Difference between revisions of "Tim Robbins (dir.), Dead Man Walking (1995 film)"

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Film, USA 1995.

Links

• Dead Man Walking (1995) directed by Tim Robbins, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. IMDb

Reviews

• cineman.de German review, but interesting as it criticises the cinematic techniques at the end of the film (parallel sequences execution/murder/injection) and the "Christian touch" of the film in total. Plus commentaries on the review cineman.de Interesting is the first one, as the author does not avoid the tendency toward "now we can imagine how it is in real life".

• Suntimes.com An enthusiastic review by famous Roger Ebert declaring Dead Man Walking "a spiritual drama". Giving keen observations on the two main characters.
• Rotten Tomatoes.com A fantastic site that gathers a huge amount of reviews on movies from magazines and online publications. It gives site users' comments on movies as well. Unfortunately some of the links concerning Dead Man Walking are not available anymore.
• filmcritic.com: a film review from 1995 by Christopher Null. In the first three paragraphs of the review he only summarizes the content. But in the 4th paragraph he offers a rather different opinion on the film, calls its beginning "flawed", while in the end "the movie comes together quite nicely." His final rather provocative question could probably heat up our discussion...

just a short remark: your summaries do not help if we have to read these reviews to tell what statements, interpretations, opinions, criticsm they offer. --Olaf Simons 15:08, 23 April 2008 (CEST)

so how do you want the summary to be written? - so that we can change it. you just said "put a link on the wiki and give a short summary of the review" Gruß, Verena Engelhardt 15:18, 23 April 2008 (CEST)

Well as I said: the statement - it does not help me if I read the text makes a brilliant statement in the end. To get a view of the different opinons/views/statements me need the statements themselves (like "criticises the movie as a implicit justification of the death penalty being the very means through which the accused accepts his responsibility..." or "reads the film as religious kitsch" or "praises the film as...")

• New York Times this is a link to an official film review published by the New York Times in 1995. It gives a summary of the film and judges the making of the film, the actors` ways of playing the two main characters, and describes the whole atmosphere of the film.