Red Corner

Red Corner (1997)

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Themes
- Confession, Repentance, Grace, Denial of Guilt
  - Jack Moore is an American attorney having talks in Bejing about founding the first satellite TV joint venture. Suddenly he is arrested, accused of murder and has to prove it was a frame-up together with his court-appointed attorney Shen Yuelin. Her advice, as his attorney, is to plead guilty to a crime he knows--and she believes--he didn't commit. An interesting take on the denial of guilt we have in our own lives, but the inescapable truth that we are all guilty of sin. The positive side is that the attorney's advice is correct: we're better off if we plead guilty, even if we believe we're innocent. Jesus' grace will cover us; but in the words of the movie's tag line, there is "Severity for those who resist." (Brian Rafferty, MI)