The subject may remind some of the viewers of one of Claude Chabrol's greatest achievements :"Que La Bête Meure " (1968) in which Jean Yanne was at his best .
This above average MTV work manages to avoid any comparison ;it focuses on the hit-and -run driver ;a policeman is right when he says that "this guy will be eaten with remorse,he will not be able to live with the death of an innocent child on his conscience! " And actually the criminal coward has his moments of doubt and fear ,there is an (imaginary) scene in which he gives him up to the police ;it is a well respected man ,an elegant executive (well portrayed by Jean-Paul Rouve) whereas the victim's father is a working-class man .A wrong man is arrested :so what about urging the dad to take the law into his hand ?(check the title) The problems the criminal driver encounters with his family -a wife who does not trust him anymore,the quasi-pathological love he feels for his daughters ,are perhaps too much ;a happy comfortable life would have sharpened the man's desire to get away with it .
This is a responsible work anyway.To be seen .
