...the movie/story left me a bit stunned really because it doesn’t leave anything left to say in that it speaks for itself as a reason why the death penalty has no place ...it’s a true story and a fairly convincing case that an innocent man was put to death in Texas in 2004...I don’t know how accurate the court case in the movie was to the real one but it just felt incredibly rushed with no interest at all from the court appointed lawyer..and no one really speaking up for him because his lifestyle wasn’t one that was approved of by many in town...anyway, those poor, poor children and obviously it was a true story...:sad:..Laura Dern was excellent as Elizabeth...and wow, when she had her accident, such a twist...real life really can be stranger than fiction at times...but it was awful for her two children that she was so obsessed with his innocence to the point that they felt that she was becoming less and less a part of their lives...I didn’t know the story, I hadn’t read it before I watched...but I hoped that the execution would be stopped in the last hours and it obviously wasn’t ...I find executions in movies very difficult to watch..and the bit at the end with the governor of Texas...’do you sleep at night...etc...’...’yes, I sleep fine’....it was an excellent choice, Niamh...:love:...I’m glad that I watched it....and it totally reaffirmed my abhorrence for the death sentence...
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As we were getting towards the end I did suspect the twist of body swap, which made me go "oh no not that " lol, the concept of there being a doppelganger of every person was a bit strange ,and had me thinking How and why?, and does that mean others have swapped places . The end feels like the copies / doppelgangers want world domination. They never got rid of them all either. But Jordan Peel is a unique writer and he thinks outside the box for sure

Ugh this was tough, I'm really not a fan of the Death Penalty anyway so these stories are just so terrifying. Todd's prisoner friend, was it Ponch? he said it right, you're poor, you're ****ed. You just know if Todd had a big bank account or a job, he would have had a decent lawyer, been able to get proper experts to look at the fire scene and blow the whole case open, it's almost impossible to do afterwards because those in charge don't want to admit they made a mistake or they didn't give this man a fair trial because it would bring the whole topic of the Death penalty into question, it's such a draconian and barbaric source of justice anyway imo, it doesn't give us a higher moral ground.

But the end was so sad, I really believed all the way through he was going to get his appeal and even up to when he was in the execution room, I was thinking that phone is going to ring. And besides all that he died not knowing why Liz wasn't there to say goodbye and to "not let him die alone" and poor Liz too, ending up in a wheelchair and also thinking she'd let him down :(

But yeah the second ending in a row where Justice really wasn't done, leaves you feeling a little deflated but it's important these stories are brought into the spotlight, maybe it will help to eventually have the Death Penalty abolished

I'm hoping the family Fang will be some light relief?! :laugh:

...another movie that I’m not sure exactly what to think...:laugh:...I was engrossed in watching it, it wasn’t a bad movie and I think that it was fine to watch after the previous two, which were so emotionally charged...a palette cleanser...I mean, there was obviously very little emotion because they were just child A and child B, which was obviously meant to be a play on their Christian name initial but I think it also described the Family Fang dynamics, in that their children were more like props in their lives and their lives with them was just a ‘performance’ anyway because their real lives were elsewhere...and then unravelling the mystery kind of freed the siblings in the end...it wasn’t a movie that I could warm to any of the characters particularly...although I obviously I did feel sad for Annie and Baxter...but I think that was maybe a deliberate thing as well...that we were a bit detached just as their lives had felt detached and then all of the issues they had into their adulthood years because of what their childhood had been...

This was an interesting one, I thought it was going to be be more of a comedy but it's actually much more serious than that. What a dysfunctional family. I mean it's really the story of a very abusive and controlling man, a worn down wife and two messed up children. Obviously the mother should have protected her kids more but she was clearly so far gone with such low self esteem, she still allowed him to control her even after he left her for another woman. It was a really sad story actually