"Death Row": A Different Death Penalty Movie

This is a true story, adapted from the real experience of nun Helen Hopkins. In the film, Helen is a sincere Catholic. Because of the entrustment of rapist and murderer Matthew Poncelet, Helen came to the prison alone to visit him. In prison, Matthew told Helen that he was going to be executed soon, and he wanted to use this last week to let Helen help him re-appeal, so as to wash away his "innocent injustice." Although Helen was suspicious of Matthew's remarks, she still chose to help Matthew with her kind heart, and with her firm belief and sincere consolation, Matthew regained the long-lost dignity and redemption in the last seven days of her life. .

It is true that this is a movie about the death penalty, but it is different from the previous movies about the death penalty. Tim Robbins, who once used super-high acting skills to bring us spiritual baptism in "The Redemption of Shawshank", this time simply picked up the guide tube and aimed at this sensitive topic with objectivity, calmness and fairness. , Examined this story with restraint, and showed us the different views of people from different positions on the death penalty.

Perhaps, in his mind, he already had his own answer to the death penalty, but he did not show too much in the film from beginning to end. He did not want to use the film to kidnap the public's thinking. On the contrary, he left us enough room to think, and because of this, it makes this film not just like a public welfare film about the abolition of the death penalty, but the proposition of whether the death penalty will be abolished or not. Elevated to a philosophical level, which arouses people's thinking about human nature.

It is undeniable that this is a subject worthy of consideration for everyone. As Helen said: "Even the most sinful people have their own value." At the end of the film, when Matthew was tied straight to the execution platform, his veins filled with needles for drug injection, and sincerely confessed to the victim’s family, we cannot guarantee whether he will be forgiven by people, but But it can be clearly understood that this Matthew, who has learned to love and learn to regret, will eventually get his own salvation.

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