Aaron Sorkin’s New Film Is the Right Story for This Moment
Netflix’s <em>The Trial of the Chicago 7</em> is a departure for the writer and director, who often indulges in misty-eyed idealism for American institutions.
is a courtroom drama where no one—neither the characters, nor the viewers—expects that justice will be done. When the defendants take their seats at the start of Aaron Sorkin’s new Netflix film, the audience already knows that the charges against them are ludicrous and the result of a political vendetta. The opening scene shows Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell (played by John Doman), ordering the prosecutor Richard Schultz (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to get convictions against protesters from the 1968 Democratic National Convention, no matter how far he has to stretch the
