WITHOUT MERCY the Award-Winning Film by Ralph Server to be Shown at Briarwood College.

Locally-shot film WITHOUT MERCY will be screened FREE at Briarwood College in Southington CT on Friday, October 15, 2004 in Founders Hall at 7:30 pm. Server's film won "best picture" at the New York International Film and Video Festival last month. The screening is FREE for anyone who wishes to attend. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED(With young girls Ken McElroy forced sex upon them under threat of gunpoint.) The film is UNRATED. Mr. Server will be the guest speaker and will answer questions after the screening.

(PRWEB) October 9, 2004 -- Server, who initially went out to Hollywood after finishing college at Southern Illinois University, had a few stints in the entertainment industry with some small parts on TV during the 1980s and sold a few scripts that never made it to the big screen, but soon gave up the industry to pursue a law degree. "I actually came across the story when I was in my first year of the practice of law in Beverly Hills, CA. I thought it was a great idea for a film," said Server. "It is basically the story of how Ken McElroy was executed by a makeshift firing squad. The town murdered him and no one was ever indicted." WITHOUT MERCY is a searing study of what Server calls "rough justice". The story takes place in Northwest Missouri, in a small town, but it could happen anywhere, anytime men look the other way in the face of evil. Shot in 18 days during the WTC debacle, this powerful narrative was immediately hailed by the New York International Film Festival as a work of art. "In this tale of murder and betrayal I tried to stay away from stereotypes," said Server. "I tried to breathe life into what is essentially a tale of revenge. The fact that it is based on a true story made my task that much more difficult because I needed to relate what happened in Skidmore in 1981 to today's world."

In fact, Skidmore's act of murder was committed out of sheer terror, not out of meanness, or even a desire to murder. Skidmore's act begs the question: In an era of preemptive war, when can murder ever be justified? If at all.

Server's film addresses the ambiguity of a post-modern world.

The film was presented to the famous festival in Utah, and vehemently rejected as being 'politically incorrect'.

"If the film is thought of as an incitement to murder, then such a view misses the point," said William Tranquilli in the College Bee Fresno.

"WITHOUT MERCY is an unconventional tale, a kind of allegory of the unscrupulous and warns against the dangers of opposing terrorism with reason or logic or even a "wait-see" attitude for the 'justice system' to work. The painful truth is - that it does not. What people find objectionable and therefore politically incorrect)is that the film undermines an established government monopoly."

CHILLING
"I was upset that in the end justice was not really served."
-Lu-Won(South Dakota)

"In the end, a rough justice was served, but it proved to be better than what the government had offered."
-William L. Anderson, Ph.D, North Greenville College, South Carolina

"Despite the rumors of McElroy murdering people, he was never charged much less convicted for murdering anyone, nor was he ever found guilty of rape."
-D.W. Palme(Kansas City, MO)

N. Benisch summed up the verdict of all the critics when she called Server's film "a masterpiece."

Professor Anderson's brilliant essay on Ken McElroy: "VIGILANTE JUSTICE: A Proper Response to Government Failure" can be found on http://www.lew rockwell.com/anderson/anderson6.html