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Isolation

posted 19 years ago by dccallag
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Have just seen this film and what struck me most about it was the total isolation of Pierrepoint. He couldn't discuss his job with anyone and had no-one with whom he could unburden himself. It seemed strange to me that he applied for the job in the first place, when his mother was clearly against it and he must have grown up knowing the tension between his parents regarding his father's work. This showed him to be a man of little questioning about the ethics of what he was doing and it was a personal tragedy that he only came to a different view much later in life.

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[–] Hopealways 17 years ago

I found it awful that he was never even able to mention it to his wife- the burden he must have carried around with him must have weighed heavily on his shoulders.
I don't think people knew what he did until he went over to Germany to hang the Nazi was criminals ?

Well it's only the beginning baby L.A. in the summer anything could happen right?

[–] PhantomHelmsman 17 years ago

I still think it's a little shakey to add Pierrepoint to the list of those denouncing capital punishment, going from what seems to be a small change of opinion in the 1970s radio interview you can find on the BBC website. There's only one person who knows for sure what he thought, and he's been dead for over a decade...