Tuesday, March 11, 2008

New Orleans


New Orleans is known for the food, the French Quarter, and Mardi Gras. Even if we are not out partying all night we still need to sleep. Up all night working on the cities pain. The city is in the process of doing what is just and true. This is a musical city that mixes culture and excitement.

Actions that have happen after Hurricane Katrina are continuously pursued for the truth and the good of the community. Denzel needs his coffee to continue his investigation. With the many shoots of Canal street, New Orleans comes alive. The history is beautiful and unlike other cities there seems to be a real search for the truth.

DEJAVU: This movie is all about knowing people. After the disaster that the city went through, the residents joined forces. They became one to fight for the good of all. Denzel Washington is working on the explosion case that deals with another death of a women. He is trying to find the killer because now it is personal. Denzel talked to the girls father and he gave him some pictures, "to make it persona.l" The father realizes that there are so many cases that only the special will get the chance to be investigated.

In DEJAVU there is a constant peak back at the stress that the city has and still currently endures. Driving through the areas that have not yet been cleaned up from the hurricane, one can see that the city is not done recovering. The people always seem to try. Using a device to see the past happening on a digital system the police department is trying to catch a killer that murdered a girl and a whole ferry full of people on Mardi Gras as a demonstration of his devotion to his country.

Runaway Jury: Taking place before hurricane Katrina, these anti-gun activists finally get the chance to get even for the killing of John Cusack's girlfriends sister and the case that bankrupted their small hometown. Cusack at the end wins in a blackmale battle of the jury coming up with a just and true verdict. Cusack secures the jury from the evil gun company and the same lawyer that tried the case from his childhood shooting.

When the gun companies lawyer asked why they were involved with such a scandal, Cusack responds that without the gun companies lawyer to meddle with the other jury members and force them to vote in favor of the gun company, Cusack could "let justice happen."

Creating Knowledge: People died, New Orleans has a rough history, but the people and noise make everything better. People that have been pushed from New Orleans return to give the city a second try at their future. The people are always trying to create justice. With Cusack's culmination of life work ending with the prosecution of the gun company who willingly handed out fire arms without checking references, he fulfills his life work.

Denzel tells the decided father that he will find the truth, and even after leaps and bounds he continues to push on in his research. "The truth will set you free".

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