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The Way That Audiences Viewed The World Around Them

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The Blurring Line of Truth and Falsehood in Michael Clayton “Isn 't it what we wait for? To meet someone... and they 're, they 're like a lens and suddenly you 're looking through them and everything changes and nothing can ever be the same again.” (Gilroy) The legal thriller Michael Clayton directed by Tony Gilroy challenged the way that audiences viewed the world around them. Director Tony Gilroy created a film where every interaction and conflict challenged the moral compass of the viewers. The film depicts the life of law firm fixer Michael Clayton as he realizes that the line between true and false, that he struggles to keep defined, slip. Following a break down that one of the law firms’ major assets and his person friend, Michael …show more content…

To the point where she is willing to send two hitmen to both Arthur and Michael in order to eliminate the threat. The audience gets a glimpse on how Karen thinks when she states this during an interview, “When you really are enjoying what it is you do, who needs balance? There 's your balance! There 's your balance. When you 're really enjoying what it is you do, there 's your balance.” (Gilroy) This really shows the extremes that can be taken when you commit to becoming completely bent into hiding the truth. But on the contrast, you get to see Arthur. While the film makes Arthur seems like he is at first a crazy person you learn as the movie progresses that he finally chose where he wanted to stay on the spectrum. By being someone who realized that the truth is what the public needs to know, a stark contrast to what his whole career was. He spent all his time and energy to help the poor farming family because he truly felt like a monster who helped destroy their lives. One of his most memorable lines in the film that grabbed the attention of the audience was, “I am Shiva, the god of death.” (Gilroy) That line embodies the reality that he knows of his crime. By coming to terms of what he was, it enabled him to dedicate what was left to help and fix all the problems that he helped create. As an audience member, when viewing

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