The documentary "Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead" is a thoughtful if dry discussion of the death penalty revolving around the titular gentleman, a professor at New York Law School in downtown Manhattan and an outspoken fan of the barbaric practice of frying people in the electric chair or standing them in front of a firing squad and riddling their bodies with bullets.
Dispatching criminals we hate via lethal injection is too good for them, Blecker reasons in Ted Schillinger's film, because that's the same way we sometimes are forced to kill pets we love.
Dispatching criminals we hate via lethal injection is too good for them, Blecker reasons in Ted Schillinger's film, because that's the same way we sometimes are forced to kill pets we love.
- 2/27/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
There have been a slew of documentaries stumping against the death penalty over the years, but Ted Schillinger’s Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead is one of the few that makes a strong case in favor of capital punishment, via the passion of its title character. Lawyer Robert Blecker makes no claims that the death penalty is a deterrent. Instead, he considers himself a “retributivist,” who feels the punishment should fit the crime. The average hood who shoots and kills a store clerk has no business being hooked up to the needle, in Blecker’s opinion, but he believes child-rapists ...
- 2/26/2009
- avclub.com
Robert Blecker is a professor at New York Law School, best-known for being one of the most active public proponents for the death penalty. He's a retributivist who likes to quote Socrates and the law of Solon when arguing the death penalty isn't just a judicial but a moral imperative, just retribution for the worst of the worst. Ted Schillinger's documentary <a href="http://www.spout.com/films/Robert_ ...
- 2/23/2009
- by Vadim Rizov
- Spout
Spring is a season of renewal, particularly in the movie business, where the completion of the awards derby allows Amy Adams to segue from playing a solemn nun in "Doubt" to a klutzy crime scene cleaner in "Sunshine Cleaning." Along with "Sunshine," there are plenty of festival favorites about to get their day in the sun, whether that's in theaters, on DVD or on demand online or on TV. This preview recognizes the many ways to get your indie film fix, as well as the special events you might want to head out to if you live in New York or Los Angeles, including "The Brothers Bloom" director Rian Johnson's week-long con man movie "Festival of Fakery" at L.A.'s famed New Beverly Cinema, about which we recently spoke to the director. But regardless of whether we're watching films from the past or present, we're looking forward to the next couple months.
- 2/18/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
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