Told in fractured time (and with differing color filters) we realize we are seeing the story of a sociopathic man brutally killing a random stranger (who is kind’ve a jerk, but doesn’t deserve torture and death) and the idealistic young lawyer who tries to save him from the gallows. Doesn’t work. I’ve seen a lot of movies with execution scenes, but this is one of the most brutal. What’s up with Poland? They have to do everything in that ugly industrial green room? Anyway, it is a classic moral question. Is capital punishment wrong? In the abstract, yes, of course it is. So, should we fight to protect the unredeemed murdering douche bags who are about to get what’s coming to them? Well, surely there must be something else more important worth rallying over.
Incidentally, the murder scene is straight out of Body/Antibody.
