电影American Traitor基于真实历史事件改编，老戏骨Al Pacino再展《闻香识女人》之功力，再次用长达数分钟的结庭辩词震撼陪审团，他不单是为女主辩护，更是请陪审团回忆国父们建国的初衷。一通陈词之后，女主的八项控罪被免了七项，她参与广播剧的行为仍然被视为共谋而有罪，也是恰当。
二战时女主在德国，参加了柏林对美国的广播，并吸引了3千万美国粉丝，她是不是个“美奸”就成为了法庭争辩的中心。为她辩护的律师却没有循着这个思路来论辩，而是提醒陪审团，国父当初建国，是为了防止暴君、暴政、暴民，如今，陪审团千万不可以因为爱国热情高涨，因为惩罚战犯情绪激动，而祭出绞索，把一个被胁迫的女子当做出气筒、替罪羊、正义声张的管道，他请陪审团设身处地想一下，如果自己身处柏林，被枪指着，为了苟活，是不是也会这样做？那么这样做，难道就是“叛国”吗？
很值得庆幸的是陪审团还算冷静、还算理智，没有被报纸上铺天盖地的“绞死她！”或者“不判她有罪你就有罪了！”之类的左右，作出了公平的结论。
当然，女主在德国找到真爱、自己原生家庭破碎之类，文艺创作味道多了点，如同王佳芝下不了狠心，没有完成党交给她的任务，只能说还是长了肉心的业余人士罢。
精彩台词摘录如下：
“Anyone who thinks, must think of entering this war as they would of suicide.” Eleanor Roosevelt said that.
“Never think that this war, no matter how justified, is not a crime” And that is Ernest Hemingway.
But neither of them was on trial for treason, why is that?
Like Miss Gillars, they opposed our involvement in the war.
And like Miss Gillars, they spoke out about it.
But unlike Miss Gillars, neither of them had a gun to their head.
And unlike Miss Gillars, their words were not spoon fed to them by the Nazis.
Miss Gillars is on trial for eight counts of treason, for reading from a script she did not write, saying words she did not believe in, and being ordered to say these words on penalty of death.
And now this prosecution would have her hanged.
“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.”
I’ve heard that before. That’s the First Amendment.
Mrs. Roosevelt, Hemingway and all the others, they say what they said, and our American laws protected them.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you must understand.
America is watching.
The world is watching us, all of us.
If Miss Gillars is found guilty, freedom of speech may no longer be our right.
It will be a privilege, and a privilege can be revoked at any time, for any reason.
But let’ be honest, right now, Axis Sally was not a person.
Axis Sally was a persona, a character that Miss Gillars played on a radio show.
And here’s the long and short of it.
Nobody died.
Not a single, solitary American life was lost because of Miss Gillars’ radio broadcast, not one.
That’s a fact.
On the other hand, many a worried parent, American mothers, fathers, they all got comfort, because they were hearing about their son’s whereabouts through her radio programs.
Millions listened to each and every broadcast every week.
Yet this unjustly maligned and accused woman sits here today, fighting for her life, even though there’s not a signle shred of evidence, no evidence that any of her broadcasts were harmful to this country, or they in some way, undermined the morale of our fighting soldiers.
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Don’t forget, that was a part she was forced to play.
Who is really responsible for those words?
It was the ugly propaganda machine of the Third Reich, Goebel’s and Hitler’s words, not Miss Mildred Gillars’ words. No.
Let’s stop for a minute.
And let’s just take a look at what’s really going on here.
Millions of lives were lost.
I don’t know if you can win a war that cost so much.
But I don know that there isn’t a person in this room who wasn’t affected by this war, not a person.
So what do we do?
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We want justice for this war.
We want our enemies to pay dearly for what they took from us.
And we’re not wrong for wanting this.
But we must pause.
We must be vigilant in where we point the finger.
The woman who sits in this chair here is not your enemy.
She never was.
We cannot let our pain for our loss, our feelings, cloud our judgment.
Confuse blind justice with blind vengeance.
I have to say, this feels like vengeance.
We must not sacrifice this woman at the holy altar of patriotism, which very easily could be covering up a lynch mob!
Then the tyranny which we fought against for years will become us.
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The war is over. Axis Sally’s persona is over. Miss Gillar as a person is here. Give her life back, and her freedom.
She’s an American. She always was an American. Let’s treat her like one.
We are not going to kill this woman because she managed to somehow survive, are we?
We are going to do that?
I don’t think so.
Well, I hope not.
