I went into the movie opposed to the death penalty and came out of it the same way.
I would definitely recommend this film to other people.
What really struck me about the movie is that Herzog did not choose a case where there was a lot of debate about whether the person was guilty, and he didn't shy away from the fact that he committed a horrible crime. It wasn't about feeling bad for this person or feeling that he was treated unfairly so much as about feeling whether anyone at all deserves the death penalty.
I think the moment that got to me the most was the father talking about how he ended up handcuffed together with his son. Despite what I said above about it not being about sympathy it did give me sympathy for the father, who was someone I did not expect to feel sympathy for.
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I would definitely recommend this film to other people.
What really struck me about the movie is that Herzog did not choose a case where there was a lot of debate about whether the person was guilty, and he didn't shy away from the fact that he committed a horrible crime. It wasn't about feeling bad for this person or feeling that he was treated unfairly so much as about feeling whether anyone at all deserves the death penalty.
I think the moment that got to me the most was the father talking about how he ended up handcuffed together with his son. Despite what I said above about it not being about sympathy it did give me sympathy for the father, who was someone I did not expect to feel sympathy for.