To the naked eye, a murder may as direct as one’s causation of another’s death, but to a judge, the question becomes who was at fault, and what was the motive? As we watched The Talented Mr. Ripley, we were prompted by Judge Miller to assume the rolls of prosecution and defense attorneys, to debate who was the blame for Dickie Greenleaf’s death. It was interesting to ping-pong discussions of internal motives and secret plots of Mr. Tom Ripley and briefly assume the role of defending or accusing someone of intentional murder. To us, it was just a short span of a half hour where we debated on the fate of a fictional character, but I couldn’t help but wonder what the immense pressure and enormous responsibility an actual attorney would take on. This riveting discussion led to even more riveting questions, like how would an actual prosecutor obtain the evidence, and would the jury believe it? The plot of this movie was quite intriguing, and I left with a newfound appreciation and curiosity for the process of accessing a murder to its true justice.