“What do you call 1000 layers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start.” You can listen this joke in two American movies: “Philadelphia” and “The wars of the Roses”. I found it funny and made me laugh. If It’s mostly a kind of humor of the American and English taste, I don’t know, maybe it is. Anyway, I think I understood the mockery criticism that lays behind.
It’s considered that to act in a cunning and tricky way is an habitual practice within this profession. Probably, this is not absolutely untruth in some aspects, although I consider that it’s an interested and smart film industry’s point of view for the aim of make thrilling legal drama movies. I’m thinking in “The Lincoln Layer”, “The rainmaker”, “Runaway Jury” or “The Firm”, only to mention a few examples.