The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale

  • Director: Alan Parker
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, United States
  • Language: English, Spanish
  • Release date: February 21, 2003
  • Runtime: 2h 10min
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: Життя Девіда Ґейла
  • "The Life of David Gale" is a suspense film released by Universal Pictures, directed by Alan Parker and starring Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet . It was released in the United States on February 21, 2003.
    The film tells the story of David Gore, a university professor who is actively working to abolish the death penalty, and was sentenced to death for raping and killing a companion. The female reporter Bessie tried to find out the truth in the last three days before the death penalty. 

    Details

    • Release date February 21, 2003
    • Filming locations Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    • Production companies Universal Pictures, Intermedia Films, Dirty Hands Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $38,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $19,955,598

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $7,117,225

    Gross worldwide

    $38,955,598

    Movie reviews

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    • By Heloise 2022-12-29 14:29:03

      Is it worth dying to kill?

      The education received since childhood is to kill for life. For a long time, when this concept has been instilled, it is natural to think that this is the undoubted truth.
      After watching a lot of American dramas, I never understood that those murderers were only sentenced to hundreds of years in prison with a few lives on their backs, and then they continued to commit murders in prisons or after escaping from prisons. I didn’t understand such a judicial system. Or, they have the...

    • By Krista 2022-12-28 06:39:12

      soul-stirring look

      After watching House of Cards, I realized that I had never seen a Spacey movie.
      So hurry up and make amends.
      This movie is also one of the most impressive movies for me recently.
      Two desperate people, one got leukemia, and the other made an eternal hatred.
      In order to leave something to the world, they chose to write, direct and act in a blockbuster of the century.
      The process is at the cost of one's own life.
      The ending is the most captivating look.
      Spacey...

    • By Emilio 2022-12-25 13:23:35

      It's ridiculous that 131 death row inmates can't find a single wrong sentence

      After reading it, I feel like a few pretentious "geniuses" who have done extremely stupid things.

      1 During the debate, he said that the death penalty is useless and will not have the effect of reducing the crime rate. He proposed that there are research results to support this point of view, but he later flouted the authoritative research results of experts and professors. The investigation report is bullshit and cannot be passed. A pile of cold data decides a person's life and...

    • By Ariel 2022-12-24 13:42:47

      The values ​​of the entire crew are abnormal and it seems that the behavior of the male protagonist should be despised!

      The hero should be committing suicide! The death penalty is for everyone to vote for! Unscrupulous for your own ends! The film also depicts the selfless justice Ling Ran that he described! For those who oppose the death penalty, you can oppose it and give you a chance to speak and vote, but most people support the death penalty! Just use this dirty method to achieve your goals! Deformed sense of justice, deformed values! If the laws are changed for their perverted behavior! Then those who...

    • By Renee 2022-12-23 20:27:07

      It turned out to be Lacanian philosophy

      You get Lacan's point. Fantasies have to be unrealistic, because the moment, the second, that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore. In order to continue to exist; desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that you want, it's the fantasy of "it". So desire supports crazy fantasies.

      This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. Or why we say the hunt is sweeter than the kill or...

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    • By Dusty 2023-08-15 12:37:51

      Relatively shocking, there is a feeling of sadness. The righteousness in their eyes may not be understood by ordinary people, but this is their belief, as important as the meaning of our existence. Perhaps it is better to use it for one's own righteousness, in order to better reflect the meaning of...

    • By Anthony 2023-08-14 16:56:35

      Fantasy must go beyond reality, because the moment you get it...you can't and won't want it again; in order to continue to exist...the object of desire must never be attained, you want not "it" itself, but "it"...

    • By Price 2023-08-09 20:34:09

      As a movie, it is undoubtedly good. Although the content is actually far-fetched and bloody, and the ending is too easy to guess, but when I finished watching it, I was still stuck in a panic, and I repeatedly recalled every detail in the film. This is how the film should...

    • By Giles 2023-07-13 14:32:22

      Yes, shocked but not moved, and I don't think two university professors in reality would do this. I still don't know if the hero arranged for his own death. Is my logic dead? (The substitute used in the videotape, hehe =...

    • By Shane 2023-07-04 21:12:07

      The tendency is too heavy (if you don't agree with the point of view it wants to express, you may not feel the whole film), and the suspense is too shallow, and it is not suspenseful in itself, but even so, with the final Turandot, the calm David Ge When Er appeared in the video and proved the absurdity of death with death, he was...

    Movie plot

    Reporter Bessie Bloom ( Kate Winslet ornaments) to the prison death row interview with David Gore ( Kevin Spacey ornaments ) . David is a respected university professor of philosophy and a staunch opponent of the death penalty, but he faces the death penalty for being charged with murder. During the interview, Bessie questioned the court's trial, and she decided to investigate the truth of the matter personally to return David's...
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    Evaluation action

    Rescue the wronged death row prisoners from the brink of death, this kind of subject always feels like deja vu. Although the film’s attitude and technique are very ambitious, it doesn’t bring much novelty compared with some previous films involving the death penalty, and it’s not as cleverly handled as "Death Prisoner's Walk". When it comes to the cut-in angle of the film specifically, it focuses more on revealing the judicial penalty...
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    Movie quotes

    • David Gale: Death is a gift.

    • David Gale: We spend our whole life trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. Then there comes a point - a moment - in life when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift. You wonder. All I can tell you is that by this time tomorrow I'll be dead. I know when. I just cannot say why. You have 24 hours to find out.

    • [Governor Hardin and David Gale are engaged in a debate on Batter's Box]

      Governor Hardin: Alan, let me say something I always say and I'm gonna keep on saying. And that is that I HATE killin'. That's why my administration is willing to kill to stop it.

      David Gale: So, you don't subscribe to the idea that 'a good state is the one that protects its most despised members?'

      Governor Hardin: It's a nice liberal idea. But, like most nice liberal ideas, naive.

      David Gale: It's a quote from you, Governor. From your first state attorney campaign

      Governor Hardin: [flustered] You've got me, Professor. But let me, in my defense, offer YOU a quote. Winston Churchill: 'If you're not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart, if you're still a liberal at thirty, you've got no brain.'

      [studio audience laughs]

      David Gale: So, basically, you feel, to choose another quote, 'society must be cleansed of elements which represent its own death.'

      Governor Hardin: Well, yes. I'd have to agree.

      [laughs]

      Governor Hardin: Did I say that too?

      David Gale: No, that was Hitler.