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(Yes, that really happened.) Other bits of information trickle in - like, for instance, the fact that the police didnвЂ™t choose Johnny at random they had a classic (racist) motive for targeting him. He lays out the facts of JohnnyвЂ™s case early on, showing us the evidence of his innocence: the obscene (and absurd) lies told by the witness against him the fact that Johnny, on the day of the murder, was at a fish fry all day long with his family, one that 20 witnesses could have placed him at the fact that he was put on death row one year before his conviction, just so he could, you know, get used to it. Yet in вЂњJust Mercy,вЂќ director Destin Daniel Cretton, who made an indie splash six years ago with вЂњShort Term 12вЂќ and has hardly been heard from since, finds a newly supple way to deliver a liberal Hollywood knockout punch.

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In a classic drama of racial injustice, which вЂњJust MercyвЂќ both is and isnвЂ™t (the most powerful aspect of it is the way that it isnвЂ™t), the movie would consist of a steady drive toward truth, notched with a series of suspenseful surprises. He was convicted on the basis of testimony by a single witness whose story - that Johnny kidnapped him in his truck, left him alone, then came back, then drove over to a dry cleaner to commit the murder - was a pile of insane hogwash. Been there, accomplished that! (Or so said large swatches of white America.) Bryan, from Delaware, has come to the Deep South to carry on the fight in the belly of the beast.Д®arly on, we see what happened to FoxxвЂ™s Johnny D., a man with a big mustache and his own lumber business, who got stopped by a police blockade and arrested out of the blue. The movie is a true-life legal drama, or maybe we should call it a civil-rights drama - though part of its special emotional texture is that Bryan Stevenson, in setting out to save the lives of men he thinks of as brothers, and to bring justice to a place where the rule of law is treated as a fig leaf for violence, is fighting for civil rights at the moment when America has moved on, dropping that battle from its headlines, as if the fight were no longer necessary. That system, with death row as a morbid extension of slavery, is what вЂњJust MercyвЂќ is about. ItвЂ™s the horrific realization that his death is part of a system of killing.

What we see is that it isnвЂ™t just the fear of dying. As heвЂ™s strapped into the chair, and вЂњThe Old Rugged CrossвЂќ plays over the prisonвЂ™s sound system, and the prisoners use their tin cups to bang on the bars of their cells, the movie brings us disturbingly close to his terror.

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HeвЂ™s twitchy, full of dread, a delicate ghost of a man. On this day of his death, his head and eyebrows get shaved, which leaves him looking like an alien, and more people have been nice to him than on any other day of his life (which is, in its way, just as alienating).

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