DEAD MAN WALKING **** Recounting the true event, 'Dead Man Walking' is a lace of character and sympathy, societal issue, and spiritual impact. The film follows Sister Helen Prejean (played by Susan Sarandon) as she rises to the challenge of ministering to an inmate (Sean Penn) on death row. How the movie keeps momentum is focusing on the densely layered, emotional - as well as spiritual - relationship between the two leads as Sarandon makes known to Penn the spiritual prospective on life, and Penn deciding how to respond. The sections touching on how national punishment should involve itself in people committing serious felonies is supportive to the theme. The players are well-suited in writer-director Tim Robbins's gripping setting, who also contributes fine work, and the musical score does it justice that much more. A tough subject well told.
Review of Dead Man Walking
