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LEGAL COUNSELING AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
REACTION PAPER IN
MY COUSIN VINNY
The movie was released in my birth year which is 1992 so the
movie was as old as me. Classic muscle cars and good old songs
was the first thing that attracted my interest in watching the movie.
The setting was a small town in Alabama where you hardly see
establishments and the main characters were from New York. You
can just imagine the reactions of Yankees being stranded to places
like Alabama.
The story started when Bill and Stan shopped at sac-o-suds
and Bill forgot to pay the canned tuna which he placed in his
pocket. The combinations of the characters were very odd which
made the story more attention-grabbing. Obviously, they were good
guys because they never intended to steal the canned tuna and it
was just a bad luck that they matched the description of the real
suspects in killing the clerk at the sac-o-suds.
I was very amused by Stan because he was the panic guy in
the story. When Bill told him about the tuna, he was very terrified
of being arrested for shoplifting. And when they were followed by a
police car, he got even more scared and started mumbling and
blaming Bill.
Bill was the cool one in the story. He took the situation very
composed and tried to calm Stan because he know the crime he did
was light, not intentional and no grave damage was done. He only
started panicking when he learned that he was not just arrested for
shoplifting but for first degree murder and Stan as an accessory in
aiding him.
Technically speaking there was a grave error made by the
arresting officer because the officer never informed Stan and Bill of
the reason for their arrest and specially their rights. Even the