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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023)
Very Watchable, But Should Be a Stage Play
I love the echoey, stark sound of the set....masterful. It shows how these things actually are on occasion. As a former military officer who sat on two courts martial, one was held in a small office, one was held in an actual courtroom that echoed eerily like this set.
It was refreshingly taut, and my gut was taut as well during the entire production.....bravo on that point. When these types of proceedings occur, people's lives are irretrievably altered...whether for good or ill.
And the lack of music was awesome! Real life has no soundtrack......
I thought the lighting was accurate, and the whole atmosphere felt like something large was going to happen....whether that was going to be good...or bad....we don't know....
As a lawyer, I was pleased that the objections and decisions by the court were pretty accurate.
Final verdict? We could all benefit from more productions in this sphere...well done.
Gunsmoke: The Gallows (1962)
Unbelievably powerful story
Screenwriting like this doesn't come along very often. I found myself thinking that surely, somehow, some way, Pruitt won't have to die! Maybe the other old drunk from the store would come forward and confess, which would be a standard scene. Or, maybe Pruitt would suddenly remember exactly what happened, or maybe an eyewitness would show up. Nope. Not to be.
The pure sense of impending doom, and the loss of basically a good man caught up in bad decision making (getting drunk with the loser store owner) will cost him his life.
I can picture Matt placing Pruitt's hat somewhere that he sees it everyday, to remind him that justice is a hard thing to make happen sometimes, and that, just because someone is convicted of a crime, doesn't necessarily make him less than a human being, that everyone deserves some measure of dignity.
In the end, I suppose Pruitt did serve a purpose in another man's life....in Matt's.