Another favorite courtroom movie of mine is very popular comedy called Legally Blonde starring Reese Witherspoon. I need to see this one again soon, it has been a while!
Elle uses a very different framework from your typical Ivy League law student when it comes to paying attention to details, and most of her classmates, including the boyfriend that dumped her now that he want to get serious about life, think that she is quite an airhead. This is a fairy tale all the way, because the heroine gets to be both beautiful and smart, graduates at the top of her class, gets to hear her ex-boyfriend express regret for dumping her, and wins the heart of a man with more integrity.
This story's main court case also has that satisfying moment of revelation of verdict in the public stage of the courtroom, and Elle gets to be the one to bring the examination of witnesses to that moment of apocalypse, all because of her particular attention to fashion detail. When she received an insult about her shoes, she recognized a mask that no one else did.
We as an audience love Elle, even with her outrageous tendency to coordinate in pink from head to toe, quill to puppy. In stories that deal with social heirarchy, we all long for an ending like this: that the snobs lose out on earning authentic respect from their peers, and that the ones prematurely labeled to be losers and outsiders by those snobs eventually receive enthusiastic recognition and honor because they do not show favoritism and have the courage to openly express their true selves.
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