Conviction-My Thoughts

Cast: Hillary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Minnie Driver, Peter Gallagher

Directed By: Tony Goldwyn

Running Time: 1 hr, 46 min
Genre: Drama

Release Date: 15th Oct, 2010                                                            DOWNLOAD HERE

Last night I came across this amazing and highly inspirational movie based on true story of Anne Waters (Hillary Swank) whose elder brother (Sam Rockwell) was wrongfully convicted of an atrocious murder and sentenced for life in 1983. Its Anne Waters surprisingly persistent crusade to prove her brothers innocence over the period of 18 years. Anne Waters was a working class Massachusetts high school drop out who made it her life's cause to free her brother from prison. It was her persistent and amazing journey of how she opted to enroll herself in a law school and became a lawyer just to be able to defend her brother and reopen the case. During the course of time, she sacrificed her marriage, missed out on her two sons childhood...for the love of a brother who had been her best friend and protector since they were kids.

Personally, I loved this movie because it showed events that were too close to real life. Things didn't work out well for Anne Waters for a long time. She faced so many major set backs over the years but not for a second she doubted her cause or lost hope in her chances to succeed. All along the movie, I kept on imagining myself, placing myself in Anne Waters place....a person like me would have been discouraged long ago...lost hope on the sight of just one major set back. I look back onto my life and I feel guilty of not pushing myself hard enough for things I believed in.

Anne Waters blind faith in her brother's innocence and her own untiring efforts of going to any lengths to save him, was extremely inspirational. How many of us would have actually sacrificed ourselves in such a way for family in today's world? Such pure devotion is rare even among blood relations.

I asked myself the same question, would I do this for my sister? the answer came to me almost automatically, OFCOURSE I would. But who knows how one might react under severe conditions? who knows when I might decide to give up? would I break up and lose hope or would I fight back even when the world is calling it a lost cause? Its when you are facing a hard situation and when you feel you have no other option but to fight...thats when you become aware of your true self, your own worth and what others mean to you whom you label as close and loved ones. I look around myself and see families breaking up on meaningless issues, siblings going bitter towards each other on issues that aren't worth their relation. Fights, hate and anger towards each other on material things. Why have people stopped valuing the concept of FAMILY....family is suppose to be the rock of your life from which you derive love and support and one should be as devoted to them as Anne Waters was. Clarity of heart, thats what matters.

I have marked this movie as one of my favourites, it really did make me think and review my own life and relations. I would say its a must watch. You might start from watching its trailer :)