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aahaa, muahaha 
"Optimistic altruist, incurable romantic"
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 Posted - 11/30/2009 : 06:13:04
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| Is there a good film / documentary on a state/ country repealing capital punishment? Or activists fighting against capital punishement or even for capital punishment? |
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 11/30/2009 : 09:26:16
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| Other than The Life of David Gale? |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 11/30/2009 : 09:36:26
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Originally posted by aahaa, muahaha
Is there a good film / documentary on a state/ country repealing capital punishment? Or activists fighting against capital punishement or even for capital punishment?
Interesting question! Maybe these aren't exactly what you're looking for, but it's a start ... some plots depend on mistaken identity or innocent victims and that once you're dead  you're dead 
Silents
Capital Punishment - 1925
Who Shall Take My Life? - 1917
The People vs. John Doe - 1916
The Sin of Nora Moran
The Green Mile
Dead Man Walking
In Cold Blood
Sacco e Vanzetti
I Want To Live!
Dance With A Stranger
Let Him Have It
Execution
Pierrepoint - aka The Last Hangman
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aahaa, muahaha
"Optimistic altruist, incurable romantic"
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Posted - 11/30/2009 : 09:57:46
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Thanks Sal, I did not know about the "The Life of David Gale" but its plot resembles that of the early 1980's Telugu language hit film "Abhilasha." Anyway, this was not what I was looking for. I am looking more specifically for where capital punishment is repealed.
Thanks Bafta, I'll get back to you after I look up the plots of these films. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 11/30/2009 : 12:09:35
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Originally posted by aahaa, muahaha
Thanks Bafta, I'll get back to you after I look up the plots of these films.
Ah, I see ... yes, that's more difficult. Here's another - a doco
After Innocence
The thing is that many of the filmmakers consider the film itself a plea for the repeal of capital punishment, whether or not it resulted in overturning the law. This doco, for example, is the first I know of to focus on developments in DNA evidence gathering, storage, application, etc to prove innocence ... even years, decades after the event.
I think the problem with films about repeal is that the legal process takes so long and isn't dependent on one case. In script terms this presents the huge problem of trying to embody abstract ideas in the lives of people. That leaves little room for dramatic tension and character development in any meaningful way since such complex matters would need to be condensed into less than a couple of hours. And that threatens to trivialize the issue.
Anyway - are you trying to build an accolade -- or write the definitive tome  Good luck either way 
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demonic
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Posted - 12/01/2009 : 00:35:31
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| Nick Broomfield's two documentaries on Aileen Wournos might be worth considering as well as it documents her/their appeals to get her death sentence commuted. |
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