Easily one of the best movies I've ever seen and one of the very few that have ever made me cry.
shareYes, it was a very emotional movie. I think it was this movie that made me realize I was against the death penalty. If that was its intention, then it worked. The scene with his family was strange, I couldn't imagine seeing my brother/son knowing he was going to die. I would love to read the book some day.
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shareYou people are mentally defective. I could only cry for the innocent victims who this POS raped and murdered just because he felt like doing it. The only satisfying part of the entire movie was when he got exterminated like a worthless cockroach at the end.
share2 liscarkat - what makes you think that when the OP mentions that the film made them cry, then they were simply sympathising with Poncelet's character alone despite his heinous crimes? He/she could've just meant the film overall in general without necessarily taking any sides or moral stances.
sharewhy? this movie is not sad. it is hilarious!
imagine it your daughters he rape and kill? you still sad for this prik?
this man rape and murder two young people. he is lucky they give thug humane death with injections. he should be behead for such evils!!
Well...
People often believe that victims' relatives lose some innocence, sanity and rationality if they are willing to take violent revenge on the culprits responsible rather than let the law punish them. And although its understandable and here its often very HARD for people to find moral objectivity as they are overwhelmed by massive grief, its not encourageable for them to take law into their own hands and the law itself is generally against it.
So in that sense, this type of argument while valid but in practice, a non-sequitur?
"you still sad for this prik?"
I wasn't sad for him and even wouldn't be for folks of such type even if it WEREN'T people close to me who are victims.
On the latter point about disagreeing with victims' vengeance and also not being on the side of death penalty, I actually got this information from an excerpt in a Russian 1992 show "Theme" ("Tema") that was about death penalty in Russia, and it was the late Galina Starovoitova who said that "we shouldn't ask victims here for permission, they are unable to be fully objective, with all respect to their loss and suffering" when it comes to executing the culprit topic.
Both its presenter Vladislav Listiev and Galina Starovoitova were murdered in the 90s, the former one shot dead on the evening of March the 1st in 1995, the later female was killed in 1998. Both seem to be gang assassinations, hired killing, the first one in particular at the time has shocked the nation.
And there is apparently MORE to this topic in the OVERALL picture than whether or not you feel "sad" (however relatively!) or you think they are getting "just desserts" by receiving death penalty even if you fully know that they are 100% GUILTY.
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