Steve Coogan is an excellent actor.
In this film he plays a defence attorney for a man who has killed seven men for no apparent reason.
The accused doesn't wish to be defended, cannot remember what happened and refuses to talk about it.
In my opinion, other than the opening scene, the film begins slowly but builds to a crescendo as Coogan's character puts questions to the accused in an attempt to find the cause or trigger for this event to occur.
The facts of the case are self evident and there is no argument against that but why would he do this to people he did not know?
The film uses flashbacks where the Coogan character poses these questions and we get to see the situations the defendant was in and what he had to do. We see his slow progress that leads to the murders.
The end footnotes state that this case had an influence in changing South African law regarding the death penalty.
One thing mentioned in the film was that with murderers and victims, no one remembers the victims. Lets hope this isn't the case.
In this film he plays a defence attorney for a man who has killed seven men for no apparent reason.
The accused doesn't wish to be defended, cannot remember what happened and refuses to talk about it.
In my opinion, other than the opening scene, the film begins slowly but builds to a crescendo as Coogan's character puts questions to the accused in an attempt to find the cause or trigger for this event to occur.
The facts of the case are self evident and there is no argument against that but why would he do this to people he did not know?
The film uses flashbacks where the Coogan character poses these questions and we get to see the situations the defendant was in and what he had to do. We see his slow progress that leads to the murders.
The end footnotes state that this case had an influence in changing South African law regarding the death penalty.
One thing mentioned in the film was that with murderers and victims, no one remembers the victims. Lets hope this isn't the case.