Dead Man Walking

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Dead Man Walking

The movie “Dead Man Walking” brought up some important questions.
Questions concerning moral, hate, love, forgiveness, justice, and reconciliation. As
well as if the death penalty is a appropriate and just punishment for a crime.
Throughout this film there was a lot of hate. There was so much anger and
disposition in all of the characters. Matt Poncelet was a confused and hateful
individual. He was so masked with anger that he didn’t even really know what his
true feelings were. He thought he was this big, bad, tough individual but he really
wasn’t. Inside he was a scared little child. He believed that he was invincible and
that no one could touch him. It wasn’t until the end when he was in his cell awaiting
his death that he really owned up to what he was and the things that he did. The
parents of the two victims were also filled with hate and anger. They hated their
children’s killers, but who wouldn’t hate the killers of your kin. They were blinded
by their hate. All they wanted was to see the man that killed their children dead. It
seems to me that hate was the main cause for all of the problems in the movie.
Sometimes people need to just relax and let things happen. Hatred is a disease that
kills. Hatred killed the kids, hatred killed Mathew Poncelet, and hatred killed the
marriage of the victims parents. Hate makes people on edge, they jump and explode
at the slightest thing. Hate in unhealthy, it eats away inside of you and gets to your
personality. Hate changes people for the worse.
People need to learn how to forgive others for their actions. The parents of
the victims didn’t necessarily need to forgive Matt Poncelet but they needed to let it
go and have him receive his punishment. They needed to understand that even when
he was executed it would not bring back their children. It may make them feel better
but it still wont change anything. Everything will still be...