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("Don't read this until after you've seen the film. It has some info about a relationship between two main characters and is mostly an opinion on an issue taken by the movie's director.
People say that this movie is somehow a fair debate of the death penalty, but I don't agree. I imagine that had Joseph Goebbels survived the Second World War and moved to Hollywood he would have made a film portraying Hitler as a good, likable guy. Sure, if you're "fair to the other side" by occasionally showing war scenes, or maybe even a gas chamber, it'll qualify as a "side in a debate," as this movie does. A piece by Joseph Goebbels would certainly qualify as great entertainment, as this movie does. But ultimately, such a movie would be what this movie is: a piece of one-sided, propagandistic garbage that seeks to humanize evil.
The criminal in this movie has participated in the murder of two young people, and a rape. In that, he is very much like the people whom the state puts down on the people's behalf. Where he is unlike them is in that he has a soft, human side that "just needs to be brought out" by a symphathetic nun. Hardened criminals don't have a softer side! During the movie the family of the victims, to whom the nun (amazingly) goes to asks her: How can you associate with such a man? Neither her answer nor any answer can satisfy. People who can rape and murder others are fundamentally different from the general public. It is true that many are capable of bad acts, but it takes a different sort to actually go and do it. Has Robbins ever been in a prison? Has he ever talked to cons at length? Has one of his loved ones ever been raped or murdered? Maybe if that was the case he'd be less inclined to chant "free Mumia" or hold candlelight vigils for Timothy McVeigh. Entertainment aside, this movie makes me puke. citat av quantact www.imdb.com")