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Dead Man Walking - College Paper

Dead Man Walking

The film УФ is a film about redemption. The film is
directed by Tim Robbins. Susan Sarandon plays a Nun called Sister Helen
Prejean. She is asked by a convicted murderer to get him a lawyer, and then
later is asked to be his spiritual advisor. The convicted killer is named
Matthew Poncelet, and he is played by Sean Penn. The film is set in the
Angola state penitentiary, in Louisiana. Matthew Poncelet first asks her to
get him a lawyer so he can repeal his Death sentence. Sister Helen gets him a
lawyer, but they fail after several good attempts to get him off death row.
Sister Helen begins to come to him almost every day after Poncelet asks her
to be his spiritual advisor ...

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eventually
finds a good soul in Matthew Poncelet, a person no one else knows.
Matthew constantly denies to Sister Helen, himself, and to God that he had
committed his horrible crime. Poncelet continues to blame his problems on
other things such as his father dying early in his life, his drug use, his
immaturity, and that he was unable to stand up to his partner in the brutal
crime. Sister Helen urges Poncelet to come clean and face the part that he
took in the crime. And at nearly the last minutes of the film he tells the
truth. Though he tells the truth of his sin, he is still put to death by lethal
injection.
The purpose of this film, I believe, was to show that capital punishment
is not right in all circumstances, but the redemption and preservation of the
human soul being better. Tim Robbins tried to show how most people and
even more accurate, Christian people tend to always want vengeance for a
crime. Most of them have a line from the old ...

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Added: 12/6/2007 01:31:58 AM
Category: American History
Type: Free Paper
Words: 1075
Pages: 4

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