The film "Dead Man Walking", tells the story of a murder that took place by two men, who killed a teenage couple. This is the background of what the main story is about. Sister Helen Prejean (played by Susan Sarandon) is on a mission to heal the sins of one of the murderers, Matthew Poncelet (Penn), who is on death row. The movie has major themes of faith, redemption, and forgiveness. The biggest theme in the film is forgiveness. The forgiveness of God upon man and the forgiveness of one another. Poncelet and Prejean learn from .
One another about the humanity that lives in all of us. .
The film is about Poncelet and his friend who kill a boy and a girl one fateful night. They kill the boy and rape and murder the girl. Poncelet is sentenced to death. Sister Helen is summoned upon by Poncelet to help him get out of this execution. Throughout the film, she goes to many places and through different plans of action to try and stop the execution from taking place. .
She meets with the victim's parents and with Poncelet's family too. Sister Helen and Poncelet develop this strong bond that many people find surprising. Sister Helen stays next to Poncelet through the final days of his life. The faith of the two gets challenged, but they overcome this challenge by the superiority of the friendship they have together. At the end of the film, we see a montage of what happened that night of the murder in the woods, while Poncelet is heading towards his execution and ultimately dies. .
The greatest theme in this film is the power of forgiveness. We see that Poncelet is truly sorry for what he is done towards the end of the film. And as an audience, we see that it was forgiveness that made him realize this. We see this theme in the scene of when Poncelet and Sister Helen are talking about the Bible and talk about the power of forgiveness. "That God always forgives those that admit they are sorry for their sins.
Dead Man Walking The movie "Dead Man Walking" brought up some important questions. Questions concerning moral, hate, love, forgiveness, justice, and reconciliation. As well as if the death penalty is a appropriate and just punishment for a crime. Throughout this film there was a lot of hat...
J-21: Dead Man Walking 1. While viewing Dead Man Walking, I had very mixed feelings. ... I believe that if you kill a man, in certain heinous and cruel situations, you too should die. ... No one needs to see him die; they just need to know he is dead. ...
In the novel Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean, was asked to correspond with Pat Sonnier, a man sentenced to die by electric chair for the murder of two teen- agers, which he did not commit. Dead Man Walking, gives a moving account of her spiritual journey as she became knowledgeable about our system of capital punishment through her involvement in the lives and deaths of several convicted murderers, their families, the families of their victims and the people whose job it is to carry out executions. ... However, by talking to this man and having a "relationship...
I believe that Dead Man Walking was a very emotional movie.In this movie we can see the hatred and sadness of the family.The movie also showed how the families' hatred did not go away even after Matthew was executed. ...
Dead Man Walking A question that lingered in my mind after watching Dead Man Walking was, "Is it morally just to put a criminal to death in retribution for their crime?" After watching this movie and reading the article Living and Dying on Death Row: An Eyewitness Account, I believe it is definit...
After reading a good book the reader's view of life's and life's complications and obligations should be clearer, at least for a time. How was your reading clarified your understand of people, institution, life and its confusion? I believe that after reading " Dead Man Walking" I have a much cl...
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After watching the movie "Dead Man Walking", I got a better understanding of the death penalty. Throughout the movie there are very clear reason why some people are for the death penalty and why others may be against it. I am actually for the death penalty. Someone charged with first degree murde...
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