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How does the Director encourage the audience to feel sympathy for Derek and his family?
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How does the Director encourage the audience to feel sympathy for Derek and his family? The film "Let Him Have It", directed by Peter Medak, explores the now long forgotten case of Derek Bentley, Christopher Craig and PC Miles. It portrays the events of 2nd November 1952 to which we can only ever know certain things as fact. Bentley and Craig being there, on the Parker & Barlow factory rooftop, Croydon, for example. No-one is disputing this, or that Craig shot Miles. What we, as an audience, don't know is whether Bentley assisted or provided support in any way, mental or otherwise, to the killer. The ensuing court case brought to a head the often muted, yet continual argument over the practice of capital punishment in the British justice system. The director felt very strongly about the film and subject, "I wanted to break the audience's heart...". Medak's feelings as an...
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