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* ChildrenAreInnocent: It's strongly implied Troy is oblivious his elder brother Matthew is going to be die and won't see him again.
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* GoodParents: Both the Delacroix's and Percy's were very loving parents to Walter and Hope and are absolutely devastated by their deaths.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Happens to both the Percys and Delacroixs and played for truly heartbreaking effect. Later happens to Matthew's mother.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Happens to both the Percys and Delacroixs and played for truly heartbreaking effect.effect, even leading to Earl Delacroix's wife to file for divorce. Later happens to Matthew's mother.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: The extras at the vigil scene outside the prison when Matthew is executed are RealLife anti-death penalty activists (including [[TheCameo the real Sister Helen]]) and many of them attended a vigil for an inmate who was executed at Angola a couple days before the scene was shot there.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: The extras at the vigil scene outside the prison when Matthew is executed are RealLife anti-death penalty activists (including [[TheCameo the real Sister Helen]]) and many of them attended a vigil for an inmate who was executed at Angola a couple days before the scene was shot there.
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** While the parents both had their wish seeing Matthew executed, technically the Percys never got justice as Matthew didn't actually kill their daughter while Carl Vintello did, though Matthew did rape her. And the Percys will likely go their grave never knowing Carl was the actual murderer.
** While both Matthew and Carl both got punished for the murders of Walter and Hope, Matthew unfortunately got the worse deal by dying while Carl gets life in prison.
** While both Matthew and Carl both got punished for the murders of Walter and Hope, Matthew unfortunately got the worse deal by dying while Carl gets life in prison.
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* GallowsHumour: Matthew jokes to Helen he never had shrimp before stating it is pretty good, particularly as it is the last thing he will ever eat before facing his demise also better known as the "last meal."
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* GallowsHumour: Matthew jokes to Helen he never had shrimp before stating it is pretty good, particularly as it is the last thing he will ever eat before facing his demise also better known as the "last meal."[[PrisonersLastMeal last meal]]."
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* PrisonersLastMeal: Matthew Poncelet has shrimp, prior to his execution by lethal injection. He jokes that he's never had shrimp before, and finds it to be "pretty good," considering it is the last thing he's ever going to eat.
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* TheCameo: The real Sister Helen appears as an extra in a candlelight vigil protesting the death penalty.
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* GallowsHumour: Matthew jokes to Helen he never had shrimp before stating it is pretty good, particularly as it is the last thing he will ever eat before facing his demise also better known as the ‘last meal’.
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* GallowsHumour: Matthew jokes to Helen he never had shrimp before stating it is pretty good, particularly as it is the last thing he will ever eat before facing his demise also better known as the ‘last meal’."last meal."
* GriefInducedSplit: Earl Delacroix reveals at a support group for parents of murdered children that his wife filed for divorce due to differing ways of grieving their son's death.
* GriefInducedSplit: Earl Delacroix reveals at a support group for parents of murdered children that his wife filed for divorce due to differing ways of grieving their son's death.
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* GallowsHumour: Matthew jokes to Helen he never had shrimp before stating it is pretty good, particularly as it is the last thing he will ever eat before facing his demise also better known as the ‘last meal’.
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* TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: Matthew and Carl approached Walter and Hope while they were parked in his car.
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* BrickJoke: Early in the film a newsreader claims Matthew will be executed via the lethal injection machine and as fate would have it, that is how he dies by the end of the film.
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* BrickJoke: Early in the film a newsreader claims Matthew will be executed via the lethal injection machine and as fate would have it, that is how he dies by the end of the film.
* ForeShadowing: While meeting the parents of Hope, Helen also meets Emily who is strongly implied to be Hope’s little sister. Her losing Hope as a sibling foreshadows Lucille’s other boys also losing Matthew their eldest brother to execution.
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* LastOfHisKind: Earl Delacroix tells Helen that, due to Matt's actions, he is the last Delacroix and the family name will die with him. Helen is clearly taken aback by this.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Twice in the film:
** Helen while sympathetic towards the Percys causes Hope’s parents to suffer further heartbreak after admitting she is siding with Matthew by being there for him at his execution as his spiritual advisor. Understandably the parents furiously chew her out and declare her as an enemy for supporting him.
** Lucille, Matthew’s mother let’s slip to her son that people are talking about his funeral and she angrily tells them he isn’t dead yet. Matthew is obviously hurt what his mother just said and she realises she said something that came out wrong causing the chattering the family had to suddenly switch off and into awkward silence. Matthew though does a good job not showing his hurt emotions to his own mother.
* LastOfHisKind: Earl Delacroix tells Helen that, due to Matt's actions, he is the last Delacroix and the family name will die with him. Helen is clearly taken aback by this. The same can apply for Emily who is strongly implied to be Hope’s little sister as she is the last sibling left in the Hope family.
** Helen while sympathetic towards the Percys causes Hope’s parents to suffer further heartbreak after admitting she is siding with Matthew by being there for him at his execution as his spiritual advisor. Understandably the parents furiously chew her out and declare her as an enemy for supporting him.
** Lucille, Matthew’s mother let’s slip to her son that people are talking about his funeral and she angrily tells them he isn’t dead yet. Matthew is obviously hurt what his mother just said and she realises she said something that came out wrong causing the chattering the family had to suddenly switch off and into awkward silence. Matthew though does a good job not showing his hurt emotions to his own mother.
* LastOfHisKind: Earl Delacroix tells Helen that, due to Matt's actions, he is the last Delacroix and the family name will die with him. Helen is clearly taken aback by this. The same can apply for Emily who is strongly implied to be Hope’s little sister as she is the last sibling left in the Hope family.
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* ShoutOut: According to Mr Percy his daughter Hope was in the army. R Lee Emery who played the dad was a commanding officer himself in real life and he was also known for his roles as Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket and iconically voiced Sarge in Toy Story which came out the same year as this film.
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* TheLastThingYouEverSee: A rare benevolent version. Sister Helen tells Matthew to look at her when he's executed, so that the last thing he sees is "a face of love."
