Dead Man Walking Comments

  • Janae 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    any forms of killing are wrong, i do not understand the nun, i am for capital...

  • Jazmyn 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    How should we face and the dignity of death after evil...

  • Daron 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    2010.12.16 Facts are heavier than hearts. Especially when I saw the credit at the end of the play, I knew it was a true story...

  • Christiana 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    Directed by Tim Robbins, the actors perform well and the plot is...

  • Crawford 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    Based on a true story, the two leading actors, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, are great, and the movie is a little long and...

  • Eino 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    Greatest directing and acting performance, included my super beloved Sean Penn and extraordinary Susan...

  • Crawford 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    Christian sermons....

  • Adrienne 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    Sean Penn is one hell of an actor. Great...

  • Clemmie 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    His confessions come from the terror of death. Her absurd kindness is based on self-absorbed religious beliefs and human arrogance. It proves even excellent acting could not be politically or morally persuasive on the necessity of death...

  • Jess 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    As for the problem of the death penalty: of course the law cannot solve it; neither can religion. When the nun spoke of God's forgiveness, the priest opposite her was posing as God's absolute authority over man's destiny, and this authority was precisely used by the executioners. It is commendable that the film does not solve the problem in a self-righteous manner, but retains the complexity of the proposition. But more importantly, it contains respect for every...

Extended Reading
  • Abby 2022-03-22 09:01:50

    You are a profound reversal of my soul

    I have always been fond of the story about Magdalene
       among you who is not guilty, you can stone her first - "The Gospel of John" 
      After Jesus finished speaking calmly, the people dispersed one by one
       Pang said on the execution platform that it was me, you and me who killed Your government...

  • Jarvis 2022-03-23 09:01:55

    Ethics and Fairness

    Sister Helen, with her worldly and refined noble feelings, moved the conflicting parties in the story, sublimated the morality expressed in the film, and moved me as an audience. Given that most of the reviews focus on Helen and Matthew the death row, and with the voices of controversy over whether...

Dead Man Walking quotes

  • Hilton Barber: [at Matthew Poncelet's appeals hearing] The death penalty. It's nothin' new; it's been with us for centuries. We've buried people alive; lopped off their heads with an axe; burned them alive at a public square... gruesome spectacles. In this century, we kept searchin' for more and more *humane* ways... of killin' people that we didn't like. We've shot 'em with firing squads; suffocated 'em, in the gas chamber. But now... Now we have developed a device that is the most humane of all. Lethal injection. We strap the guy up. We anesthetize him with shot number one; then we give him shot number two, and that implodes his lungs, and shot number three stops... his heart. We put 'em to death just like an old horse. His face just, goes to sleep, while, inside, his organs are going through armageddon. The muscles of his face would twist, and contort, and pull, but you see, shot number one relaxes all those muscles so we don't have to see any horror show... We don't have to taste the blood of revenge on our lips, while this, human being's organs writhe, and twist, and contort... We just sit there, quietly. Nod our heads, and say: 'Justice has been done.'

  • Earl Delacroix: When you lose a child, all the memories get sealed it seems - sealed like a shrine.