完整word版英文影评Philadelphia

Philadelphia

Now I can still remember when I first watch this movie. It was a wet sunny afternoon, I have nothing urgent to do and there was someone said that another classroom is going to show a film called Philadelphia. I was attracted by the Chinese translation of the title that is referred as the story of Philadelphia. And then, magic two and a half hours. After I walk out of the classroom, the songs the pictures the lines still haunted me. With the sunlight through the trees projected shadow on me, as if I was walking on the street of Philadelphia, the na?ve kid rode a bicycle passed me, people all wear peaceful smiles; while I still feel sad, for I was going to say goodbye to all of these best things that god promised to give. And it was exactly the mood of main character Andrew at the beginning of the movie.

With the rising of music, a long picture of this city is shown in front of us.

Andrew Beckett is a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia where he didn't open his identity as a homosexuality nor the fact that he got AIDS. One day, his partner found he's secret. Then Beckett was dismissed for his partners questioned his professional

abilities in the light of the misplaced documents although he just got promotion. When Beckett finally found out why he was dismissed was because his diagnosis with AIDS. Beckett got angry and disappointed, so he decided to sue his company. He asked so many attorneys to take his cases, but nobody dared to do that. There was a lawyer named Miller who was homophobic and knew little about AIDS, he came to visit his doctor immediately to find out if he would have contracted AIDS after shaking Beckett's hand. The doctor explained the methods of HIV infection. Unable to find a lawyer willing to represent him, Beckett was compelled to act as his own attorney. One day when Beckett was searching a case at a law library, Miller met him on a nearby table. After the librarian said loudly that he had found a book on the AIDS discrimination for Beckett, the people sitting besides him feared and then moved away to other places, so the librarian suggested Beckett for a private room. Disguised by those people's behavior, Miller came to help Beckett to review his materials. As the case went before the court, Beckett's illness was aggravated but he still appeared on the court even sitting on the wheelchair. However, one day, during the head of the firm, Charles Wheeler's testimony, Beckett collapsed and was sent to the hospital then. Fortunately, during his hospitalization, the jury voted on his favor. Although it was only one more vote, Beckett was awarded his back pay, damages for pain and suffering, and punitive damage totaling more than