剧情介绍
基于1933 年斯科茨伯勒再审九名黑人青年在火车上性侵犯两名白人妇女真实事件。一件在种族隔离制度下的南方，两名妇女指控九名黑人青年所引发出来的扑朔迷离审判。第二位指控者撤回告诉，从而引发洗刷可能被判死刑的被害者罪名的二审。
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train. In the spring of 1931 nine black hoboes were pulled off an Alabama freight train and arrested for allegedly raping two young white women in a gondola car. Ranging in ages from twelve to twenty years, they were quickly tried and sentenced to the electric chair. News of their convictions spread and the plight of the Scottsboro Boys became a 'cause celebre' that fueled the fire of socialism worldwide, forcing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and resulting in new trials for all nine defendants. New Yorker Samuel Leibowitz, a savvy and self-assured defense lawyer with an impressive string of courtroom victories, agreed to represent the accused at their retrials in Decatur, Alabama. His journey into the Deep South symbolized the polarity of the times and set in motion a legal battle that ultimately changed the course of American jurisprudence. The Scottsboro case was a tragic chapter in American history and a story of epic injustice. From their arrest in 1931 to the release of the last Scottsboro defendant in 1950, the rights of nine young black men were violated. In this century in America, we face many of the same racial prejudices and human rights issues that existed almost seventy-five years ago. The names have changed, but the rhetoric that convicted the Scottsboro Nine remains virtually the same. Heavens Fall attempts to examine the cultural and political differences that divide us. It is my hope that by looking into the hearts and minds of the Scottsboro participants, black and white, North and South, powerful and impoverished, we may come to a better understanding of each other.
平淡简单，老题材，也有张力。片名和优酷版本翻译错误百出，影响体验。
结合最近阿拉巴马反堕胎案通过看，真是应景。最后那段话配合火车进入山洞逐渐黑暗的镜头，配得很好。
可怕的偏见
黑人强奸倆白人女孩的背后，是种族歧视
整个电影看我真着急，心率都快了，幸好最后坚持了正确的判决。
愤怒于美国南方州民众们如此深的种族歧视意识。看来哪个国家的民主进步也都是个逐步提升的过程，都不是一蹴而就的。
...偏见也是很致命的...
美国南北方的对待黑人的态度 从南北战争时期到现在就一直没变过 刻在骨子里 写在基因上 为这个白人律师的所作所为点赞
无时不在的钢琴背景音让人出戏，消减了压抑感和张力。最终的审判结果也是令人唏嘘。也许对法律的信仰才是最终的胜利者。
Law is law。有时间真想好好写写这部略嫌理想主义的电影里折射出的美国人的价值观。
自由、权利是要靠争取得来的。
真相也许并不重要，重要的是当社会规则被制定后所有的人应当正确的执行和遵守，这种程序的正义甚至大于结果的正义。
电影里法官最后坚持了正义，推翻了重审，给阴暗的结局带来了光明
没办法，偏激的人类往往不在乎真相
很喜欢看这种庭审的影片，能够通过一系列的庭审过程，看控辩双方你来我往来论证自己的观点。这部电影看完只觉得有一种深重的压抑感，正义和努力都敌不过深入骨髓的歧视。有的人付出了自己的职业生涯，有的人付出了自己的生命。所有正义的伸张最终都需要时间与鲜血来点缀。