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Unanswered While I understand that Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are a couple of the biggest names on the Bleeding Heart Liberal list in Hollywood, I have to admire Robbins' restraint in the handling of the material at hand here. The question is whether or not the death penalty is something that we should continue to uphold as a nation. If people are redeemable or just doomed to consistently repeat the same mistakes in their lives. While the movie details the life of a sympathetic nun (in the first Oscar winning performance by Sarandon) and seems to want to lead you down the path of condemning the death penalty, it also gives you a criminal who is completely without morals. While Penn was eventually awarded his own gold statuette for MYSTIC RIVER, it is here where he SHOULD have won. Driving you between feeling sorry for him and loathing the very thing that he represents, it makes the argument that sometimes there are instances when killing a murderer is a very right thing to do. There are no easy answers to this question. Ghandi's famous quote of "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind," might be all fine and good, but there are some people who have such poisoned vision that they need someone else to do the sight-seeing for them. A fantastic and thought provoking film. email this review to a friend
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