In darkness until something flips on the switch

You'd assume that over two hours of historical courtroom drama is boring. But Roman Polanski's J'Accuse (The Officer and a Spy) is like the most interesting history lesson. It's all true, accurate, it all happened. Starts off in 1894 when a French captain Alfred Dreyfus in convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island. Brave few had the courage to fight against injustice, defend the captain and even an influential author Emile Zola wrote an open letter in the newspaper L’Aurore and that caused quite a stir in the French government. The movie is close to a masterpiece.