If David Wins, He Dies in Pain… OAC — On A Cross

AMAZON PRIME — GOLIATH — SEASON ONE AND TWO- 2016–2018

You may say “One more justice series.” In fact, it is not really a film about justice but a film about the judicial system, rotten to the core in the USA. The extreme authority of a judge, the only master of the whole procedure of a criminal case from before the trial to the verdict itself. The only interest of a criminal case is the presence of a jury. The jury is in many ways the counterbalancing actor in the trial, the actor who can keep some equilibrium between the judge, the lawyers of both sides, and the witnesses. They are silent but they make the basic decisions: guilt, damages, etc.

Yet this justice system is absolutely unpredictable. Each side can call for a witness at any time provided the judge accepts to summon the said witness. Any side can bring up any piece of evidence they want provided the judge agrees. Any side can ask any question from any witness provided there is no objection from the other side and the judge does not sustain the objection. That brings up now and then a witness or a piece of evidence that the judge considers unacceptable after it has been presented in court. The demand from the judge for the jury to forget about it and not consider it in their own deliberations is just vain and absurd. The witness or the…