皇家律师 第三季

silk的第二季和第三季侧重点完全不同。我花了三周时间，一周看完一季，觉得这是我看过最好看的律政剧。第三季一开始以为质量下降了，但是把五个案件都看下来，才发现原来这都是编剧一步步设计好的。用长歌当哭做标题是因为玛莎的最终境遇令我想起了竹林七贤的阮籍。
有一个问题很有趣，就是刑事辩护律师的道德冲突。这个在大学里面，刑事诉讼法的课上老师曾经提及。本科的刑诉法老师本身是一名小有名气的刑辩律师，我不太记得他的原话是什么，但是大意就是辩护律师是为了保障当事人的诉讼权利而存在的。要澄清一点就是，并不是所有的刑事案件律师都会声称被告无罪。刑事辩护分为无罪辩护和罪轻辩护（这在任何一个法系都是一样的），在当事人已经认罪的情况下，辩护人会为其做罪轻辩护，一般可能涉及到自首、坦白、胁迫等法定的从轻减轻处罚情节。在silk中，玛莎代理的案件几乎都是无罪辩护，这是为了剧情需要，无罪辩护比较有drama，如果控辩双方对事实问题都没有争议，仅就法律问题进行辩论，那么庭审过程一定相当枯燥乏味。但是事实上，大部分刑事案件的事实都是相当明确的，可供争论的点很少。尤其在中国，没有陪审团制度，事实认定和法律适用都由法官作出，一些情绪化的，对事实用添油加醋的话很难影响到法官的判断，反而会对律师个人的职业能力和职业道德产生一定的质疑，所以中国的刑事庭审作用并不像英美影视剧中看见的那么重要，一般性法官在阅卷（尚未开庭、听证之前）就对案件有一个大概的判断了。而影视剧为了好看，必然会选取事实争义较大，冲突对抗激烈的案件，律师甚至要充当侦探的角色。而我国的实情是，律师和公诉人所掌握的的案件事实，几乎都在那几本公安、监察证据卷和侦查卷中，律师独立搜集证据很难开展，并且风险很大。
回到本剧中，玛莎之所以每次都做无罪辩护，是因为被告坚持声称自己无罪，并且玛莎也相信他们是无罪的，所以她才能够以大无畏的勇气面对控方和其他被告，据理力争。但是到了S03E04中，事情变得不对劲了，事实上，这不对劲从这一季伊始就萌芽了。在一次与警察局的对垒中失败后，下一起案件先入为主地认为警局腐败，并将该观念灌输给陪审团；给朋友的儿子辩护，她的身份在辩护人与母亲中重叠，在得知被告情绪不稳定时，毫不怀疑怀疑伤害行为的动机（伤害目的？防卫目的？）。到了第四集，玛莎对当事人的无条件信任使得她对瑞德的中立身份产生了怀疑。当她用诉讼技巧使得被告避免了引渡，瑞德的证据和一番话给她当头一击：“这当然很了不起，让别人相信你是个无辜的受害者，但其实一直是你在操纵一切。”由此，玛莎开始意识到自己职业的道德冲突，她在为恶行辩护，目的不是为了维护被告的诉讼权利，而是把黑的说成白的，使一个引发恐怖行为的人逃脱了制裁。一旦怀疑的种子被种下，你就再也斩不断它。前男友的杀人案件，她开始保不准是否应该相信被告一直口口声声说自己无罪的主张。哪怕在法庭上唇枪舌剑到最后一刻，只是出于辩护律师的本能，但是我们都看出她动摇了，这在以前任何一起案件中都是不曾见过的。米奇最后的话语是压垮骆驼的最后一根稻草：“凶手是左撇子，肖恩不是。你输了你本可拿下的游戏。”玛莎犹如走在迷宫中，向左是死路，转身向右也找不到出口。
其实早在S01E04中，玛莎就遇到过这样的冲突，当她作为控方，却发现因为辩方能力问题导致被告可能被错误定罪时，她选择了“控方的目的是查明真相”。而当第三季中同样的事情发生时，她犹疑了，而她两个案子的判决最终都站在了事实的对立面。正如阮籍的长歌当哭，我相信当她说出“who am i”后离开鞋巷，她也不知该去往何处。所以当公交车驶过，不见了踪影的玛莎，她的去处只有前方。
我在知乎上看到一个关于辩护律师为何要给坏人辩护的问题，前面两楼回答得挺好，链接放这儿。http://www.zhihu.com/question/21201386
在本剧中，玛莎和瑞德就像硬币的两面。玛莎是感性而理想主义的，瑞德则是理性和现实主义。第一季的QC之争把俩人的性格和对抗表现的淋漓尽致，最终是玛莎占了上风，正如其他的律政剧那样。第二季，二人开始合作，但是分歧依旧存在。直至第三季，矛盾焦点成为了控辩之争。玛莎相信正义是在于给被告人良好的辩护，而瑞德为了拉拢实习律师而指着受害人间接说出的他的理解，他认为正义是使坏人绳之以法。但是律师是人而不是神，就像他们在一定程度上不能选择当事人一样，他们也不能选择自己总能成为正义的一方。现实的瑞德在每次败诉后总能够调适好自己，该吃吃该喝喝该泡妞的仍旧四处抛媚眼；玛莎不行，太多的成功让她以为自己就是正义化身，而事实却是米奇在庭上说的那样：“还有第三条路，而这第三条路是在法庭上最先被牺牲掉的，你们都知道我说的是什么，因为它不符合，它向来不符合你们的利益，你们都回避它。它叫做真相······你们有权利询问我吗？你们戴着假发，身着长袍，只看见一面······”
事实上，律师本不应该被可以如此沉重的负担。尽管只呈现一面，但是律师仅需呈现这一面就可以了，另一面是控方的责任，而追求案件完整的真相是法官的职业要求。但是现实并不单纯，权力和利益会歪曲掉真相，最后一案玛莎倒在了哪里，是性格弱点，是黑帮势力，还是我之前一直提到的信念动摇？恐怕都有。英剧黑暗就黑暗在这里，这个一年四季淫雨霏霏的国家，拍个电视剧都不给人不给希望，哪怕喜剧都是讽刺性的，但是阴暗的人性恐怕最接近真实的人性了吧。

刚看完，不得不叹一句，最后10分钟的反转，果然是英剧。

什么答案也不给你，什么希望也不提，先让你彻头彻尾地相信，再让你反应过来那些看上去异常坚实的东西根基如此虚妄。

几千年还是一样，未经审视的人生是不值得过的。

可惜经常审视的人生，真是难以让人提起兴趣。

扬起兴冲冲的脸要一天天活得精彩，要每天都收获满满，某种对本质了然于心却能保持漠然的能力实在必不可少。

你要与我肆意跑马，自然少带几本哲学枷锁。偶尔想想。常念俗常。

强烈推荐全部3季！

女生可以得到启发how to be a woman and free. 虽然感觉这里面并没有特别理想的professional woman的榜样...我在现实生活中看到更多非常棒的老总，同时是很好的妻子and/or母亲，英国人反映的现实更冷酷。

大家都可以得到启发how to address the conflict between everyday ethics and work ethics when it happens. 虽然我目前做过的两个行当consulting和science中，ethics issue并没有law和medicine里面那面严重，但是我相信如果每个人都能想想这个问题，the world will become a better place. 对Martha Costello, work ethics overrules every other ethics, which made her a truly extraordinary QC, but also led the eventual crash of her whole belief system (as she was forced out of work due to change in chamber politics). 不过也许目前更可怕的问题可能是很多人work ethics和everyday ethics都偏弱。还记得之前一个项目中客户接受访谈时说“如果你们有良心的话就把这个问题如实反映上去”。相信他们之前也曾经找过其他途径，但是捅马蜂窝的事情很多人都不愿意干，慢慢搁置就大事化了了。（幸运的是上司最终非常有技巧的如实反映了问题。）

silk与the good wife 都是以女性为主角的律政剧，这两部剧最新一集都让人意外的虐死，而这两部剧的风格又完完全全不同……
  两剧的女主角都是律师大牛，强悍的女性角色，但性格完全不搭嘎，Alicia是那种对生活各个阶段目标非常明确的人，非常追求在别人心中的形象（虽然她自己多次否认，但她的家人都看出来了）同时非常清楚自己要什么，也不避讳去争取，从她争取客户挤走Cary，为公司互评向David lee 求情，争取合伙人身份，到离开Will自立门户，虽然看起来温柔，但她很能狠下心来放弃一些东西，不过她脱离了白莲花的形象，被人称为“selfish bitch‘反而更真实，更好看。
   而Martha，某些方面好像和Diane类似，但更虚幻更与众不同，某种程度上仿佛凌驾于办公室斗争之上，而the good Wife 里每个人对权势地位的认可都是非常明显的。
   比如最后一集，为了旧时情人，Martha可以激情澎湃去为他辩解到最后，但我觉得Alicia一开始也许就不会接这种案子。
至于Clive与Will，我能说其实这两人很类似么，哪怕Clive渣了些，’Will的去世又使Will的形象上升了一层，但从某种程度上来说，两人是一个风格的律师。


不好意思在Silk页面下，唠叨这一段，但是好想好想看：Martha对阵Cary，Alica对阵Clive，Will对阵另一个好牛的女Silk，biily对阵Klinda……乱锅炖什么的我最喜欢了……

Accidentally read a review on Silk. It mentions that the justice procedure of the Law of England & Wales is a procedure based on the theory of truth agnosticism, which means it despises the pursuit of the truth. Thus neither of the prosecution and the defence can regard themselves as equalling to the justice itself. What they perform is just to protect their clients' interests. This is the ultimate justice the law can grant to the beings to protect themselves. That is, innocent until proven guilty.

However, this arouses a controversial debate on barristers' ethical duty. Theoretically, a barrister owes duty of not misleading the court. This duty comes first When they represent their clients to seek for a justice conviction. Therefore a barrister is not allowed to represent the client if he or she has the knowledge of the crime commitment made by the client. Otherwise it will amount to contempt of court. What the barrister can only do in such a situation is to cease the representation relationship to protect the justice of the court. Nonetheless, since the law practice industry is the derivative of current economic demand, most lawyers, usually intend to represent clients and maximise the clients' interests by shunning the truth deliberately. This is the formation of grey area.

Back to the series. Season Three explores what the lawyer and the justice system can do when confronting the truth and humanity. Martha Cestello is built to be a figure of justice. This justice more likely represents the sympathy to the weak side, rather than the pursuit of truth. Just like Martha says the justice (for her) aims to providing best defence for the client. She is always doing her job based on a barrister's intuition and her obsession of the truth. But such a basement could be voidable. The case of extradition proves the voidability of the powerless intuition on her not guilty assumption made to the kid who seems innocent when facing an incontrovertible evidence. Another case is about Martha's ex. When she finds out the name list, she is totally convinced that her ex is the murderer and neglects the most obvious evidence that the murderer is left-hand, but Shawn is not. Because her belief has been a little bit conflicted by the extradition case at that time. It is easily to see her emotional struggling here since she has assured the 'truth' that Shawn is the murderer. But she chooses to represent him continuously even this is an obey to both her belief and the enforced obligation posed on a barrister. At the end of season 3, Micky Joy crushes out the truth, but the court gives the direction of not adopting Joy's testimony since it does not comply with the juridical procedures. This is so ironic. When the trial is finished, Martha has completely lost and asked: who am I.

In the end, Martha's disappearance and Billy's cancer seem to be a metaphor that being symbolic for an era curtain that belief of justice is no longer exist in a contemporary law practice. Clive gets the chairman position only because he can ensure the case amount for Shoe Lane, which turns out that the value of justice has become the value of lawyer fee.

English series are so ironic.

有关键情节透露

run for your life 这是mickey给martha最后的忠告

最后一集 终于clive变成了原来放荡不羁爱情色的clive，martha却不再是那个机智的QC

唇红齿白 干净利落的短发 谁说martha是倏尔一变呢 难道忘记了成为QC之后 在第二季里丢弃了的手拉车 和精致的high heels


EP06 keep out


7'
- So you can't say where it was from.
- I was told.
- You were told? Sorry, sorry, sorry. You were told?
When things go wrong, this is how they go wrong.
- I'm sorry?
- This prosecution, these police officers, you.
- What are you all saying?
- We've found our man, now let's make the evidence fit.
Well, that is the wrong way round and this is how miscarriages of justice happen.
It should be "- look at the evidence
- and see who fits it. "
- Is this a speech?
- It's a description of everything that's wrong with the prosecution and police culture in this country.
- Just put your case, Miss Costello.
- You can't be sure it was a 9mm pistol because you need the cartridge for that.
The striations caused by its journey down the barrel of the gun tell you what the weapon was.
So you can't say what this type of gun was,
and anyway, you don't know how rare a 9mm pistol is in the UK
because your statistical database is too narrow.
-And that was all performance.
Ask the question, sit down before it can be answered
and then the question becomes the answer.
It's a dishonest technique.
What I should have said is that Miss Costello is doing her job,
which, unless she believes everything her clients tell her,
means her working life is one big performance.




Jamming a square peg in a round hole.


33'
I knew I was a grown-up from the age of about five,
because I thought all other children were wasting their time - being children.
That's the thing about the Catholic faith.
Teaches you to take life seriously.
You pay attention.
My fifth birthday. I'm trying to find the courage to dive in.
I remember it as if it was yesterday.
It's the last moment in my life
before I started to think about death.
Everybody goes, Billy.
There are three things that matter.
The manner of your going.
What you leave behind.
And where you're going afterwards.






48'
You lose your heart to every case you take, don't you?
Passion, conviction, fearlessness.
All of them admirable qualities,
and all of them qualities shared by DCI Fitzpatrick.
- He's... - The other side of the same coin.
- No. - You only see what you need to see.
Look at the jacket.
- What?
- The blood on the sleeve means Sean's guilty, doesn't it?
Fitzpatrick wins, you lose.
The blood on the right sleeve.
The wound behind the left ear.
The killer's left-handed. Sean isn't.
You win.
- I didn't think... - No, you didn't.
You lost a game you could have won.
- Game? - And there's another game to play tomorrow
and, like all games, it's about winning and losing,
and that means everyone in it is corrupted.
After years a lawyer...
..Finally...
..At the death...
I've stopped playing the game and I told the truth.
I can't tell you how good that feels.
- What are you saying?
- I'm telling you.
Begging you.
Walk away.
No. Run.
Run for your life.
Martha.

EP03 Things don't add up
3季应当合并为一个整体来看，1季着重一个律师的成长，2季着重一个律师的职业技能，3季着重一个律师的职业操守和爱情，这个律师当然是MC。

这一集非常丰富，从PTSD，到天主教义，到伟大的母爱，这种“剥洋葱”式的故事讲述，最终能把故事圆满了，不容易。

1'28 day's already been seized, strip-searched and sentenced.

4'21 I always thought you were a great loss to Parliament, Billy.
I can just see you whipping the backbenchers into voting for some illegal war without them ever quite knowing what they were voting for.

4'40 She's a cross between Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King and a small Rottweiler.

5'12 You have lots in common, you and Elizabeth.
Brave, strong...
- Pale. - Pale.
- Surrounded by men. - Surrounded by men.
Saying no to all of them.

6'10 You can argue about an individual's right to die, but not putting murder on the indictment here would send a huge message. It could open the floodgates to anyone who wants to...finish off a burdensome relative.We, the law,can't allow that to happen.

6'30
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
creeps in this petty pace from day to day
to the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays
have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle."

express a desire to die.

18'39
While none of us can be anything but profoundly moved by the tragedy of the situation that Joanna Stephens found herself in,or by the desperately hard situation that Sarah Stephens faced...no-one,has the right...to play God.

adjusting to her new circumstances.

I take instructions from my client,
whereas you take instructions from a supernatural entity
that can't be cross-examined,
but whose wisdom you ask us to take as read?

Don't ever do what I'm about to.

EP02 U don't Know Football

Jordan成了英格兰足球史上一个出柜的运动员 虽然是在电视剧里 而且只是对自己的律师

Martha这一回第一次表现出比较感性的态度 询问client究竟怎么辩论 Clive和Martha末尾的drama 也印证了Martha对于client的态度

（27‘）实际上这一集讲work and family多一点 上一回Bill的医师讲到他会哭得多一点 这一回就哭了两次 You'll be there forever. 是大家对他的认可 也或许就是他自己对Shoe Lane的态度

Ps. Jack吃的是什么 （¯﹃¯）看起来就好好吃





EP01 Leave Me Alone

一部剧能够成功不仅需要情节的推进 主角的表现 台词的雕琢 很大程度上需要配角的支撑 比如这一集的CW 本来没什么表演（32‘）但是白色窗帷吹拂着 她put the exact date when she lost her chance for motherhood 作为QC 还需要怎么样的drama 怎样的表演呢？

和韩剧相比 英剧真是太简练了 不需要街拍一样的秀服装 每一帧都在推动情节 （48’）比如Ruby看着Shoe Lane 而Marsha从反方向走过来 被告知David losing himself的事实 而dad又恰巧走过来 不难猜测Rudy需要怎样的勇气来告诉他这个残酷的事实 哎……

副线Billy的情节也很灵动 真是内容丰富！

Ps （7‘）我真以为他们会在法庭上做爱呢