Failing, Again the Term 'Justice'

Rating: 5/10 (27 October 2015)

Okay, yes, this is a movie that I might buy, BUT I am left pondering if I should or would.
Yes, it is well produced, enticing to watch and is a fairly (accurate?) portrayal of circumstances from our human history.
But, the movie left me aching about the shallowness of 'Hollywood' when it comes to dealing with the word 'justice'. IF you take the time to watch the bonus features that come with the DVD, the actors and producers pat themselves on the back for portraying another story where justice is actually served. At least, in the eyes of the rich from our society.
Oh, so watch the movie. It is, mostly, worth the time for the scenery and the quality of acting. But then take some moments afterward to wonder why it is that we are so 'feel good' about human history that registers another lawyer whose first motive was not 'justice' but for the fact that he might make some big money after returning one painting, worth over "$100 million", back to its rightful owners.
So, what. The real people in life took some of that money and donated it to charities and 'holocaust memorials'? Answer me this.
When do we get the movie that addresses this issue: ponder why it must only be multi-million paintings that equate 'justice' for too many in our society whilst we fail to ask how we ensure that the poor among us, today, gain real justice? WE forget the man, woman and child who was too poor to escape such things and whose teeth became the gold bricks that continue to tarnish this world of 'the rich' only being the ones to have a right to justice. Because they have 'gold'.
That is why I left watching this movie feeling despondent. When do WE stop building memorials to holocausts and start BUILDING institutions of democracy that are indeed FOR the poor, on the basis of 'equal before and under the law'?
That is a problem that Hollywood is too reluctant to address because it would challenge their own rich perceptions.
So, watch the movie but watch it with open eyes to its ultimate hypocrisy: it is just another movie about the rich gaining the right to a word poor people are still denied, despite the lessons from what caused the events of 'the Woman in Gold' to transpire.
And that is the saddest comment for our societies of 2015. This movie fails because it glitters with gold.
Don MacAlpine, Wolseley, Saskatchewan, Canada