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 Eine deutsche Rezension von Martin Glauser, dennoch interessant. Sie kritisiert die filmische Technik einer "fatale[n] Parallelmontage" von der Exekution, dem Mord an den Teenagern, dem Injektionsprozess und dem sterbenden Matthew als "plumpe rhetorische Figur" kritisiert, weil sie die Exekution als "Legitimation jener barbarischen Justiz" präsentiert. Dies wiederum schien nicht Tim Robbins Absicht zu sein, sondern eher eine Kritik an der Todesstrafe. Zudem wirft die Rezension einen Blick auf den religiösen Teil des Films. Die Darstellung von Susan Sarandon spiegelt den "American Way of Being Concerned" wider - die "christliche Logik der Argumentation verleiht dem Film eine gewisse philosophische Unschärfe, sie verhindert ein klares Statement". Abschließend weist der Film eine "skandalöse Impertinenz" auf, da es Sister Helen am Ende noch gelingt, eine "Bekehrung in letzter Minute" zu erreichen.
• Suntimes.com An enthusiastic review by famous Roger Ebert declaring Dead Man Walking "a spiritual drama" in which Sister Helen really cares for the soul of Matthew. Referring to Egbert it is not about fullfilling the religious ritual and repent his sins but to truly understand what he has done, what really happened to him and others. He calls it a movie that will be talked about for a long time. Egbert praises the movie for going deep into the feelings of the characters, for not shying away from overstepping boundaries or being uncomfortable. He never mentions this to be a movie against the death penalty, though.
• Rotten Tomatoes.com A fantastic site that gathers a huge amount of reviews (Roger Egbert's review I found through this) 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 we 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...")

PS - that's the aim - like the first summary... --Olaf Simons 16:16, 23 April 2008 (CEST)

• 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.