The Fugitive is a 1993 film where Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford), as he is chased through the city of Chicago while attempting to prove that he is not the man who brutally murdered his wife. The early part of the film, Dr. Kimble is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife, and is sentenced to lethal ejection. Kimble remains adamant that he is innocent despite all the evidence, (and flashbacks) seeming to incriminate him pass the point of him being proved innocent. However, when two fellow prisoners attempt to mount an escape while they are being transported on the interstate, a new prospect of optimism is granted upon Dr. Kimble as the convicts actions land the prison transport vehicle on train tracks as a train approaches. “The action sequence that received most notoriety was the spectacular train crash from which Kimble escapes his journey to death row. Superbly directed, the scene is a chaotic, manic event. . .” (Pfeiffer 209). It is in this scene of wreckage that we observe new perspectives of innocence as Dr. Kimble’s actions within the smashed and folded setting are ultimately pure.
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