Tim Robbins, who made Dead Man Walking into a film, based on a factual experience about a murderer who was convicted of raping and murdering a man and a woman. Sister Helen Prejean, a nun who looks after Matthew Poncelet, talks to him about issues involving the case, and the look behind other people's point of view. This film has a lot of emotion, especially on the last day because it gives the viewer a feeling of what the prisoner is going through that day, with family being there, his last words and minutes, and spending his last hours alive.
Dead Man Walking shows scenes that are very powerful to the viewer. One scene is where they back flash to when he raped and shot the young boy and girl in the forest. I thought that scene was hard to watch because they show both, Matthew and the other man, raping the girl, as well shooting both. There are scenes though, that is not frightening to watch. At the end of the movie when Poncelet spends his last hours with the family, I thought......
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