A Time to Kill
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1996 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Joel Schumacher |
| Cast | Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland |
| Genre | Legal drama film |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | A Time to Kill | – |
| Español | Tiempo de matar | Tiempo de matar |
| Français | Le Droit de tuer? | Le Droit de tuer |
| Deutsch | Die Jury | Die Jury |
| Português | Tempo de Matar | Tempo de Matar |
| Italiano | Il momento di uccidere | Il momento di uccidere |
| Русский | Время убивать | Vremya ubivat |
| 中文（简体） | 杀戮时刻 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 殺戮時刻 | – |
| 한국어 | 타임 투 킬 | Taim Tu Kil |
| ไทย | – | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Thời khắc để giết | Thoi khac de giet |
| Bahasa Indonesia | A Time to Kill | A Time to Kill |
| 日本語 | 評決のとき | Hyōketsu no Toki |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which legal justice and retaliatory violence collide within a racially divided courtroom
■ Synopsis
After a father kills the men who assaulted his daughter, a young lawyer must defend him inside a community fractured by race, law, revenge, and moral judgment.
■ RECIPE Tags
#JusticeAndRevenge #RacialJudgment #CourtroomMorality #EmpathyAndLaw #ViolenceAndVerdict
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Law inside racial prejudice
Reason: Legal procedure is tested by a community already shaped by racial fear and inherited hostility.
Related Film: To Kill a Mockingbird - Middle: Retaliation before justice
Reason: Personal vengeance emerges when legal justice appears unable to protect the violated.
Related Film: The Ox-Bow Incident - Core: Empathy as verdict structure
Reason: Judgment changes only when the abstract case becomes a human injury that must be imaginatively faced.
Related Film: 12 Angry Men
■ Secondary Axes
- Sexual violence and public judgment: A victim’s suffering becomes a test of social recognition and legal truth.
Related Film: The Accused - Southern racial terror: Law confronts a community where racial violence has already organized public life.
Related Film: Mississippi Burning
■ Person
- Director: Joel Schumacher
- Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland
■ Structural Tags
#CourtroomJudgment #RetaliatoryJustice #RacialConflict
■ Attribute Tags
#UnitedStates #1996Film #LegalDramaFilm
