I was in a significant movie era when I first watched the Devil’s Advocate. At that time, the city where I was living, my home town Rio de Janeiro, started to have a boom of shopping malls and movie theatres new constructions. So they built a shopping mall one block from the building where I lived. At that time, around my early teens, when I started to walk on the streets without my parents. So that thing was excellent for a movie fan like me. I went almost every week to the movie theatres, primarily by myself. When I saw the opportunity to post about the movie in the CineTV contest I was very happy. You can check the contest here.
Then, they release the Devil’s Advocate with two fantastic actors: Keanu Reaves and Al Pacino. As a good movie lover, I had to watch it on the big screen. This movie was super good that impacted me since then. I married a lawyer, and I still make jokes about the limits of a lawyer to defend the client. The only problem maybe is the end of the movie. It ended “well” for everyone. It was just a learning process for the protagonist, and Satan (Al Pacino) ends the film making a silly joke. But at least it brings lots of ethical concepts. Mainly what lawyers have to face every day. Such as defending people that committed awful crimes and trying to free them from a sentence.
screenshot from the movie available at https://www.primevideo.com/detail/The-Devils-Advocate/0TITHRRVCC3L5A7U1RRR4UHB11
For those who didn’t watch the movie, mainly Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reaves) is an outstanding lawyer that has never lost a case in a small city in Florida. He gets an awful case that he frees a child molester after convincing everyone that it was the victim’s fault. Then a representative of a New York law firm calls him to help choose a jury from a specific case. After the man was considered not guilty because of the jury, he was hired for this law firm, and he moved with his wife to NYC. This firm is coordinated by John Milton, Satan (Al Pacino). Kevin starts to defend criminals and destroy his family since he works too much for the firm and leaves his wife behind. His wife is even sexually aggressed by Milton. Still, Kevin doesn’t believe in her and just considers her a crazy person. At the end of the movie, all the big revelations happen. When we think that the film has an epical lot, it is all a dream, and Kevin is still defending the child molester. So he gives up protecting him.