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ALAB Series

Episode 22: ALAB at the Movies - Michael Clayton

ALAB Series

All Lawyers Are Bad

Business

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Andy, Michael, Tarik, and Tim reflect on the 2007 Oscar-nominated film Michael Clayton. While the movie has been hailed as a masterwork of the legal thriller genre, how true to life is its portrait of the evil corporate lawyer?

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The Oh, All right Michael Clayton. This is a fun one for y'all.

0:37.0

Forgot what the last one we did was if it was sad.

0:39.0

It was the racism one.

0:40.0

Yeah, that was kind of sad.

0:41.0

It was kind of a bummer.

0:42.0

Yeah, not great. Yeah luckily this movie is full of

0:46.4

cheery prognostication. Yeah we're gonna have a lot of implications about the

0:51.6

about the profession that says you know being lawyers

0:54.8

grand yeah there's a sunshine civil trial of fulfilling work yeah look the plaintiffs

1:00.8

win here so that's good. Right?

1:03.3

They don't really win.

1:04.3

They just kind of, really the defendants lose a lot more than the plaintiffs win.

1:08.1

And the protagonist goes on a journey of self-discovery, right?

1:11.7

That's, that's, right? And a journey of self discovery, right? That's...

1:13.0

And a journey of regular discovery.

1:15.0

Yeah.

1:16.0

But you get a movie.

1:18.0

I look back at the building, and I had the most stunning moment of clarity. I realized Michael that I had

1:28.0

emerged not through the doors of Kenner Bakalow-D, not through the portals of our vast and powerful offer, but from the

1:36.0

asshole of an organism whose sole function is to excrete the poison, the amyl, the defoniate necessary for other larger, more powerful

1:47.3

organisms to destroy the miracle of humanity, and that I had been coded in this patina of shit for the best part of my life.

1:56.5

The scent of it and the stain of it would in all likelihood take the rest of my life to win do.

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