Jacobean Drama-Law Abiding Citizen
I believe that the movie Law Abiding Citizen, portrays the actions that we see in Jacobean Drama.
The actor Gerald Butler plays Clyde Shelton, who witnesses two burglars rape and murder his wife and five year old daughter. This makes me think it relates to Jacobean Drama in a way because there is always death to close family members such as the plays we read in class.
Witnessing this event has left Shelton scarred and the two burglars, Darby and Ames, were caught but the prosecutor, actor Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice, is more worried about keeping his high conviction rate and makes a secret deal with Darby to plead guilty to 3rd degree murder and he will have Ames sent to death row so he can get out from being sent to death row. This left Shelton to feel betrayed and he saw the corruption in the justice system.
10 years later…
Shelton kidnaps Darby and has his plans to get his revenge on him. I think this scene brings revenge to an extreme level because Shelton is on a mission due to having his family stripped from him. In this scene, Darby is strapped down and injected with adrenaline so he doesn’t bleed out and Shelton makes Darby watch everything while he tears limb by limb. This is Shelton’s revenge to Darby for killing his family and this is just the beginning.
Shelton starts going after anyone that had anything to do with the case such as the Judge who he killed by blowing up his cell phone. This movie has multiple scenes of revenge and Shelton’s main goal was to fix the Justice system because he didn’t get justice for the murder of his family. This reminds me of Jacobean Drama because from what we read so far it was a chain reaction of murder on top of murder. In this movie it is similar in a way because Shelton starts murdering the individuals, that contributed to Darby getting free, one by one in gruesome ways.
I have included two of the scenes below:
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