Kalkidan Mulugeta
Cine 325
October 21, 2015
Marcel Ophul's “The Memory of Justice” Marcel Ophuls, son of the well known director Max Ophuls is an award winning film maker and director best known for his documentary masterpieces. Ophuls was born in 1927 in Frankfurt Germany and later moved to Paris, France due to the Nazi take over. Ophuls and his family stayed in hiding in the Vichy area for over a year. Ophuls and his family later moved to the United States where Ophuls attended Hollywood high and lived on Hollywood street. Ophuls and his family later returned to Paris in 1950 Although Ophuls is reputable for his earlier films and television experiences, he is most notorious for making his intriguing documentaries. Upon returning to
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Throughout the film, Ophuls focuses on several interviews and newsreels of surviving individuals. Ophuls captured footage of some of the witnesses, and those who were involved in the trials. These newsreels and interviews consist of ideas that lead to the French tactics in the fight to keep Algeria and America in action in Vietnam. Throughout the many interviews in the The Memory of Justice, Ophuls asks the individuals a series of ethical questions and some interesting responses are provided. In the clips of the newsreel, there are a multiple scenes in the Nuremnberg courtroom. One significant scene was where the Nazi Germany politicians, Rudolf Hess and the leading member of the Nazi Party, Hermann Goering are shown discussing their army I.Q. Tests, comparing results before they are trialed for peace interference and war crimes leading to their imprisonment. During the interviews, some deny their responsibility but others, like Mr. Speer accept their responsibility. A young German woman, for example, explains that the previous generation did not make the initiative to find the root of the problems. Others, like Daniel L. Ellsberg presents a more evasive sense of acceptance when when explaining the American war criminals of …show more content…
Often times, Ophuls carefully uses music during the breaks which allow the viewers to have some time to think of the overwhelming events and information that is displayed. The music is enjoyable and in french and relates to each seen. His music is very meaningful. He also uses minor nudity, which grabs the audience attention and again makes the audience think about the meaning behind certain footage that is displayed. The footage that Ophuls was able to capture is remarkable. His interviews are raw and to the point. He is careful about where to add breaks in the film which create a greater affect on the content presented. Marcel Ophuls was able to capture a great amount of content and every scene in the film was relevant and effective. Ophuls succeeded in presenting several interviews that allowed individuals to express their experiences and his ideas presented has greatly impacted the cinema world as well as the
While The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Colleges and Universities has many merits it also posses some off-putting weaknesses. Karp opens his work up for criticism and makes it less likely to be accepted or seen as a serious alternative to the traditional disciplinary systems with the inclusion of frivolous illustrations and talks of the spiritual. The Little Book also lacks much evidence outside of personal testimony or the authors own reasoning —while that can be strong evidence, empirical evidence have a place in this discussion.
This book takes place sometime during the 1960s after the Second World War. Some Germans would rather forget it ever happened than acknowledge the disgraceful events that took place during World War II “Adolf Eichmann's trial began on April 11, 1961 in Jerusalem, Israel. Eichmann was
In his Article, “The Range of Justice”, Gerald Gaus Explains that there will likely never be one vision of a “just society” Due to this, Gaus concludes that instead individuals have the responsibility to learn tolerance towards others whose views may be different than their own. This “moral maturity” is essential to understanding that we live in a diverse society that will likely never come to share a single conception of what is best for society as a whole, and to understand that they may be forced to live under policies and/or practices with which they may not agree.
A few weeks ago, my friend Iz returned a book to me that I lent her last fall. It was my mother’s old Nazi Mind book. When she returned the book to me, a book that is no longer a required text for the class, I wondered how the class had changed over time. Since this year's Trial just recently occurred, I thought it might be an appropriate time to compare Nazi Mind then and now.
Agatha Christie, author of the murder mystery And Then There Were None, used foreshadowing and both external and internal conflict to portray the theme of her novel that justice can be served for the crimes that go unpunished. Christie used these elements because she enjoyed mystery and she liked to keep her readers engaged while reading. Agatha Christie is still considered one of the best, if not, the best murder mystery writer today because she wrote the first murder mystery novel and she wrote many more after that that was well loved by people.
We hear in the news about police misconduct, use of excessive force, embezzlement, but one thing I found while researching what I should write this paper on is the Wrongful convictions of innocent men and women, that spend years in prison being innocent, and there is nothing that gets done till it’s too late. Some wrongful convictions are honest mistakes, but many times law enforcement and prosecutors lose sight of the obligation of ensuring truth and justice, and are focused on their conviction rates. As with any job, they are honest people and ones that just don’t care and are corrupt, this exists in the criminal justice system. One way to prove someone is innocent now is through DNA testing, but even at all levels of a criminal investigation there could be misconduct or mishandling of evidence, which then causes the evidence to become compromised.
Many of the most important aspects of and decisions about social organization hinge on an individual or society’s conception of justice. Because this conception of justice has tremendous influence over the way societies are structured, political theorists interested in understanding and improving society place great importance on understanding and articulating the nature of justice. While most of the political theorists we have read in class have proposed definitions of justice, none of them sufficiently incorporate the many dimensions of justice while remaining specific enough to allow for relatively consistent distinctions between the just and unjust. To balance these competing demands, I propose that justice is the impartial ordering of
Crime and punishment has made some tremendous changes since the early modern time of the 1600s. A period where a wife, could be found guilty of being a scold, in other words, nagging her husband. Punishments for this crime consist of the wife being duck into the river or pond using a ducking stool that is said to still exist in Canterbury in Kent. The Scold’s Bridle was another form of punishment us for a nagging wife, she was made to wear this bridle as a form of embarrassment for her actions against her husband. In early modern times the homeless made people uncomfortable and scared because of the change in the land that cause them to move from their traditional rural livelihood and became known as vagabonds. If the homeless
The article, The myth of Justice, by Michael Dorris is intriguing and insightful because he provides his stance on justice and how he thinks we have come to the point of thinking life is supposed to be fair. He believes that justice is something that isn’t achievable. He even goes a step farther and says in his thesis that “justice is one of those palliative myths...” and that it isn’t even something that exists. It’s just something that we, as a human race, have developed and created over time. His thoughts are really intriguing because he has a point and he backs it up with things most people could probably relate too. However, I noticed that he never discussed when we actually think justice is achieved or gained. This has led me to disagree with his thought that justice is only a myth and it can’t be achieved.
The criminal justice system views any crime as a crime committed against the state and places much emphasis on retribution and paying back to the community, through time, fines or community work. Historically punishment has been a very public affair, which was once a key aspect of the punishment process, through the use of the stocks, dunking chair, pillory, and hangman’s noose, although in today’s society punishment has become a lot more private (Newburn, 2007). However it has been argued that although the debt against the state has been paid, the victim of the crime has been left with no legal input to seek adequate retribution from the offender, leaving the victim perhaps feeling unsatisfied with the criminal justice process.
Justice versus injustice is one of the biggest conflicts in the world as justice lacks one true definition. Socrates goes out to find the meaning of justice, but what he finds is a conflict where the unjust man is not always the loser. The unjust man is better than the just man and the argument that the fair man is superior does not always hold up.
One highlight of the film for me, Wahidy visiting the hospital in Herat. Hoping to gain more information on women who have committed self-immolation. After being denied access to the subjects that Wahidy hoped to photograph, she comes across a previous patient. It's discovered that self-immolation is nothing but a ruse to cover up husbands lighting their wives on fire. The horrific torture this woman endured from her in-laws and her husband left me
Watching this movie was based on a setting to symbolize how redemption can be use to forgive. This movie was based on diffrent events that show crime, memory, and redemption.The film has events that make the poiint of view of how the character that is in death row. His life in the movie shows the conflict between the mom and her son which are displayed as she rembers all the events that happen before she arrives at the location where he is.after she arrives she starts talking to him to say that she forgives him for the events that took place in the movie and he felt regretful for his mistakes.According to the website restorative confercing brings the victim and the offender face to face meeting to discuss, the crime and its impact.which leads
Looking into criminal justice procedure, many administrations are at work. Starting with the police, to the courts and concluding in corrections. Though all these sectors have different tasks, their combined focus is processing the law. Regardless what the process is called criminal justice will continue to serve with discretion, conviction, and correction. When first presented with the question whether criminal justice is a system, non-system, and network I leaned toward a network. Throughout our discussions, lectures, and readings I felt the process presented itself as a network. Intertwined divisions working for a common goal. Further into my research and help from Webster, I decided that the criminal justice
Over the decades, the concept of justice has been continually evolving. This is occurring based upon different moral or legal interpretations. Evidence of this can be seen with observations from Burke (2011) who said, "Few things are of more importance to a society than its concept of justice. This is because it is justice that provides criterion for the legitimate use of force. In the name of justice people are detained, arrested, handcuffed, put on trial and punished. This concept is used to provide every society with some kind of social order. Over the last 200 years, a revolution has taken place with these principles. Our idea of it is what we employ, when dealing with ordinary individuals in daily life including: making agreements, paying bills, resolving disputes and putting criminals in jail. This is a concept that is as old as recorded history and it is familiar to people everywhere. What makes it so unique is that these ideas are constantly changing which focuses on society as a whole and how people are interacting with each other. " (Burke)