Injustice In Tommy Lee Jones

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I feel that the film part more with the bizarre, but throws in a sense of injustice. Tommy Lee Jones’s character Pete Perkins also knew what he was doing was illegal. In reality, if Perkin just would have gone to the police if these evidence, the authorities would have handle it. I also felt if Norton would have told his supervision the event he would have been fine. Yes a man life was taken, but he thought he was in danger. E.T. Eliot said it best, “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intention.” Perkins had the best intentions and made a promise to a friend, still what he was doing is wrong. You just cannot kidnap a person, carry a decaying corpse, refuse to stop after a person got bitten by a snake, and finally shoot

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