Film Analysis: A Few Good Men

In this paper, I will be discussing the movie A Few Good Men, which is directed by Rob Reiner. I bought this movie from iTunes. Some of the main characters in this movie include Lieutenant Daniel Kaffe, Captain Jack Ross, Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway, Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and First-Class Private Louden Downey. While there are many other characters, these are the main ones in this movie. There are many things that I can relate back to our class such as how at the beginning Lieutenant Kaffe talks about trying to give the men a plea bargain, also we learned that since this crime happened on a naval base that this will be in a federal court, while in court Dr. Stone was called an expert witness, Lieutenant Daniel Kaffe doing his job as a criminal …show more content…
We talked about this in class and in the book, it defines a plea bargain as “discussions aimed toward an agreement under which the defendant will plead guilty in exchange for some prosecutorial or judicial concession” (Hendrix 218). Also, this normally takes place between the prosecutor and the defense counsel. We also discussed how 93% of cases get resolved this way. Shortly after they discuss this, Captain Jack Ross comes to Lieutenant Kaffe and tries to negotiate a plea bargain in a hallway outside of Kaffe’s office. This really proves the point of how plea bargains can be negotiated anywhere which is what we discussed in class. Another thing that we discussed in class is that there are certain things that can change a state crime into a federal crime. In this movie, the crime is considered federal because it happened on federal land, a military base. Some other things that can make a crime federal would be a crime where the person crosses a state line after the crime is committed, it violates Constitutional Rights, or is a dispute against the government. Next, during class, we talked about the three types of witnesses. We talked