The film is set against the backdrop of the debate over whether the death penalty should be abolished in Texas. The entire film unfolds in flashbacks, beginning with David Gore, who is about to be executed four days later after six years in prison for the rape and murder of Constance, a professor with whom he was working to abolish the death penalty. After six years of silence, he was willing to be interviewed for three days, two hours a day, for two—$500,000 and a reporter he appointed.
I will not repeat the redundant plots of the plot
. I think the movie is strung together by three videotapes.
The first videotape
After finishing the interview on the first day (or the second day?), the female reporter returned to the motel and found that her door was open. There was a videotape in the room. The video was only a few minutes, and the content was Constance suffocated on the kitchen floor with a plastic bag over his head and handcuffed behind his back.
This is obviously the video of the crime scene, which looks very shocking (it can be ruled out as a forgery, because it can be compared with the photos of the crime scene and cannot be faked), the female reporter realized at the first time that this is only a part of the complete video, More information must be in the full video, so I followed the chart, but there was no progress.
The next day, she slept until the sun rose. When brushing her teeth, she had a whim, and ran back to the house at the crime scene (there are still people living there and you can pay to visit) to simulate. The female reporter personally tried Constance’s experience, and at the moment of dying Realizing that Constance committed suicide, if the evidence—that is, the complete video—is not taken out, someone must be wrongly sentenced to death, which will prove that the system of death sentences is flawed, and then have the opportunity to cancel the death penalty.
After a series of analyses, they concluded that the tapes were hidden somewhere, most likely Constance's close aide, Cowboy.
second tape
The female reporter and his assistant tried their best to get the videotape hidden in the cowboy's house on the afternoon of the execution day, and they really recorded the whole process: the video starts with Constance talking to the assistant, and then she takes off her pajamas and puts the Swallowing the handcuff key in his stomach (to create the illusion of being killed), sealing his mouth with tape, putting a plastic bag over his head, cuffing his hand behind his back, and then suffocating in front of the camera, after finishing After the cowboy appeared on the camera, he went over to take the pajamas that had been thrown on the ground, and the video was over here.
This video can fully prove that Constance committed suicide in order to fight the death penalty system, and she did it with the help of assistants. Then he watched David Gore get caught, imprisoned, sentenced, and about to be executed. . .
After getting all this, the female reporter desperately ran to the execution prison, but the car broke down on the road and had to run three miles. When she got there, David Gore had been executed, and she cried. . .
The videotape was revealed shortly after, and there was a lot of discussion, but nothing was said about the fate of the system.
The female reporter was muddleheaded because she felt that David Gore was sacrificed and she could have saved it, it was her responsibility, until one day she received a parcel with a videotape and a piece of paper that wrote Yes - "This is the key to your freedom".
The third videotape
The third videotape has a few more shots than the second one, and David Gore also enters the shot, he touches the plastic bag that suffocated Constance, left fingerprints, and then faces the camera. Camera turned off. . . This is the end of the film.
The complete story was revealed at the last moment of the analysis of
the movie. Although you can probably guess the quality scales and claws in the process of watching, you will still breathe a sigh of relief when you see it at the end. The plot of the whole story was edited very fragmentarily by the director, and the timeline was also processed. The final complete piece should be like this:
1. David Gore and Constance are scholars who agree that the death penalty in Texas should be abolished system, but years of struggle to no avail
2. David Gore's life is a mess, his wife is outside (goes to Spain four times a year), he is falsely accused of rape (seduced) by a schoolgirl who dropped out of school, and he loses his name, loses his job, loses custody of his son, and gets into alcoholism
3. Kang Stains suffered from incurable leukemia and died soon
4. They took pity on each other and started a more intimate lover relationship
5. One of them died soon, and the other was despairing, so the idea of sacrificing themselves to fight the system came up
6. Their help in the cowboy The next suicide plan was implemented, Constance committed suicide, David Gore was caught and sentenced to death, the cowboy watched everything silently with the video tape
7. David Gore has been silent since he was caught, waiting for the final moment.
8 . During the trial, his lawyers made some low-level mistakes at his request, and the Cowboys testified against him in court—all to secure his death sentence.
9. Before the final moment, he He suddenly spoke, first to ensure
that the matter would be disclosed by reporters after his death and overturn the death penalty system, but to get a large sum of money for his son I think there are three things to
watch for this movie that can trigger discussions through the media
. One is that the subject itself is attractive enough, and the other is that the director's editing makes people unconsciously drawn into it, and the wonderful performances of more than 30 actors. Well worth spending two or three hours to see.
Finally, I want the death penalty in Texas to be abolished.
Just checked online, no.
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