Through "Justifiable Defense", a brief discussion on the death penalty and torture

Mona 2022-05-16 20:16:46

The first thing to say about this film is the echo between the beginning and the end. At the beginning of the movie, Sean Connery and another university teacher played against each other. Another teacher asked, if you encounter your wife and children being kidnapped and killed, will you support the death penalty? And then let it happen, Sean Connery did not admit the benefits of the death penalty, but he handled it himself; and the name of the movie "Just Cause" I think it refers to the final killing of that Bobby Earl Let’s talk about the death penalty through this film: It is true that the death penalty has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is to shock and deter criminals, and the disadvantage is to let the criminal who has committed the death penalty do everything possible to escape, even at the risk of murdering another person’s life. Even if this person is a murderous demon (the law that punishes demons must be the law) I didn't mention what kind of benevolence, righteousness and morality, what kind of humanization cannot be implemented, and what kind of humanization and moralization from the death penalty is pure nonsense. Some countries are also implementing euthanasia now. It is called humanization, real humanization and moralization. Unless you don’t sentence the person who should be sentenced to death, commute the sentence to life or other, and don’t let him die, then that’s the real thing. Humanization and moralization, of course, aside from the death penalty, torture to extract confessions in the movie has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can quickly make criminals confess their guilt, but it may also make innocent people wronged. I think this is doing more harm than good

There is also a very interesting little detail in the movie. The assistance lawyer who helped Bobby Earl before lost half of his firm's list because of his assistance, and finally sent people to prison, because of what, Because of the media's public opinion, how ironic is this, a person's life, and even the credibility of the police, are in the mouths of a group of people who eat melons?

Finally, let me say that the transition of this movie is very powerful, especially after seeing the death of Sullivan's parents and pushing the door, and then pushing the door in the police station to enter, the transition is really good!

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Just Cause quotes

  • Blair Sullivan: You've got The Trials Of Job ahead of you. The Trials Of Job!

  • Blair Sullivan: You're the first visitor I've had here in two years since them behavioral science boys come to see me. Wanna know about my childhood and shit. Did my folks beat me, abuse me, sex me up? I tried telling 'em there ain't no formula for people like me. What we are dealing with here is just predisposition for an appetite. Good parents, bad parents. No cause and effect. It's just appetite.

    Paul Armstrong: Fuck you.

    Blair Sullivan: [yelling] Let me tell you a few things, Armstrong! One, I'm filled with power! You might think I'm impotent prisoner, handcuffed and shackled, locked in a eight by seven cell each night and day, but I'm filled with strength that reaches way beyond these bars, sir! I can crush anyone I want to just as these hands dialing a telephone! There's no one beyond my reach! You hear me, no one!

    Paul Armstrong: Did you kill her?

    Blair Sullivan: I ain't gonna tell you if I killed that little girl or not. Even if I did, how would you know to believe me? Killing is easy for me. How hard do you think lying is?

    Paul Armstrong: Go to hell!

    Blair Sullivan: True. I will. No doubt about that!