Come What May (I) (2009)
1/10
A Celebration of Ignorance
24 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Did we watch the same movie? Looking at the other reviews of a movie clearly written in crayon by a committee of 10 year old home-schoolers, I can't match what others have written with what I watched. Do they really think that this is how college works? How a lawyer would prepare for a case before any court, let alone the highest in the country? That Patrick Henry is an actual accredited college in the first place? It was particularly depressing, given the current issues with swollen student loans, to learn that someone could walk out of Patrick Henry after 3 years with a $60,000 debt and a piece of paper that literally no one will accept as an academic record. So, let us also lightly brush over the property transfer between fathers that was the 'protagonists' marriage proposal. That the Mother - presumably at the top of her game if she's arguing before the Supreme Court - quits her profession to cook for a wastrel. That the Father was booted from a real college for pious lying, and is still unemployed. Oh, and moot court 'normally' has people arguing for both sides of an issue - but having seen the verbal contortions needed for Patrick Henry to literally create their own competition ladder, for them to then do it wrong should come as no surprise. Prospective authors are often advised to 'write what you know'. To write about subjects and events they have personal experience with. This movie, however, was apparently written by a bunch of people, some of whom may once have heard some legal-sounding words or phrases but clearly had no idea what they meant or how they worked in reality. Nor, apparently, did they have access to Google in order to check things such as basic definitions.
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