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As the oldest and harshest punishment in the world, the death penalty has gone through thousands of years of history, from the ancient fire cannon and the cracking of the car, to the modern transformation from barbarism to humanity, the electric chair of decapitation and the shooting, but the purpose of the death penalty will not change with the method of execution: to deprive the offender of the right to live, and to deter and educate those who may commit crimes in the future. There is a lot of debate about whether to abolish the death penalty, with less than one-third of the world's countries still retaining the death penalty, while the United States, which still retains the death penalty in more than half of the states, can be seen as a typical example of the "war over whether to abolish the death penalty". Not to mention how costly the judiciary is to try the death penalty in the United States, a single point is enough to keep most people's distance from the death penalty sentence – who can guarantee that death row inmates are not wronged?
Luo Zhenyu once put forward the following view in his Luo Ji thinking with several unjust cases: The abolition of the death penalty should not be discussed by the judicial authorities, but to change the ethical concept of ordinary people like you and me who "return the eye for the tooth with the tooth". The most powerful weapon that can change the perception of ordinary people is not the whole set of judicial or philosophical theories, but the legends such as the legends that have been told since Homer and the folk legends of the feud between the White Snake and fahai. So, no matter how many well-spoken reasons you've heard about the abolition of the death penalty, it may not be as realistic as this intuitive and profound film, The Life of David Gore. The film has a Douban score of 8.7, and although it has only been nominated for the Best Director Award at the Berlin Film Festival, it has a very high quality in terms of completion.
"Déjà vu" big coffee player
The subject of saving wronged death row inmates from the brink of death always has a sense of déjà vu, and this film has a little more novelty than previous films in terms of expression and attitude ambition, trying to use an extreme case to trigger thinking about the system, crime and punishment, or self-sacrifice for dreams. Alan Parker, a very unique director, has a lot of power in the film and television industry, and every few years a play is not said and the style of each play has changed a lot. The film "Labyrinth", adapted from the famous rock band Pink Floyd's music album of the same name, undoubtedly shows its outstanding creative talent and is regarded as a rare masterpiece in the history of cinema because of the anti-war and spicy irony and deep thinking about the social system. The film has a bit of a thriller suspense film because of the use of many passages in the filming method with disorderly montage connections between many paragraphs, as well as the quirky angle of the shot and words such as "self-sacrifice".
The film's solid cast has also become a major attraction, kevin Spacey played the complex and multi-personality male protagonist David Gore, who is impressed by his fickle personality and deep and introverted and unique acting skills to interpret the different personalities. Kevin is particularly good at playing a variety of sinister and cunning villains, starring in a large number of morally problematic characters such as the calculating cripple in the perverted murderer "Very Suspect" in "Seven Deadly Sins" and winning an Oscar. In this film, he once again showed his old and spicy acting skills as always, and performed the inner drama with the temperament of not speaking and full of drama.
Kate Winslet, who starred in the film Titanic and was nominated for best actress at the 70th Academy Awards and the 53rd Golden Globe Awards, played Betsy Bloom, a well-known journalist at a New York news magazine who tracked down death row inmate David Gore for the last three days. Not only has this person received mostly positive reviews in the films he starred in, but he also often refused the opportunity to appear in big-budget films such as "Anna and the King" and "The Lord of the Rings" because of his participation in low-budget independent films such as "North African Lover" and "Holy Smoke and Fire". Since then, she has been nominated for the Oscar three times for starring in "Life Together" directed by Richard Eyre, co-starring with well-known actor Kim Carey in the comedy "The Eternal Sunshine of the Beautiful Heart" and "Being a Mother" directed by Todd Field, and even returned to her old career in the tv industry for many years, and won the highest award in american television , the 63rd Emmy Award for Best Actress in the Television Film Category. Looking at the films that Winslet has acted in, it can be known that she is an actor who has requirements for the script, and this film shows the brave and calm and soft-hearted female reporter to the fullest.
Laura Linney basically continues the performance in "Honesty is Priceless", competently interpreting the strength and vulnerability of tragic characters. The man won high praise and better role choice for his superb acting skills in playing Richard Gere's ex-girlfriend in "First Fear", and the role of Sammy in "You Do Things I Am Assured" received rave reviews and was nominated for an Academy Award. Since then, she has embarked on a major transformation that constantly challenges new roles and has gained a lot, but most of them are women with charming and beautiful appearances and complex hearts, and the interpretation in this film has also added a lot to the film and won the Golden Bear Award nomination.
Frustrated philosophy professors murder themselves for ideals
Many directors have shown their reflections on death in their works, and Spanish director Alejandro Amenavar once explained in "Deep Sleep" that "for those painful bodies, only death can liberate the soul", but the film has always insisted on abolishing the death penalty and saving lives on the margins. The story takes place in Texas, where the death penalty is most carried out in the United States, and the male protagonist David Gore and his female assistant Constance campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty with little success. However, there is such a firm belief and persistent pursuit of ideals of people despite misunderstandings and scolding, and even at the expense of their own lives to practice "moths to put out fire", the protagonist of this film is undoubtedly one of them.
The film opens with beneath the scene of beneath Kate Winslet, a journalist who seems to have lost weight, abandons a smoking and broken-down car, desperately running down a long highway without a driver's rescue and exhausted and unable to do anything about it. Experienced audiences know at a glance that the film is doomed to have a happy ending, and then the film does indeed unveil the truth layer by layer in the process of female journalist Bessie interviewing the male protagonist David Gore and the two-line narrative structure of David Gore's previous life fragments. It turned out that the male protagonist, who was also a professor of philosophy at the University of Austin and a loving father, should have been proud of the spring breeze in the anti-death penalty movement, but he did not expect to have the opportunity to argue with the mayor and always listen to his words in class, but he gradually entered the downhill road because of the high and low in eloquence.
The male protagonist, who is silent and speechless, forced to be dumbfounded by the opposition's understatement of "You say that the death penalty will cause an unjust case, can you give an example" because the female student tried unsuccessfully to seduce and then bite back and claimed to rape the defendant in court. Although the case was eventually closed due to insufficient evidence, the male protagonist suffered from the bitterness of his wife leaving and being smeared with black marks by his son, and he borrowed wine all day long. Unexpectedly, he was once again in the spotlight because his former close comrade-in-arms, Constance Harawi, was also raped and tortured to death, and finally because of various evidence that seemed to indicate that he was the biggest suspect, he was once again imprisoned for murder and faced a situation of "beheading" three days later.
As a result, the female protagonist who had preferred to go to jail without compromise was hand-picked by the male protagonist who was about to be executed to do the last three days of tracking, and she also did not lose her hopes in the interview process to find all kinds of mysteries and various evidence to try to overturn the case. Finally, in the question of "the form of the deceased is calm enough not to be forced to die", he got the video tape that was enough to prove the innocence of the male protagonist, in which the woman calmly swallowed the key of the handcuffs into her abdomen, put on a plastic bag and wrapped herself in tape, took off her clothes and put on handcuffs, and gradually became a cold corpse. However, just when all the audiences were eagerly waiting for the heroine to use the evidence to clear the injustice for the male protagonist, they waited for the bad news that the male protagonist had been executed, and the female protagonist who was tortured by regret and regret also cried in the sound of public protest and celebration.
If the story ends here, it is no different from those ordinary unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, so the director uses the advantage of "big brain hole" to make it a different ending: David Gore used his life to make the unjust case finally become a fact. It turned out that the male protagonist, who could not come up with the example of unjust cases caused by the current death penalty system because of "death without proof", and his friend Constance, who had blood cancer, designed a shocking unjust case, and the female protagonist invisibly became a pawn in this game. Thankfully, the two men ended up proving with their lives that the death penalty system could cause a fatal blow to the opposition by causing an unjust case, and gained popular understanding and a re-examination of the death penalty.
Is it worth paying for killing?
The suspense structure of the film is very strict, and the retelling formed by the 3-day interview will lead the viewer step by step into the trap but gradually guide the truth, and the biggest suspense baggage shaken at the end is undoubtedly shocking. On the surface, the story creates an atmosphere of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, but the undisclosed truth is that the supporters of the abolition of the death penalty use radical martyrdom, that is, suicide scams, to fake the unjust imprisonment of death row prisoners and create a controversy over the existence of the death penalty. Many fans and friends are introducing whether David Gore's approach is helpful in promoting his views against the death penalty, or whether this "martyr" logic is worth advocating, but Dawa feels that the thinking of the film should not stop here.
It is important to know that opposing the death penalty is not opposing sentencing, after all, no one would disagree with the idea that those who have done something wrong should be punished, so we use the law as the sole basis for trial. However, the jury of judges who really formulate the law and the final judgment result are actually people with the same passions as us, which is bound to mix the results of the sound of the supervisor, which also means that there will be injustice and objectivity, and it is not cruel to make choices that cannot be changed or irreparable knowing that mistakes may be made? So Constance, who learned that he was terminally ill and shortly dead, and David Gore, who had lost hope in life, gave their lives for their ideals.
Obviously, this way of realizing the ideal is radical to the point that it seems almost crazy to outsiders, but throughout history, which reform was not accompanied by the sacrifice of the bloody, and the director also used Gore's mouth to expound the essence of this martyrdom: in fact, martyrdom is only an extreme means for idealists to achieve their wishes. The practice of sincere, compassionate, and rational people in realizing their ideals through self-sacrifice when they are cornered is actually worthy of praise and praise. Moreover, if there had been the uncompromising spirit of this philosophy professor who generally did not compromise for the sake of ideals and beliefs, it is certain that the sad story similar to Hugjiletu would not have been repeated again and again.
Everyone has an ideal, and how much will you put into your own ideal?
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