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THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
The Holy Bible has it clear. Everything that comes from above, from the Creator, is good. Everything, that comes from below, from the old evil serpent called Satan, is bad.
These two extreme points have been depicted throughout the movie history in a variety of ways. An angel coming down from Heaven in a human body, the Devil leaving gates of the realm of sinners in human disguise... I can't remember the Devil in a body of a lawyer. But my memory does not reach very far and so I might be mislead by my own incompetence in this field.
THE AIM
The plan of the ruler of the infernal kingdom was much more elaborate than a plan to conquer the world just by being a lawyer. After all, reaching the worldīs throne by defending people would take too much time.
Remember, the movie Evil often takes on a disguise of a hideous blood-thirsty monstrosity and thus is able to reach its aims faster (if there isn't any hero in the way - and that happens most of the time).
In the Devil's Advocate, the Evil chose a form of a boss, who runs a law firm.
THE WAY HOW TO REACH THE AIM
The Devil's opponent - or maybe a victim - is a good defending attorney Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) who not only is good thanks to that he stands on the other side of moral scale than the Devil does, but also is good thanks to his abilities as an attorney. These abilities, respectively a possibility to use them more accurately (and for a more accurate pay) attracts his attention and he moves with his pretty wife, Mary-Ann, to New York to work for the company that has invited him to join.
Thus, he meets the master of all evil, John Milton (Al Pacino). Thatīs the moment when everything in his life starts screwing up big time. Everyone starts behaving really strangely, he seems to live two lives at the same time, seeing through the dividing wall only time to tim, without knowing of which one of the two lives is real and which is only a nightmarish illusion, both of them looking equally senseless. The explanation comes when he thinks everything is clear. And yet he learns that no simple explanation fits the things he has gone through more accurately than the one he learns in the end.
The ending is odd and unawaited, though not without parts one knows from other movies. Nevertheless, it is one hell of a fine ending...
Again, due to that this movie is quite a recent one, it has been impossible to get the script to this movie. If there's anyone more succesful, please let me know (or just mail the script through the icon below).
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