Into the Abyss (2011)

The theme of the story is about the death penalty: he interviewed the prisoners, the police and the families of the victims. the film is cold and gloomy, and it forces us to face this morally ambiguous field. From the title of the film, it is not difficult to see Herzog's purpose of "gazing into the abyss of the human soul", which should make the film different from the traditional documentary on the death penalty. Behind-the-scenes production, 68-year-old German director Herzog interviewed several prisoners awaiting execution in the United States and made the documentary "staring into the abyss." Herzog said: "people should not be executed by your country, this matter there is no room for debate."... I think the only exception is the state of war. " "34 states in the United States still have death sentences, and 16 of them can still carry out the death penalty. The mode of execution is lethal drug injection, and only Utah is still shot. As a German living in the United States, I have different historical backgrounds. I respect but do not approve of the death penalty in the United States. " Wiener Herzog's four-chapter documentary the Abyss repeats this out-of-picture commentary at the beginning of each chapter. In the picture, the camera sweeps through the iron fence of the empty pre-prison detention room, the candlestick and the Bible on the long table by the wall, and then passes a small.