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

  • McNair: [McNair was Bobby Earl's inefficient defence attorney] Regardless of what you may think of me, I did defend that boy to the very best of my abilities. And, boy, has it cost me. Hell, I lost half of my business from defending that son-of-a-bitch. And he got the chair. You have any idea what my life would be like if I had gotten him acquitted?

  • [first lines]

    Bobby Earl: Hey, you want my money, you best start throwing some elbow into that, boy. A dollar fifty, that's two bits shy of a car wash.

    Kid Washing Car #1: A dollar fifty *each*.

    Bobby Earl: Oh man, now you must got me confused with some other idiot.

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