If we can't get beyond these obstacles, lawyer films offer little more than amusement and entertainment. I argue there is more to lawyer films than meets the jaundiced eye. We aren't likely to understand lawyer films unless we learn more about stories, and how they work, and how we are prepared and disabled in working with them. Stories Introduce Us to Conflict and Its Resolution . If we could live free of conflict, tension and the great polarities, we'd have little reason for stories and the film industry would be as endangered as the small family farmer.
Conflict is central to drama, drama to story, and story to life.
Our lives are connected to lawyer films by the reverse path of story, drama, and conflict. To understand the stories in our lives and our films, we need a better understanding of conflict. We need to know all we can about the tension between the forces that induce conflict both in our culture and in our own psyches. Lawyers are stuck working with conflict, making a living from it, and need more understanding of it than they sometimes have. The Care For Character .