“Our daughters are never going to play together” - makes the ending just that much more sweeter

That black man line hit me. Because to this day it’s still true. A lot of people try to play it off and pretend like they’re not racist or prejudice. But when you’re in this skin your whole life… you can tell… you can tell… Shut up and don’t complain boy I know here comes the haters

He was wrong about one thing. Jake didn't think like them. The whole reason he took the case is because he had a daughter the same age as Carl Lee's daughter and he knew if the same thing had happened to Hanna that happened to Tanya he would've done exactly what Carl Lee did. He even admits it to his wife later on. That's why when Carl Lee speaks to him in the courtroom after the acquittal, Jake sarcastically says, "I'm just like them, remember." It wasn't Carl Lee that helped him decide on his closing argument. It was Roarke. When he goes to see her in the hospital, she tells him, "You've got the chance during closing arguments to make the jury see this case through your eyes." And that's what he did.

25 years and it is still EXACTLY as Carl Lee paints it...

This is the key and most important scene in the movie. This is the one that lays on the truth and gets to the core of any issue. Yes, McConaughey's lawyer meant well, but he's still a white man who doesn't really mingle with the black folks, who lives a completely different life and who actually deep down likes it that way. And Samuel L. Jackson's character knows this, he sees through this, but he picks McConaughey anyway, because he knows he doesn't stand a chance with a white jury if his legal defense is also black. And this works not just for inter-racial relations, but any relations where two social classes clash or meet. It's actually ironic Hollywood A-listers make these movies where they celebrate the poor, justice, equality and yet they themselves are the most gross examples of inequality and excess. And no, none of them would trade their life with a life of the poor person they're trying to romantically celebrate as "pure" of "true values", etc. Those who are poor know the truth - there is no romance in it, it just sucks. The "true values" aren't really values, they're necessity - you value less because you have less, it's that simple, it's not because you're a better human being. My dad is like this even at 65 - he romanticizes the poor and sees them as some "salt of the Earth" people although he himself is rich, he's the top manager in large investment group that isn't exactly getting by on philantropy if you know what I mean, he makes a lot of money, etc. But he likes to think despite all these things, he has true values, he has been rich and successful so long, he doesn't understand that his own beliefs would vanish LIKE THAT immediately if he suddenly was about to become poorer. Honestly, the older I get, the more I dislike this kind of romanticizing of poverty or lower class - I find it patronizing and to be honest, arrogant.

I saw this for the first time yesterday. This is a really insightful scene

It's still true today now more than ever and you know something only so many people would understand where Samuel L Jackson is coming from in this scene and so many others will never understand unless they're on the other side of the line

“Cause you one of the bad guys…you don’t mean to be but you are..” Jake was like well damn you may have a point there 😂.

Carl Lee was his own best lawyer!

One of the all time GREATEST "Back & Forth's" ever, from any movie! "Jake, how am I gonna get a FAIR Trial with a White jury!? YOU Jake, that's how!! You're one of them! You're my secret weapon! If you were on that jury, what would it take to convince you to set me free?" One of the ALL TIME GREATEST lines!! And, UNFORTUNATELY, Still so very Relevant Today.

Still my favorite part!!!

Samuel l Jackson at his best

truth is sad.

That's how you save my asssss!

Samuel L spoke a chilling truth. How ironic that his character needed to educate his lawyer to the realities of living in America.

MAN, Samuel Jackson can act!

We ain’t no friends Jake…

Samuel is the shit.

Wow this scene is GOLD

they arest this man, they got the whole avengers coming after tgem

Yes the only thing that has remained the same even after 30years😢

man that was some true shit right there and still true in 2021.

i'm a white guy from john grisham's part of the country and this scene has stuck with me since i was a teenager. that, and the "imagine she's white" scene...

That's the way that it has always been and always will be.

The first time I saw 👀 this movie 🎥 I cried 😰😥😪😭😢

yeah

He speaking the truth💯

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Well it wasn't just about racial inequality it was about how tolerant of rape society is they don't think child rapists deserve the death penalty the way the parents of the victim does.

Samuel l statement was and still is true til this day Very strong scene and one of the best scenes in movie 🎥 history

I think-His daughter his judgement!!!!! Nobody else's fucking business

MM can act the pants off anyone he is up against. ❤

Im a British Pakistani so I'm complete outsider but it always gets me angry why black Americans are called African americans when their heritage or attachment to the nation goes back couple of hundred years and certainly further back then alot of these white Americans. Why not just americans ?

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Listen, there is no middle ground all day long. Maybe, you want it, maybe you believe it but this is a culture of black tribes of very different standards and white cultures of very different standards trying to find Middle Ground. Sometimes it is there, beautiful to behold, but not that often. Compare the same to Native Americans (I am Cherokee descendant of a chief's daughter) talk about brutal history, consider blacks are not on reservations.

Love these comments like black people dont see us a different lol

I'm just glad this country is equal from a color standpoint now .

Get him off? he killed two handcuffed men in cold blood.

The good old days, before the woke garbage

What a touching racist rant filled with pure hate and bigotry 👌🏼

Samuel l Jackson at his best