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Do Innocent People Really Die？？？


Tale with a Twist or A Twisted Tale?
The Life of David Gale encapsulated both of these features.
The progression of the movie and how the filmmakers slowly revealed bits and pieces of the story, yet still leaving the viewer utterly confused about where the movie is going was amazing.

This movie shows:
1) Exactly how easy it is to send a respectable, polite, harmless and especially - capable - person to living hell (the orchestrated "rape").
2) How hard it is to fight an/the established system.
3) "The system" does not work and innocent people DO die.
4) How committed people can be - how people dedicate their lives to a just cause - how far are people able to go for that cause.
It also depicts how mind-boggling the measures can sometimes be...kinda scary.

This movie tries to show us all that plus to make us think of something we don't talk much and seriously enough about - unless it touches our own personal lives.
That's the best thing about this movie - bringing the issue to the table and letting you decide, think, contemplate..
The only thing that the makers of this movie could have done better is to develop the story further, show more about the 'anti capital punishment ' movement, dig deeper, go for more depth and breadth because this plot and this point are worthy of just that.
In other words, it was a little too shallow and flat.

This movie HAS a meaning (which 99.9% of our contemporary movies DO NOT ), it HAS a depth (which almost NONE of our contemporary movies do ) it makes one think - in other words - it stimulates discussion and thought (which NONE of our contemporary movies do ).
It is open minded, strips down the system and addresses human character.
It could make a better job out of it, but still it's better than all of that other disgusting and intelligence-offending junk (movies that you can see for example in AMC, Regal...not talking about independent, some foreign movies - that's a different level ) out there that some of us even dare to call 'movies '...

【Kevin Spacey】Life of David Gale【Laura Linney】
Kevin Spacey's acting; Good overall story; A Shocking Ending !!!!
In this movie, Kevin Spacey, a philosophy professor, has been wrongly convicted on 1st degree murder in Texas of all places, and will be executed.
A reporter that comes to visit him in prison, thinks she is getting a story about how a tenured, successful, happy professor who is so anti-death penalty is getting what he so fears and looks down upon.
Apparently, Spacey didn't really commit the haneous act against his friend, as many think.

What I the most, being that Im a philosophy major are the symbolisms and comparisons to Socrates and taking an unjust punishment prove a point.
Socrates was unjustly convicted of 'corrupting the youth ' but wanted to quietly take his punishment of drinking hemlock.
He did so, because he believed strongly in civil disobedience, which would anger people enough to get rid of an unjust and flawed system.
That is the same thing that Spacey did.
He is quietly taking a punishment he doesn't deserve, to show people how unreliable the death penalty is...

Quite frankly, it's obvious to me that this movie has received poor ratings because it has taken on a controversial cause.
Death-penalty supporters will hate it, because they will think it makes an effective case against the death penalty.
Death-penalty opponents will hate it because they will think it portrays death penalty opponents in a negative light.

I, myself, had been straddling the issue.
On the one hand, I have no qualms about executing child-molesters, rapists, and murderers.
I don't value their lives at all.
Im against the death penalty because I KNOW damned well that we have executed innocent men, and will continue to do so: it's a statistical certainty.
If it hasn't been done yet, it will be done at some point in time in the future. Nothing could possibly be more unjust than wrongfully executing a (wo)man for a crime (s)he didn't commit.
This movie has convinced me that the death penalty must be opposed : if not for ideological reasons, then at the least for the hard cold reality that innocent (wo)men will be executed.
Anyways, back to the movie. It's a masterpiece.
A movie-goers experience is based upon the quality of the story and of the filming; to be general.


My praises to Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, and Laura Linney for excellent acting...