Being a first-year student at Harvard is difficult. studying contract law is intense.
Having all that under an incredibly scrupulous teacher by the name of Charles Kingsfield? Well now you're going insane.
This guy by the name of heart (whose first name eludes me) is trying his best to study common law and is even joined a study group in doing so.
But he also hooks up with this random girl who turns out later on to be the daughter of the very man teaching him. It creates this whole dramatic ordeal where he can't balance his relationship in his study and they both seemingly fall apart at the same time.
All while thinking this teacher has special interest in him because of his dating of his daughter. Who Kingsfield might not even be aware of.
And in fact doesn't really care about.
It's a story predicated on loads of character development that's supposed to culminate in a final exam for an incredibly difficult 1st year semester.
All with the massive lingering question is it worth it?
Well I can tell you that the movies worth it.
If you like dialogue-heavy stories about law students in the early 70s trying their best to survive the Mayhem that is crunch time studying.
And if you want to see some awkward early 70s romance. Although that whole aspect is kind of ignored for all parts and our main character 'Love' can be kind of a possessive jerk. I get that it's the 1970s and certain standards are kinda different from how we are now but a jerk is a jerk regardless of what time he's in.
Love definitely falls into that. Luckily because of the 1970s movie we're not given any immensely happy endings either.
Everything's let's kind of ambiguous and the audience is meant to just kind of fill in the Gap. Maybe we'll hook up with that girl maybe the whole thing was pointless. It's not the reason you watch the movie.
Now I wanted to watch this movie because of John Horseman. I find hes acting to be very entertaining and if that's the kind of guy you want to see in a film that this movie is right up your alley.
He's a pretty prominent part of it.
He's not the key part of the movie but he's in it just enough to keep you interested and he's given so much energy that it probably works out best that he isn't the main character less we become tired of him.
He plays this incredibly straitlaced but kind of brutal professor constantly keeps his students on Edge by continuously asking them question after question as in regards to various court cases for about the last hundred and fifty (to 400) years and half the time you can't even give him a straight answer as it's all antidotal evidence or the emotional effect of the case on said people.
I swear there's like five different points in this movie where I kept thinking if it was going to turn into a completely different film. And just dropped the pretence of law study and dedicate itself to something else. Like an inward character drama as a bunch of students insulting one another end up leaving school all together or possibly some sort of college raid movie where all the students try to steal the test answers for their final exam.
Not that last one would matter as knowing the answers per-se wouldn't actually Advance you in the final testing.
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