Hi,

I saw the movie Dead Man Walking and I think it was too mainstream. It

had its good moments and it's better than usual mainstream films, but...

Like Susan Sarandon herself told in radio interview in KPFK, Los Angeles,

it is a love story.

 

In Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1996 Miller Farmer wrote an article

"Distorting Dead Man's Last Wish".He is an Atlanta attorney, represented

persons sentenced to death, including real life Pat Sonnier.

 

"...In the fabricated Matthew Pncelet, Robbins and Sarandon not only

steamroll the truth, they also ignore the racial politics of the death

penalty with its gross ower-representation of African Americans andd

Latino persons on the nation's death rows and, particularly the

outrageous over-representationn of African Americans on Lousiana's death

row... The fabrications of the film "Dead Man Walking" expose Robbins'

and Sarandon's lack of understanding of the political and social issues

surrounding death as punishment."

 

I found Farmer's critique relevant and so true. There are more prisons

than schools and governement is putting whole generation of African

Americans and Latinos to prison. In doing so,they just wipe the problem

under their carpet.

 

Jonna Roos

 

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