LAST REQUESTS | Omeleto

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A woman cooks for death row inmates. Maggie, a cook working in the kitchen of a Texas prison, prepares a delicious, home-cooked dinner -- chicken with all the fixings -- for a mass murderer scheduled for execution the next day. It's not only the last meal for the death row prisoner -- it's also the last one that Maggie will ever prepare since the last meal program is being abolished by the state the next day. She goes through an enormous outlay of effort, time and care to prepare the meal. One of her co-workers is skeptical of Maggie's efforts for a man who opened fire in a schoolyard and killed many young children, but the cook justifies it as an act of comfort for a man about to leave the land of the leaving and takes pride in her skill and work ethic. But when her kindness doesn't land as intended, the cook reveals perhaps that there's more at work underneath her dignity and generosity than it seems. Writer-director Courtenay Johnson's powerful, quietly provocative drama functions initially as a character portrait of sorts, portraying the work and effort of a behind-the-scenes worker in what many call the prison industrial complex. Coming from this seemingly peripheral position, it offers a subtle exploration of loaded yet ambiguous subjects like incarceration, capital punishment, mercy, justice and our own ulterior motives behind our beliefs. Shot with a muted yet rich naturalism and written with a viewpoint that privileges character and environment, the visuals ta

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