The film Dead Man walking is a film of great social significance as it addresses an issue very relevant to modern society. The film explores why the death penalty should be outlawed in society by giving one of the men on death row, Matthew Poncelet a human face. The director Tim Robbins has employed the use of dialogue, montage soundtrack, camera angles and specific casting to try to make the viewer accept his view on the death penalty.
Tim Robbins has purposely chosen to employ the services of two actors who are renowned stereotypes to play his main characters. …
