he had lost them to a criminal who got away with a light sentence. In the movie, you see clearly how sweet their daughters are and how much the guys love their families. The murder could have happened to anyone... to Nick's family. How would Nick have felt? Would Nick have turned out like how Clyde was now?
At that point of time I felt as afraid and protective as Nick felt, realised how the people who meant the world to you could die just like that, the vulnerability of life not just of yours, but those your world revolves around. How in just a second, you would never be able to see the people you loved so dearly ever again. It was scary. It felt so real. Those few seconds of the show were the most striking to me.
...Then we camwhored at the third floor. Stupid popcorn kept flying away thanks to the wind. I actually picked them up and threw them into the bin. What a law-abiding citizen.
My headphones, by the way.
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