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Today on Happy Sad Confused

Today on Happy Sad Confused, Aaron Sorkin returns to the courtroom for the

trial of the Chicago 7.

Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrow.

It's welcome to another edition of Happy Sad Confused. Big one this week.

He's been on the list for a while. I am certainly a big-time Arrensorkin fan. You either are or you aren't. You either respond to

Aaron Sorkin's quick dialogue and pacing and intelligence or you feel it's

insufferable I guess and I think that's a minority. I am of the camp that

Aaron Sorkin is one of our greats a great playwright a great screenwriter a great wordsmith

I am thoroughly entertained by all of his work. If his name is in the credits, I am there.

I've probably seen everything he's put his name to.

Because everything he's put his name to has turned out, you know, the great actors of our time,

the great directors of our time dating back to his first play, which was in fact a few good men later turned into not so long later I should

add into the amazing film starring Tom Cruz and Jack Nicholson. But anyway the movie

we're talking about today is his latest and it is his second directing effort,

and it's a really special one. It's called the trial of the Chicago 7.

This one's been on my radar for many, many years. If you're a film nerd like

myself, you've followed this one probably because it's gone through all these

different permutations. It is of course the true life story of the seven, kind of eight defendants, you'll see when you see the movie, who were arrested during the 1968 conventions for protesting.

It really is a timely film that sounds like a cliche,

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