Yes, Werner Herzog's film about men on death row is bleak – but it's about life, too
For Hank Skinner's final meal, he had three pieces of spicy fried chicken, two catfish fillets (pronounced feelays, this is Texas), a bacon cheeseburger, a larger order of fries, a salad with ranch dressing and little bowls of ground-up hardboiled egg and shredded cheddar cheese, onions and tomato sauce. All washed down with a pitcher of chocolate milkshake.
Maybe he thought he could block up his arteries completely and stop the poison getting through. Because Skinner, a convicted triple murderer, was going to be executed after dinner. By lethal injection. He could see the room a few feet from his cell, the gurney (that's a horrible thing, isn't it?), the armboards and straps, the microphone, the window through which the witnesses watch. "I was literally looking at my death while I was sitting there eating,...
For Hank Skinner's final meal, he had three pieces of spicy fried chicken, two catfish fillets (pronounced feelays, this is Texas), a bacon cheeseburger, a larger order of fries, a salad with ranch dressing and little bowls of ground-up hardboiled egg and shredded cheddar cheese, onions and tomato sauce. All washed down with a pitcher of chocolate milkshake.
Maybe he thought he could block up his arteries completely and stop the poison getting through. Because Skinner, a convicted triple murderer, was going to be executed after dinner. By lethal injection. He could see the room a few feet from his cell, the gurney (that's a horrible thing, isn't it?), the armboards and straps, the microphone, the window through which the witnesses watch. "I was literally looking at my death while I was sitting there eating,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Sam Wollaston
- The Guardian - Film News
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