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Netflix Before Nottapon Boonprakob made “The Evil Lawyer,” he had never spent much time thinking about the justice system. That changed the moment he started sitting in on courtroom proceedings – watching judges, lawyers and prosecutors move through rituals that, from the outside, look absolute and sacred, and from the inside, turn out to be something more unsettling: deeply, fallibly human.
“Once we started researching and speaking directly with people inside the system, it became much more human,” he tells Variety. “We began to see the individuals who are part of the system – their faces, their life experiences, their perspectives on the world.”
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