{"id":26109,"date":"2017-08-14T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26109"},"modified":"2017-08-14T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:12:20","slug":"justice-served-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/14\/justice-served-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Served (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/JusticeServed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/JusticeServed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/JusticeServed.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/JusticeServed-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/JusticeServed-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>In the modern social and political climate, Patrick Rea\u2019s \u201cJustice Served\u201d is going to play well and perhaps stir up some much needed controversy. While director Rea delivers his usual slick special effects and morbid tone, \u201cJustice Served\u201d is a brilliant commentary on society and how far we\u2019ve come. Society is nothing but people exploiting people, exploiting people, we\u2019re devils and devil\u2019s advocates. Director Rea creates a backward world where the society we witness is shockingly not that different than what we\u2019re seeing today.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If I am cryptic it\u2019s because I really want to save the surprises for the audience, and implore them to go check out \u201cJustice Served\u201d when it arrives in festivals. A young man is in jail and is awaiting trial. Accused of pushing a small girl in front of a moving vehicle, he\u2019s approached by a lawyer who begins to encourage him to play along with the trial and coaxes him in to admitting what he\u2019d done. Admitting wholeheartedly to what he\u2019d done, we garner a full glimpse in to the world he\u2019s living in. It\u2019s a world where everyone indulges their darkest desires, and the snakes are given the most respect. Before long, he\u2019s being judged and analyzed by a mass of the population that are not at all his peers, and seek to prey on him.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Rea is very good about switching the circumstances, conveying what we think are the delusions of a madman. We\u2019re never sure of what we\u2019re watching, and if what is unfolding is more metaphorical than literal, and that\u2019s what makes \u201cJustice Served\u201d such an unnerving and relevant horror short. It\u2019s very hard to pick out which society we\u2019re entrenched in, and for a long time we may never able to definitively know for sure. Director Rea flips the symbolism constantly, leaving audiences to interpret what we\u2019ve seen and wonder if we\u2019re too far gone to ever really regain any semblance of order and or humanity ever again. Is this who we are? Are we beyond redemption?<\/p>\n<p>Coming to Select Festivals soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the modern social and political climate, Patrick Rea\u2019s \u201cJustice Served\u201d is going to play well and perhaps stir up some much needed controversy. While director Rea delivers his usual slick special effects and morbid tone, \u201cJustice Served\u201d is a brilliant commentary on society and how far we\u2019ve come. Society is nothing but people exploiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[240,477,501,703,938],"class_list":["post-26109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26111,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109\/revisions\/26111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}