A Sentence on Mr. Death

Errol Morris’ fine documentary Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. begins as a foray into the life of a solitary man who works on death penalty equipment and traces his downward spiral into the oblivion of obliviousness as he identifies himself with Holocaust revisionist history and suffers the consequences of ignorance concerning himself, not unlike Leuchter’s predecessor Narcissus.

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11 Jul This entry was published on July 11, 2008 at 1:36 pm. It’s filed under 1990s Cinema, American film, One-Sentence Reviews and tagged death penalty, documentary, Dr. Death, Errol Morris, Fred Leuchter, Holocaust, Narcissus. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.