Kramer vs. Kramer And The Liar Lawyer

When I watched Kramer vs. Kramer* last night, I began to think that I hate lawyer. In contradictory, I wanted to be a lawyer since I was little.
It's all because of John Grisham. I read his novels a lot, and since that time I think about how cool the lawyer is. Lawyer is the hero**, he is the one who prove the innocent remain guiltless. Without considering the money people try to buy him, he still helps the poor and the clean people from the bad world.

Lawyer is just the perfect guy, isn't it?

But now I realize, it isn't. Maybe I was too naive back then, or maybe the world is getting crueler than ever. All I see now, lawyers don't help innocent people: they just help people to look innocent. My childhood dreams are perished. They're liars***. Even guilty people become innocent too. They don't uncover the truth. They expose the good thing, which is true, about the guilty people - their client - but they didn't even say any little tiny bit words about the bad thing from the guilty people. The worse, they can make another innocent people become the suspect.

I don't like that. I don't like when Margareth (Merryl Streep) and Ted (Dustin Hoffman) were arguing about the right to raise their son Billy, since they were separated, that lawyer, who were hired by Margareth forced Ted to lie.
Well, come to think of it, it's not lying. It just admitting something that didn't have any relationship with the matters, but it just makes you looks like you're such a bad personality people, so you're the guilty one.

The lawyer asked Ted,
Had you ever go home when you're working and it makes you passed the deadline of your work?
And then Ted said,
But my son was sick! He's got a 140 degree temperature!

But the only thing that matters to the lawyer is that Ted went home during his work and then passed the deadline of his work, so that make him looks like irresponsible person. So he couldn't raise his son.
But he came home because he love his son, doesn't he?
Even later when Margareth won, his son doesn't want to leave Ted. The father and the son loved each other, so why they separate them?****

The lawyer couldn't see this, right? He just thought about the money Margareth would give him if he won the court for Margareth.
Yes, it's all about the money. When Ted Kramer told his lawyer about getting Billy back from Margareth, it would cost him $15,000 if he wins.

Like Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), he couldn't afford a lawyer to get Lucy (Dakota Fanning) back*****. The state took him because Sam's retarded so he couldn't raise Lucy. But fortunately for him, Rita Harisson (Michelle Pfeiffer) is a good lawyer (not like the one I've told you before) who give him a pro bono****** thing.
But what?
Shit happens. They're still on the losing side either. I mean, why we should separate a father and a child who love him?
Isn't love is all you need?

Poor Ted and Sam, it's a really cruel cruel world.
They don't even care about love anymore.






Footnotes:
* Won 5 Oscar nomination in 1979
** When I was 5, I consider Superman wasn't a hero, he just a silly man wears a silly red underwear
*** Jim Carrey's Liar Liar
****
Billy Kramer: Who's gonna read me my bedtime stories?
Ted Kramer: Mommy will.
Billy Kramer: You're not gonna kiss me good night anymore, are you, Dad?
Ted Kramer: No, I won't be able to do that. But, you know, I get to visit. It's gonna be ok, really.
Billy Kramer: [crying] If I don't like it, can I come home?
Ted Kramer: What do you mean if you don't like it? You're gonna have a great time with Mommy. Really. She loves you so much.
Billy Kramer: Dad? Don't forget, once, if you can just call me up, okay?
Ted Kramer: We're gonna be okay. Come on, let's go get some ice cream.
***** I Am Sam, directed by Jessie Nelson. Sean Penn win the best actor on the 2001 Academy Award in this film
****** Free from charge