Criminal's rights

Shana 2021-12-10 08:01:26

What kind of power and value does a death row prisoner have? In addition to learning lessons from him and useful organs (Zhongte), "Death Rowing" has many religious things, for people like me who have no faith and have never read the Bible. It's a bit difficult to understand. Many foreign films have religious content, which is a big obstacle for us to watch movies. For example, Catholicism is against homosexuality ("God Bless Bobby"). Among the Ten Commandments, you cannot kill. Since you cannot kill, does the death penalty have any value? So before the execution, Sean Penn confessed to the victim's family and observers: No matter who it is, it is wrong to kill, whether it is me, you or the government. This is not a question about the abolition of the death penalty, but a question of how to redeem the sinner, whether a murderer and rapist can and is worthy of forgiveness. Sister Helen physically demonstrated the power of forgiveness. In the end, the criminal never confessed to confession, and found the comfort of love. In the end, he did not die with cursing and hatred. We felt the power of faith (God).
It is true that these murders did not happen to us, there may only be feelings of anger, and there is no such kind of pain on the skin. We can only empathize with ourselves through imagination. The movie talks about a person who firmly opposes the death penalty. After touching the corpse with his hands, he immediately joined the team that agrees with the death penalty. To make a digression, it is related to the murder. When the landlord was slaughtered back then, all the people in the countryside came out to watch and applaud. But those ignorant peasant uncles did not realize that if you wipe out the landlord today, you will be in danger in the future. The reason is very simple: you destroy order, and order will in turn destroy you. Revolutionaries do not respect the lives of landlords, neither do they respect the lives of peasants. Chen Yinke said that "Chinese people are deceitful and foolish", which makes sense.

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Extended Reading
  • Conrad 2022-04-21 09:02:09

    Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn's masterful performances prop up this almost theological lecture. The whole film is constantly asking questions, but not answering them. Is the death penalty too cruel? Does euthanasia really count as mercy? Listening to the death row inmates stating their grievances, I was almost moved. In fact, this is nothing more than a true story. There are heinous crimes in this world, but everyone can repent and get corresponding redemption. I don't think this story makes sense only on a religious level, watching the death row inmate peacefully "roaming" I know I can't forgive him for the victim, but I do admire his courage to face it, to admit it.

  • Dessie 2022-04-22 07:01:29

    The film is concise and powerful. It provides two positions at the same time, so that the author's point of view will not be very prominent and very clear. But it is not without resorting to expression, criminal psychology, Virgin's redemptive love, death penalty, are complex and worth exploring The problems are also very controversial, and some parts of them are not well understood by individuals. These factors are calmly and without traces running through them, making the author himself more like a bystander narrator, and everything is left to the audience to judge.

Dead Man Walking quotes

  • Matthew Poncelet: I was just fucking chicken.

  • Prison guard: Do you have any last words, Poncelet?

    Matthew Poncelet: Yes, I do.

    [pauses]

    Matthew Poncelet: Mr. Delacroix, I don't wanna leave this world with any hate in my heart. I ask your forgiveness for what I done. It was a terrible thing I done, taking your son away from you.

    Clyde Percy: [Softly to his wife] How about us?

    Matthew Poncelet: Mr. and Mrs. Percy, I hope my death gives you some relief.