1. Does a group of people have the power to condemn another person to death?
2. Since punishment only acts as a deterrent, and since punishment cannot reduce crime, why continue to punish severely?
3. What is the dignity of a person sentenced to death?
4. Is there a real distinction between people? How is the murderer's love for his sister different from those of the judges? Are there really distinctions between high and low? Even though the person's behavior and speech are old-fashioned?
5. Death is accidental, so his sister died for no reason? Does it reflect the director's view that God is absurdly evil?
6. People are never ready for the moment when the death is about to end. The driver thought about his money before he died, and the murderer thought about being buried with his family and giving his sister's photo to his mother. To die before it ends
7. A murderer has only loved one person in the world, but he doesn’t love others → maybe we can only love one or two people in our lifetime, limited by our own experience?
8. The sentence of death accurately reproduces Foucault's model of the prison. The deliberately objective perspective highlights the cold and inhumanity of technocracy.
9. What does the law mean here, can lawyers change society's judgment on murderers? Can his reading and study change the system and cognition of this society? So he finally wept in vain.
10. Why do murderers kill, if there is a murderous nature? Desperately killing people after moving from the countryside to the city, is it because they desperately want to escape this strange city?
11. Fragmented narrative footage reflects?
12. What does a narrative that interweaves different characters in the same scene reflect?
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