Into the Abyss

Honored as Independent Hero in IndieLisboa 2009, Werner Herzog is back with his most recent work, a documentary that shares conversations with a young killer, Michael Perry, days before his death penalty, and with all the ones who were affected by the crimes he commited – his family and the families of the victims -, and makes us reflect about the act of murder. Herzog examines in a sharp way the different perspectives of the crimes – the one of the killer who is condemned to death, the one of those who cry the loss of their loved ones, the one who registered and investigated the crime scenes, the one who, abiding the law, executed the sentence. Questioning the act of killing, illicit or ordered by law, Into the Abyss turns into a film-inquiry that both interrogates the killer and the penalty condemning him. (Catarina Cabral)