Double Jeopardy (1999)
- Information at Internet
Movie Database
- Roger
Ebert Review, Chicago Sun Times
-
Movie Parables
review.
-
"Double
Jeopardy, Run, and the Thirst for Justice," Steve Lansingh,
TheFilmForum:
Christian Conversation about the Movies.
-
Cinema in Focus,
a social and spiritual commentary by Hal Conklin and Denny Wayman.
- Themes
- Baptism
- Car plunges into the water, Libby and Lehman make
their way out and swim to the top. (DVD chapter 8)
- Conversion
- Travis (by implication) is encouraged by Libby's
determination and acts like the law professor he'd wanted to be.
- Determination, Overcoming Obstacles
- Libby overcomes many obstacles in her search to be
reunited with her son.
- Faith (Faithlessness)
- "See, Lehman, the thing is, every now and
again we all want to believe in something, but we just keep
forgetting that 99.9% of the time life just flat don't work
out." (Lehman proves him wrong - in that instance at least.)
- Female Christ Figures
- Libby's fierce love for her child. The resurrection
from the casket scene.
- Mother
- Libby is willing to risk her freedom and her life
for the chance to be reunited with her son. Her love for him is her
motivator.
- Recognition
- Matty finds sees his mother whom he thought was
dead. ("They told me you were dead." "No,
Sweetheart.") (DVD chapter 15)
- Redemption
- Libby and Lehman (chapter 15) "You saved my
life." "You saved mine, too."
- Resurrection/Raising of Lazarus,
Freedom
- There's a great resurrection/raising of Lazarus
scene within this movie. Libby is locked in a casket in a New
Orleans tomb by her husband. By the illumination of a cigarette
lighter she realizes her condition and even sees a corpse in the
coffin next to her. There's a moment when we see light streaming
through the stained glass window (cross) onto the coffin, after
which she shoots the locks from the inside and then pushes the lid
open and comes out. But she's still locked in the tomb. So she takes
a vase from the altar smashes the stained glass window, and escapes
(through the cross!). (DVD chapter 13)
- Matty finds sees his mother whom he thought was
dead. ("They told me you were dead." "No,
Sweetheart.") (DVD chapter 15)
- Vengeance
- Libby's revenge on her husband is portrayed as
justice.
- Wrongly Accused
- Libby is set up by her husband to look like his
murderer and she serves 6 years in prison.
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