The Movie takes place in Mexico City, it starts off with a rich man having to pay for his son's ransom, and that is what the whole movie is about, it is about money and kidnapping. A Body Guard is hired and is being payed very low because of his alcohol problem. He is hired to escort a daughter named Pita by a Wealthy man. His wife took a liking to the Body Guard immediately all because he was an American. The Body Guard had many related skills relating to being a Body Guard, however he had never protected children before. At first the Body Guard does not want to develop a friendship with the little girl but later on he does anyway. The Pita (the little girl/daughter of the rich guy) informs the Body Guard that there has been 24 kidnappings in the last six days, four each day. He is some how psychologically damaged from his past, he dislikes his job so much, he tries to fit in God into his life and wonders if God would ever forgive him (because of his psychological damage I can see why he has a drinking problem). Later on both the Boday Guard and Pita take notice of a car behind them, they both write down the license plate number. Pita is at her piano classes, the Boday Guard is waiting outside, a dog is let loose the Body Guard puts it back in the car from where it came from and all of a sudden he sees the familiar car pull up where Pita was coming out tries to kidnap her but the Body Guard pulls out his gun unfortunately cops get in the way, Boday Guard shoots and kills two, kidnappers kidnapped Pita. Turns out the cops were not on duty and yet still had their uniform on and exactly at the scene of the crime so they were crooked cops. A ransom was offered but no successful, later on turns out the head of the dapartment of anti-kidnapping stole half of the ransom money which was 5 million in total 10 million, but the head stole 5 million of paper not money, the other million went to the Pita's father's lawyer and the kidnappers and in a way he got some money back to help him out of debt but everything was placed on hold because the other half was fake. Of course the Body Guard discovered all of this by going back to the scene of the crimes going around asking questions to witnessess or suspects like a detective. He builds an alliance with a newsreporter named Maria and his old partner during his lasts jobs. The Father committed suicide and he made a deal with the kidnappers, "A life for a life." In exchanged the main Kidnapper's brother and the BodyGuard for Pita, Pita returned safely. Can you actually imagine going through all of that? Of course the movie is a bit exagerated, you just wouldn't be blowing off anyone's head off out of anger. Kidnapping happens every where in this world at any time and any place but rich people are the ultimate targets all because of the economic issues that a person faces that or because of greed.
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Rene wants to become a star, she puts her trust in this one man who makes her think that he will make her a star but he doesn't so she breaks down kills the guy, tricks her husband to take the blame for the murder but he then figures out that she and the guy that she murdered were having intercourse, so he confessed that she did it, and then she confessed and ended up in prison. In reality her husband and then her future ex-husband should have been charged with being an accomplice. In prison she sees Catherine who was committed of a double homicide and meets big mama who is a corrupt warden in that prison. A group of women in prison start gabbing about how the one they loved or cared about had it common except for one, she did not murder her lover but was still in imprisoned by mistake. Rene is being used by Richard in order for her to get out of prison but since Catharine told her that Richard is always on the spot light René tries to make the spot on her. The more fame the better, more money and better title for the lawyer and better for the victim/defendant. This new murder comes and manages to start stealing the entire spotlight until Rene reveals to the newspaper that she is pregnant. What happens in real life was shown in the movie, an innocent woman was executed. What lawyers might do at times in order to win, they might lead the client, meaning that they might help them out in the court by giving them hints on what to say so it would make them look good. During court hearings sometimes surprise witnesses do pop out and objects are used as evidence to help against or for the defendant, but if evidence is being used it has to be within a search warrant and cannot invade anyone's privacy. After the case whether they are guilty or not some murderers or non murderers can become addicted to the fame that came with the trial. There have been cases were people end up idolizing and at times committing the same crime that some famous murder or ex-convict just because they wanted the same attention, these people have issues when it comes to being social with the world around them, most of the time I believe that these behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people, which of course leads to social psychology.People like Rene and Catherine's character need psychological treatment. I am pretty sure that if they were to go to one they would be diagnosed with some time of severe disorder, murdering and then lying and being obsessed with the fame is definitely an abnormal behavior.
By Thursday of every week, you should have completed the activities associated with 1 project. You should blog about your experience as a comment to the blog posting of that particular project. Your blog comment can be largely experiential--tell us what it was like to do the project and what you learned. Products associated with the project and a more detailed analysis of the project will go in your portfolio (see the Portfolio blog post).
Watch one of these movies: http://www.psychologicalscience.com/psylaw/teaching-resources/movies/. Your comment can be just your general impressions and opinion of the movie. For your portfolio you should link relevant course material to the movie. Incorporate information, concepts, and explanation from readings and lecture and relate them tot he movie. In partuclar, explain how psychology and law specifically relates to the story, viewpoints, setting, and/or characters' behavior. Beware that not all legal or psychological content in a movie is accurate content! Be a critical and informed consumer of the information.
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10 Rillington Place
12 Angry Men
88 Seconds
A Civil Action
A Cry in the Dark
A Dry White Season
A Few Good Men
A Free Soul
A Man for All Seasons
A Map of the World
A Night of Adventure
A Passage to India
A Place in the Sun
A Time to Kill
Adam's Rib
Amistad
An Act of Murder
Anatomy of a Murder
And Justice for All
Bananas
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Big Daddy
Billy Budd
Bone Collector
Bonfire of the Vanities
Boomerang!
Breaker Morant
Brilliant Lies
Carrington V. C.
Chicago
Class Action
Compulsion
Copycat
Coquette
Count the Hours
Criminal Court
Criminal Lawyer
Dancer in the Dark
Deep End of the Ocean
Devil's Advocate
Disorder in the Court
Dreamboat
Eight o'Clock Walk
Erin Brockovich
Evelyn
Evelyn Prentice
Eye Witness
Falling Down
Final Analysis
Fried Green Tomatoes
From the Hip
Fury
Ghosts of Mississippi
Going Bye-Bye!
Guilty as Sin
How to Murder Your Wife
I am Sam
I Confess
I Want to Live!
In the Name of the Father
Inherit the Wind
It Could Happen to You
Jagged Edge
JFK
Johnny Belinda
Judge Priest
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment in Berlin
King and Country
Knock on Any Door
Kramer vs Kramer
Lawyer Man
Legally Blonde
Let Him Have It
Libel
Losing Isaiah
Madame X
Man in the Middle
Man on Fire
Manhattan Melodrama
Marked Woman
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Miracle on 34th Street
Mountain Justice
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Murder in the First
Murder!
Music Box
My Cousin Vinny
Mystic River
Night Court
Night Falls on Manhattan
No Other Woman
North Country
Nuts
On Trial
One More River
Paths of Glory
People vs. Dr. Kildare
Philadelphia
Pinky
Presumed Innocent
Primal Fear
Prisoners of the Sun
Reversal of Fortune
Rules of Engagement
Runaway Jury
Sergeant Rutledge
She Couldn't Say No
Silence of the Lambs
Sleepers
Sling Blade
Snow Falling on Cedars
Sommersby
State's Attorney
Stranger on the Third Floor
Suspect
The Accused
The Advocate
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
The Awful Truth
The Caine Mutiny
The Case of the Howling Dog
The Castle
The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Good Mother
The Lady from Shanghai
The Letter
The Life of David Gale
The Life of Emile Zola
The Murder Man
The Onion Field
The Paradine Case
The People Against O'Hara
The People vs Larry Flynt
The Rack
The Rainmaker
The Secret Six
The Star Chamber
The Star Witness
The Talk of the Town
The Unfaithful
The Unholy Three
The Unknown Man
The Verdict
The Winslow Boy
The Wrong Man
The Young Philadelphians
They Won't Believe Me
They Won't Forget
To Kill a Mockingbird
Town Without Pity
Trial
Trial and Error
Unashamed
Veer-Zaara
Vera Drake
Whose Life is it Anyway?
Witness for the Prosecution
Wives Under Suspicion
Young Mr. Lincoln
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