Law Abiding Citizen Analysis

In the movie Law Abiding citizen it is about a man who goes through a traumatizing event where his wife and his daughter were killed in raped by a man named, Clarence Darby. There was two suspects Darby and Rupert Ames, they were both convicted of murder and Ames was sent to death row, but Darby the one who did the killing and raping made a plea deal with Nick Rice rising prosecutor at the time. Clyde the husband and father of the two that were killed was furious at the idea that one serves the death penalty and Darby only gets three years. He knows who the real killer was and he thinks justice wasn’t served. Since justice was not served in Clyde’s mind, he took it upon himself to teach the professionals within the legal system that mortality has a role in law by using extreme measures. Clyde Shelton is an honorable family man, until the day his wife and daughter were murdered. Ten years later, he finally finds his time to strike, he fantasized everyday about how he was going to kill the both of them and everyone involved with the case. The first victim Rupert Ames was going to be put down by the justice system, but Clyde didn’t like the idea of him dying quick and painless. Clyde wanted him to suffer just like he made Clyde suffer and grief for ten years without his wife and kid. Before Darby killed Clyde’s wife and child he says famously, …show more content…
A tunnel leads to a cache of guns, disguises, and other equipment below the solitary confinement cells, with a secret entrances to each cell. Rice and Police Detective Dunnigan realize that Clyde wanted to be in solitary confinement all along. This would have allowed him to easily leave prison with detection. Rice finds out that Clydes next target is City Hall, where the mayor is holding an emergency meeting. Rice and Dunnigan cannot find Clyde but discover evidence pointing to a cell-phone-activated suitcase bomb in the room directly below the City Hall