Trial of Chicago 7's ending is so disappointing

Aaron Sorkin is really great at keeping you engaged in this film. Snappy dialogue, brilliant performances, great editing and music - all come together very well. All culminating in one of the most bafflingly dumb and heavy handed endings I've seen.Movie ends with one of the defendants, Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), has to give a closing statement. Judge tells him not to get political and be brief, but he heroically decides to read names of soldiers who died in Vietnam War. All of this is presented with cheesy music, characters holding fists and claps. It's as 90s as it gets.What makes this infuriating is not that this is completely made up. No, what's infuriating is the fact that they cut out what would've made for a much stronger ending - William Kunstler's (Rylance) closing arguments. Kunstler, in real life, gave one badass closing argument, condemning the system and bringing up the injustice of how revolutionaries were treated throughout history. Here is the brief passage, you can easily find the rest on google:We are living in extremely troubled times, as Mr. Weinglass pointed out. An intolerable war abroad has divided and dismayed us all. Racism at home and poverty at home are both causes of despair and discouragement. In a so-called affluent society, we have people starving, and people who can't even begin to approximate the decent life. These are rough problems, terrible problems, and as has been said bv everybody in this country, they are so enormous that they stagger the imagination. But they don't go away by destroying their critics. They don't vanish by sending men to jail. They never did and they never will. To use these problems by attempting to destroy those who protest against them is probably the most indecent thing that we can do. You can crucify a Jesus, you can poison a Socrates, you can hand John Brown or Nathan Hale, you can kill a Che Guevara, you can jail a Eugene Debs or a Bobby Seale. You can assassinate John Kennedy or a Martin Luther King, but the problems remain. The solutions are essentially made by continuing and perpetuating with every breath you have the right of men to think, the right of men to speak boldly and unafraid, the right to be masters of their souls, the right to live free and to die free.Yes, Sorkin exchanged the potential of Rylance delivering this with Disney's power of clapping and love ending. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3dZ2OLr