Yesterday at noon I was watching in this movie decorated Naval officer is charged with murdering of his wife’s lover. This is not just any crime of passion – this is a protagonist who asked his wife’s lover whether he was ready to marry her and when he was certain of the other man’s deceit, he shot him dead, confessed to the murder and surrendered. It sounds like an open-and-shut case. The public prosecutor wanted to prove this a premeditated murder, where the officer decided to fire three shots in cold blood, the defendant, however, pleads ‘not guilty’ saying that he fired the shots under extreme provocation and in self-defense.
The technicalities of the case aside, our protagonist manages to have public opinion completely mobilized in his favour to the extent that even the jury decides to set him free.
The problem with the film is that there is too much focus on the court proceedings.