Let Him Have It

The film portrays the events surrounding Derek Bentley's conviction from his point of view. The filmmakers do this by using certain effects such as direction, lighting, music, setting and costume.

At the start of the film we heard very slow music. It makes you feel sad, we see Derek Bentley as a young boy trapped under rubble of bricks, we here Derek's mum shouting him. The film music then suddenly fades away and then the film starts to show all the action. The ordinance feels curia's and sad because they might not know what happened. Before we see Derek Bentleys we here planes and bomes dropping on the rubble and see the stones what the bomes have already hit.

The effects of the settings are very realistic the cameras move away from Derek Bentley slowly so we can see him before they got him out of the rubble. After they got Derek Bentley out of the camera shot it moved to another scene. We see a long distance shot then the camera goes into an extreme close-up of Derek Bentley's face.

When Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig were on the rooftop the camera went to the family at the window watching them breaking into the building. We here Derek Bentley talking to Christopher Craig then the camera moved to them sat on the rooftop. The camera then shows the family man running to the phone box to ring the police. Derek Bentley then here's the police car's rushing to get there and he looks over the rooftop and the camera makes it look like we are seeing things though Derek's eyes.

The lighting makes the scene's look realistic, when we see Derek and Craig on the rooftop the lights underneath them came on so that you can see the shooting much clearer.

In these three scenes the director wants you to feel sympathetic towards Derek Bentley. The director shows three parts of Derek's life; his family sitting in his house (silent), there were lost of protesters out side the prison. I think it makes it more disturbing because it is like you are there when it happened.

I think that Derek Bentley is not responsible for the murder of the police officer and should not have had to stand trial and he certainly should not have been hung. He didn't do anything to police officer but help him when he had been shoot. Christopher Craig was shouting and shooting at the police officers.