Why didn't he say he was WRONGLY convicted of rape ?
Julia could have quickly shot down that accusation and they could have continued on in their relationship without that big obstacle.
shareI wondered the same thing. But this movie makes it confusing. One minute it's he's wrongly convicted but served time because he couldn't prove it. Then later in the film the Tv announcer says that he was wrongly convicted. Which makes a plot hole because when his children's mother try's to use it against him in court. This would have been thrown out because he would have been exonerated of the charges. For the TV announcer to know he was convicted wrongly this had to be on public records. Which his judge and lawyer should have already known. The movie doesn't make it clear if he was let out because of new evidence or he served time but could never prove he didn't do it but people "know" he didn't do it.
- "It's like you gotta be disrespected and thrown out the exit to get the message" - Talib Kweli
And to add to the confusion, the mother's lawyer claimed that Monty was convicted 16 years ago, sentenced to 8 years and has been on probation ever since his release. So how do we go from that to "he was wrongly convicted"? They don't bother to tell how us how the wrongfulness was supposedly established. If this wrongful conviction is public knowledge, why would he still be on probation? And wouldn't this have come out when Social Services got involved after the fire?
I won't even start on how stupid it was for Monty to try to get custody of his daughters and not tell his lawyer he was convicted of a sex crime.
I like several of the actors in this movie, which is why I stuck it out until the end, but the above is just a small example of why this movie failed for me.
I feel the same as you. I give the movie a "C" because I like the actors and actresses but this issue makes the movie hard to watch and take serious.
- "It's like you gotta be disrespected and thrown out the exit to get the message" - Talib Kweli