Kier didn't intend to judge all the characters in the film, he was just telling us the story of a murderer who was killed. It's a story we're all too familiar with, and every day we see homicides in major news outlets, or news of murderers being sentenced. We will applaud for the murderer to be sentenced to death. This is called killing for life, and we call this fairness. But now many countries have abolished the death penalty or are hesitant to abolish the death penalty. In the eyes of human rights advocates, even if a person has committed a heinous crime and is full of evil, no one has the right to deprive him of his life. You can control him, imprison him, but not kill him, and the right to life cannot be violated, even in the name of justice. The right and the wrong do not answer, just as Keille does not answer. He is just telling a story in which the murderer and the victim share the same fear, struggle, begging, and despair in the face of death. Human nature is the same. Jacek's strangulation and smashing to kill a taxi driver is the same as Jacek's hanging. They are all people who were killed, and there is no difference between them. In the two descriptions of the death process, morality seems to be abstracted away. Both unexplained murders and verdicts that omit court arguments prevent moral and emotional involvement, and allow the audience's energies and attention to be focused entirely on the character's state rather than motives. Without motivation, there is no empathy, and it tends to be neutral and more rational.
The film begins with the corpse of a rat and a hanged cat lying on the damp, dirty floor. The mouse is killed by the cat, the cat is hanged, this kind of naked point is crazy... Then the story takes place in the cross structure of the three story lines of jacek, taxi driver, and lawyer Piotr. Jacek walks the city streets alone, he's a no-nonsense sociopath. He threw stones at the cars under the bridge and snickered, he purposely scare away pigeons in the square, he knocked down a man peeing in a public toilet and left with a smile, he chatted with people asking for directions but Reluctant to tell people how to get there, he used a spoon to flick cream on the glass window in the restaurant to frighten the girls outside the window. The only thing he cared about was having the photo studio zoom in on a picture of a girl who was his dead sister.
Waldemar is a taxi driver who rudely refuses a man and woman who are in a hurry when washing the car. After the man and woman expressed their willingness to wait for him, he acquiesced, but after the car was washed, he drove away in front of the man and woman ...he threw his wife's sandwiches to stray dogs, used his horn to frighten passing pet dogs, he hooked up with young girls, he always bought lottery tickets and got lucky.
Piotr is a young lawyer who believes that punishment does not prevent crime, which is the purpose of the law. He has just passed the bar exam and is officially a lawyer. He excitedly rode his bike to share his joy with strangers driving, even though he got a cold response, he and a woman came to the restaurant to celebrate, and at this time, jacek was sitting in the restaurant preparing the rope to kill... Then jacek Taking Waldemar's taxi, he tied the driver's neck with a rope, saw the approaching train, he hid behind the door, when the train left, he hit the driver's head with an iron bar, and then covered the driver's head with his clothes Drag to the river. The driver, who was still breathing, whispered, "money, box, wife, don't kill me". Eventually he stoned the driver to death. Then he drove his car to the house of a poor child in the village. It seemed that they were friends. Jacek wanted to take the child out for a ride and camping, and the child questioned the origin of his car... The second half of the film came directly to Jacek and was sentenced to death. in the Court of Final Appeal. His lawyer is none other than Piotr. The second half of the film spends a lot of time and space on the conversation between jacek and piotr before the execution. Jacek kept asking the lawyer's own mother if she knew how her mother reacted at this time, just like when we made mistakes when we were young, we were afraid that our parents would teach us a lesson and we were afraid that our parents would be sad. He then told the lawyer to bury his body with his father, and told the lawyer that he had hit and killed his sister while driving while drunk. If it hadn't happened, he might not have left his hometown, won't get lost in the metropolis and his heart, won't kill, won't be imprisoned here, won't face the death penalty... There's a lot of jacek in the film A close-up of his face. At this time, his fearful and vulnerable side contrasts strongly with the cold and dark side of the first half. He was sent to the cold gallows in the struggle and resistance...and the lawyer was caught in the sadness of facing the loss of life. When you face someone who is dying, you are in awe of life, and whatever the past is, everything outside of life will be put on hold. As the lawyer said to the urging guards, "this is a conversation that never ends."
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