In the beginning, in 2008, was
Criminal Justice
, a British BBC series, written by a former lawyer, Peter Moffat
(Undercover, Your Honnor)
with the aim of exposing the flaws in the justice system.
An uneventful young man (Ben Whishaw and his fragile grace) borrows his father's car, a taxi driver, to go to a party.
His path crosses that of a pretty crazy girl with whom he drinks, takes drugs and ends up spending the night.
When he discovers his bleeding body upon awakening, the nightmare begins.
In shady circles
The American channel HBO produced, in 2016, a remake of this fiction.
The character of the lawyer, written for James Gandolfini, hero of The
Sopranos
, before his death, envisaged for Robert de Niro, and finally interpreted by John Turturro, takes on another dimension there.
With his false air of privacy, he lives with his cat, hangs out in underworld circles, and struggles with invasive eczema.
The young man is this time an American-Pakistani student, a character…
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