Blogpost #6: Death Penalty on the Screen

I know every one of us want to watch movies either on cinemas with big screen or just in DVD or from downloadable sites. Well, there are many movies that have been produce since in 90’s. We all want some movies that have some entertaining stuff, thriller, comedy, romance, those genres that was a tragedy or sometime true to life. Today, I will share to you some movies that have a tragedy and some true to life genre; of course it’s also all about my topic, the death penalty. Here it is:

I saw this movie entitled: “The Life of David Gale” written by Charles Randolph and the directed by Alan Parker. This thriller movie was released in February 21, 2003. This movie has been enlightening my heart because some of this scene is also possible that happen. This is a story of a man who has been proven to be not guilty but it’s all over.

There is a man who named David Gale who is a former college professor. Gale was a big oppose of the death penalty. Here is his story. One night there is an attractive student from his class named Berlin and she was drunk too much and tries to seduce Gale but it turn out and accuse Gale as a rapist. Gale’s case has been solved thanks to his fellow professor named Harraway. Few years later, his fellow companion was later found raped and dead with her hand cuffed behid. While having a investigation someone leaves a tape to Kate’s apartment. David Gale was again accused rape and murder then he was put in the death row for execution.

Weeks before his execution, David told that story to one of the journalist name Bitsey Bloom and her assistant, Zack Stemmons. Bitsey Bloom the journalist tried to experiment to let she know what really happen so she tried cuffed her hand like in Harraway’s case. Later she figures out that Harraway killed herself and she proved that David Gale was an innocent but it’s too late, Gale already executed. At the end of the story it turn out that it was all planned to let the public know that executing people is cruel and many innocent people was already involve in this penalty.

Here is the trailer of the movie called "The Life of David Gale"

In this movie, we can learn something, something that is very important. First is judging people is very complicated things we should not judge people and just accuse them for the crime that they are not really do. Second is we should make a further investigation before you accuse someone. Just a tape or video is not strong evidence because we don’t know if that video tape is just an edited and not really what happened. Third is we should not take someone’s life like in my previous blog post life is a very important thing that we have.