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Average Rating:6.7/10
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: How far would you go for your beliefs? That question, along with many others, is pondered in this thought-provoking film. The man of the title is on a mission to promote the death penalty in... [More]
Director: Ted Schillinger
The New York law professor's obsessive relationship to death-row inmate Daryl Holton, self-confessed slayer of his own four children, assumes enough bizarre twists to lay bare the myriad contradictions and prejudices.
Top CriticA compelling, provocative and illuminating documentary that will inspire you to intelligently reexamine your own beliefs about the death penalty.
In the documentary, Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, New York Law School professor and well-known retributivist Blecker submits he can measure -- in his gut -- who deserves to die.
Intriguing, thought-provoking documentary about a pro-death-penalty lawyer and his unlikely relationship with a murderer on death row will satisfy socially conscious viewers on both sides of the ever-controversial issue.
A legal joust that ends in the sort of satisfyingly ambiguous fashion that should spur post-screening conversation.
On a deeper level (and a skillfully conscious one on the part of filmmaker Ted Schillinger) it's a portrait of two men's utter loneliness in their thoughts.
Just as its subject likes to hear himself talk -- often in ever-more-vague blasts of logic clear only to himself -- this cheap-looking doc gives him lots of air.
Blecker’s climactic nighttime encounter with garden-variety execution advocates offers a resolution-by-proxy of the duo’s bizarre waltz, as well as a powerful home truth.
The film's a wicked batch of screwy logic but, even when tossed and shaken, all the moving pieces fall into place.
As for the filmmaker, Mr. Schillinger remains neutral to a fault. His documentary, while compelling, can also be frustrating.
Top CriticVivid, engrossing, and surprising.
Miring itself in both the sound and troubling aspects of Blecker's views, as well as the honesty and hypocrisy of his actions, Schillinger's portrait unobtrusively allows its zealous, self-reflective subject to speak for himself.
Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead is straightforward as documentary filmmaking, but it’s fascinating as a dialectic on fairness.
Anyone who's gotten jazzed by a lively philosophy class (hello?) should find it fascinating.
A thoughtful if dry discussion of the death penalty revolving around the titular gentleman.
As it turns out, its titular subject makes it one of the few genuinely problematic documentaries to come along in a long while.
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