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alobearLast night, we watched Marshall, a 2017 film starring Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, the first black US Supreme Court Justice. The film focused on one particular case he argued relatively early in his career, when he was travelling around taking on cases for the NAACP.
The film was both interesting and quite fun, with Josh Gad on excellent supporting form as the local lawyer who got dragged into the case because the judge wouldn't let Marshall argue in court.
The ins and outs of the case itself were highly charged, the relationship between the two lawyers was well drawn, and the pressures of Marshall's job on his marriage were well portrayed without resorting to the tired trope of the angry wife left at home.
All the peripheral performances were good and I enjoyed learning a bit about Thurgood Marshall, as well as appreciating an excellent Chadwick Boseman performance. Good all round.
The film was both interesting and quite fun, with Josh Gad on excellent supporting form as the local lawyer who got dragged into the case because the judge wouldn't let Marshall argue in court.
The ins and outs of the case itself were highly charged, the relationship between the two lawyers was well drawn, and the pressures of Marshall's job on his marriage were well portrayed without resorting to the tired trope of the angry wife left at home.
All the peripheral performances were good and I enjoyed learning a bit about Thurgood Marshall, as well as appreciating an excellent Chadwick Boseman performance. Good all round.
