I've actually read otherwise: for instance, aboriginals in Canada (a very socioeconomically disadvantaged population) suffer from far higher rates of suicide than non-aboriginal Canadians.
Just to add in here the whole socio-economic factor in crime: criminal populations are largely non-Caucasian, as are the populations of death row. Does that seem like an equitable system of justice? If non-Caucasian people, who tend, on the whole in America, to be poorer off than Caucasian people, are bearing the brunt of a system that endorses capital punishment, then it seems obvious to me that there is a socio-economic component (ie endemic poverty in non-Caucasian communities) that is leading to a higher crime rate. Also, I don't think it comes as controversial to anybody that crime rates are higher among minorities. Is that because we are somehow "too soft" on them? I certainly think not, and am willing to guess it has much more to do with poverty than with not threatening people enough with the death penalty.
It's also more expensive, on average, to execute someone than to imprison them for life. Cool government policy, Republicans who shriek about excessive government spending!
I'm glad the director chose to include the pan-out to show all of the ships lined up like game pieces. Otherwise, I wouldn't have made the connection between the movie Battleship and the board game Battleship.
I actually heard an interview with Charlie Kaufman that backs your point, tiredandwired. In the interview (Might have been a "Special Features" addition on the DVD, total Special Features-head right here), he said that the burning house was supposed to represent Samantha Morton's character's decision to undertake a path in life that she knows will lead to ruin, but that she freely accepts any way. I think that's a pretty relate-able point because how many times in life do we make decisions that we know in the long term will harm us, but at the time we're just like "Ehhh fuck it, why not."
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