Into the Abyss Page #11

Synopsis: Into the abyss explores a triple murder which occurred in the small Texas City of Conroe in 2001. Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, murdered a middle-aged housewife; they then gunned down her stepson and his friend. The film features Conversations with the two inmates and those affected by their crime. Unlike many of the films that deal with crimes, into the abyss isn't concerned with figuring out exactly what happened, but rather serves as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.
Director(s): Werner Herzog
Production: IFC Films
  2 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
PG-13
Year:
2011
107 min
£221,488
Website
737 Views


Yeah, a good... looking man.

- Good looking man.

- However, Jason

is not an ugly man either.

Describe him to us, please.

- Like, physically?

- Yes.

You only have touched his hand.

Describe his hands to us.

- They're a lot bigger

than mine.

I'll start there.

I have really tiny hands.

He always... Jason,

he holds hands funny,

and he always holds my hand

kind of like that

as opposed to intertwined,

so he holds on to me,

and I just know

that his hands are massive,

because he wears

a ring size 11.

Our wedding rings,

it's an 111/2,

and I wear a 4,

so he can totally cup my hand.

- Were you allowed

to touch each other?

Hug each other?

Exchange rings?

- No.

I still can't get a ring.

- And you were separated

by a glass wall or...

- Just like this right here,

except for we had a phone,

and it was solid right here,

solid glass.

- But when she comes for visits,

are you allowed to hug her?

- I am now.

After we married,

I'm allowed to hug her.

I'm allowed to give her a kiss

before and after visit.

We're allowed to hold hands

on the table

and have contact and speak.

- But of course... of course

with a guard present.

- As close as you are to me.

- And you would like

to have children.

- Yes, sir.

- How would that happen?

How... what sort of option

is there?

- I want 50 children.

She wants 2.

So, I mean,

we have to work on this.

I want children

for different reasons.

I want children with her

specifically because I love her.

I want to be with her.

I want to give her something

that she'll always have with me.

- I'm under the impression

seeing you now

that you became pregnant

only a few days

after we met your husband.

- You guys met him

on the 18th of october?

- I think so, yeah,

something like that.

- Yeah, I believe my baby

was made

on the 23rd of october,

approximately.

- Right after

we saw your husband.

- 23rd or 24th.

- You went into action.

So to speak.

- And the father of the baby

is your husband.

- Legally, will be Jason, yes.

- And it is Jason biologically,

legally...

- I can't say that.

- In every single sense.

Since you are not allowed

to do more than touching hands,

how do you become pregnant?

There's a mystery.

- Yeah, it's kind of a mystery.

There's people involved

that I don't want to mention.

- No, we would not

imply anyone,

but I have to speculate.

Is there such a thing like

contraband entering prisons,

like, let's say, drugs,

cell phones, illegal messages,

there seems to be something

the other way round,

contraband from the prison

to the outside,

and you became pregnant.

- Well, we...

- Can we formulate it

like this?

- We... we prefer to say that

I was artificially inseminated.

- Do you have a name

for the boy?

- Well, we've...

we came up with Easton.

Easton Aaron.

- Can you show us?

I think there's a face.

Can you point it out?

- It's right there.

If you actually can see it

close enough,

you can tell my baby

has my strong jaw.

You live on

through your children,

and the love

that you put into them

projects to the world.

My parents are both gone,

and I had this big hole

in my heart,

and I realized

that what you do is,

you take all of that love,

and you give it back.

I mean, nothing else matters.

- I actually have this shirt

tacked up on my wall.

- Can I see the shirt?

Can you turn it around?

- I just make sure...

and somebody told me about the...

the live your dash,

and that's really,

after all this...

that I went through

and quit and everything,

then I heard the story

telling me live your dash.

How do you... how are you gonna

live your dash?

And I didn't understand.

"What are you

talking about 'dash'?"

It's on your tombstone.

You got your birth date,

and you got the day

that you decease,

and you got that little dash

in the middle.

That's your life right there.

That's your...

that's everything between

from the time you was born

from the time you die.

How are you gonna

live your dash?

And that's where I'm at now.

I'm gonna live my dash

and make sure that everything,

try to make everything right

for the family, everybody.

Hold still and watch the birds.

And you know, once you

get up into your life like that

and once you feel good

about your life,

you under... you do start watching

what the birds do, you know,

what the ducks are doing,

like, the hummingbirds.

Wow, there's so many of them.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. more…

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