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The Life Of David Gale. Details: 2003, USA, Cert 15, 130 mins. Direction: Alan Parker. Genre: Drama. Summary: An advocate for the abolition of capital punishment finds himself on death row after ...
The Life Of David Gale – No Life, No Movie At the outset, this looked as if it might offer some initial entertainment but that ended very early on - following one perverse scene after another. Grotty writing combined with Alan Parker’s morose direction tried to manipulate our emotions - to prove that some people with a cause will commit almost any crime to win points their way.
Synopsis. David Gale is a man who has tried hard to live by his principles but in a bizarre twist of fate, this devoted father, popular professor and respected death penalty opponent finds himself on Death Row for the rape and murder of fellow activist Constance Hallaway. With only three days before his scheduled execution, Gale agrees to give ...
Jan 26, 2022 · Rewatching 'The Life of David Gale' and what it can teach us about the death penalty By Karl R. De Mesa Published Jan 26, 2022 6:25 pm The conceit of Alan Parker’s movie about capital punishment is how the state committing murder on murderers isn’t just dehumanizing, it’s economically and morally costly to the community.
The Life of David Gale is a 2003 thriller film directed by Alan Parker, starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, and Laura Linney. David Gale (Spacey) is a Texas death row inmate, former philosophy professor and anti-death penalty activist. Bitsey Bloom (Winslet) is the reporter he requests to conduct an interview in the last week of his life ...
Gale/Spacey essentially planted evidence and framed himself for a crime to get himself executed in a convoluted plan to discredit the death penalty (as if innocent people haven't been executed plenty of times already), abandoning his wife and kid in the process. It just required more and more absurd suspension of disbelief as the film wore on.
