La Dernière Marche (1996)

Partager la citation sur facebook Look at you. Death is looking down your neck, and you're playing your little male come-on games.

Partager la citation sur facebook I want the last face you see in this world to be the face of love, so you look at me when they do this thing. I'll be the face of love for you.

Partager la citation sur facebook Ain't nobody with money on death row.

Partager la citation sur facebook It's quiet. Only three days left. Plenty of time to read my Bible and look for a loophole.

Partager la citation sur facebook I just wanna say I think killin' is wrong, no matter who does it, whether it's me or y'all or your government.

Partager la citation sur facebook They won't care if you shot the gun. They'll be thinking of the crime. And of you as a monster. It's easy to kill a monster but hard to kill a human being.

Partager la citation sur facebook State trooper: I never gave a ticket to a nun before. I gave a ticket to a guy from the IRS one time. Got audited the next year. I'll tell you what, this time I'll let this one slide, but keep your speed down, yeah?

Partager la citation sur facebook Sister Helen Prejean: Show me some respect, Matthew.
Matthew Poncelet: Why? 'Cause you're a nun?
Sister Helen Prejean: Because I'm a person.

Partager la citation sur facebook Sister Colleen: If Matt dies, guess who he'll be buried next to?
Sister Helen Prejean: Who's the last person to die?
Sister Colleen: Sister Celestine.
Sister Helen Prejean: Oh Lord.
Sister Colleen: You remember when that sweet little girl in the convent came after her wedding day to introduce her husband to us?
Sister Helen Prejean: Sister Celestine said, "I'm glad I never had to share my bed with a man."
Sister Colleen: She loved her celibacy so much.
Sister Helen Prejean: I know. She's gonna be lying next to a man for all eternity.

Partager la citation sur facebook Prison guard: Tell me something sister, what is a nun doing in a place like this? Shouldn't you be teaching children? Didn't you know what this man has done? How he killed them kids?
Sister Helen Prejean: What he was involved with was evil. I don't condone it. I just don't see the sense of killing people to say that killing people's wrong.
Prison guard: You know what the Bible say, 'An eye for an eye'.
Sister Helen Prejean: You know what else the Bible ask for death as a punishment? For adultery, prostitution, homosexuality, trespass upon sacred grounds, profane in a sabbath and contempt to parents.
Prison guard: I ain't gonna get no Bible quote from no nun cause I'm gonna lose.

Partager la citation sur facebook Sister Helen Prejean: You are a son of God.
Matthew Poncelet: [in tears] Thank you. I've never been called a son of God before. [laughs slightly] I've been called a son of a you-know-what plenty of times, but I've never been called a son of God.

Partager la citation sur facebook Prison guard: Do you have any last words, Poncelet?
Matthew Poncelet: Yes, I do. [pauses] Mr. Delacroix, I don't wanna leave this world with any hate in my heart. I ask your forgiveness for what I done. It was a terrible thing I done, taking your son away from you.
Clyde Percy: [Softly to his wife] How about us?
Matthew Poncelet: Mr. and Mrs. Percy, I hope my death gives you some relief.