#cayatte

The movie is much emblematic of the cinematic style and the social concern of one of the most controversial French directors of the past century. The story is of four young friends, any of them belonging to different social classes but all marked by a difficult relationship with their parents and the world around them; after having been arrested they are now facing a trial for the homicide of another young man of their age but... (Cayatte questions) who are the real killers: them or the society (family and school) that has not been able to educate them? I found this movie (actually very well directed and much well-acted) one of the most emblematic of the lawyer-director by its efforts to provoke a reflection about the theme of the social cor-responsibility (and so to stimulate debates and political and moral polemics) but there's an evident exaggeration in the use of the dramatic (easy) effects and the aggressive tones are used only as a sort of "spectacular provocation". An honorable essay about an important civil theme that others treated in a better way (I think of Carné's "Les Tricheurs" and Antonioni's "I vinti") but, by the lack of a sincere effort "as a compassionate human being" to realize "by his soul" the problem, here the denounce appears cold, too academic and, finally, ineffective.

In one of my screencaps you can see the cover of Spillane's book "I, the Jury", in its French translation).

Em tempos de maioridade penal, assistir "Somos todos assassinos", um filme de 1952, nos faz refletir que não importa que o tempo passe, a sociedade pouco evolui em termos de mentalidade e preconceitos.

Um tempo histórico passado, mas tão atual em nosso presente.

Um filme sob a perspectiva dos excluídos.

*** "Se por um lado é lícito questionarmos e pormos em causa a integração daqueles que não se ajustam às suas regras, por outro lado, é igualmente lícito o inconformismo dos desfavorecidos que nunca ou raramente tiveram oportunidade de seguir um rumo de liberdade tendo em vista uma vida minimamente decente capaz de satisfazer as suas necessidades mais elementares." [Jorge Navarro, em sua crítica sobre o livro de mesmo título, de Jean Meckert , no qual se baseia o filme - http://otempoentreosmeuslivros.blogspot.com.br/…/a-escolha-…]