Dead Man Walking.

The film Dead Man walking is a film of great social significance as it addresses an issue very relevant to modern society. The film explores why the death penalty should be outlawed in society by giving one of the men on death row, Matthew Poncelet a human face. The director Tim Robbins has employed the use of dialogue, montage soundtrack, camera angles and specific casting to try to make the viewer accept his view on …showed first 75 words of 723 total…

…showed last 75 words of 723 total…gods, the gods in this this case being the voters. Once again displaying his view on the death penalty as a way of gaining votes and furthing ones political carreer. The death penalty is a means of channeling our bloodlust through the law although Tim Robbins, due to his inexperiance as a director has presented a movie which is so blatently bias that the affect is almost to create a resistance in the viewers minds.