Clemency
Crit
Huh! Had no idea that this is a film about retirement. Not quite my situation, though: I didn't leave work every day feeling as if my soul had received a lethal injection. That's pretty much the situation for Warden Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard), and her husband, Jonathan (Wendell Pierce), is another victim, and the one who suggests that maybe it's time to move on.
But no, the point is not boo-hoo, how sad for those nice people who have to put criminals to death. Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge) has maybe fifty words of dialogue in nearly as many minutes onscreen and commands our sympathy, respect, and yes, as the prison chaplain assures him, love.
So the point is more subversive: does anyone get any good out of this? Even the victim's kin? The answer is unsurprising but not ineffective.
But no, the point is not boo-hoo, how sad for those nice people who have to put criminals to death. Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge) has maybe fifty words of dialogue in nearly as many minutes onscreen and commands our sympathy, respect, and yes, as the prison chaplain assures him, love.
So the point is more subversive: does anyone get any good out of this? Even the victim's kin? The answer is unsurprising but not ineffective.
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