Rooting for the killer
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FanboyDestroyer — 12 years ago(October 12, 2013 02:05 PM)
In the middle of the film, did anyone else root for the killer? I felt sympathy for him when he got beat up and when he was being chased. Does anyone else agree?
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UpperEastSider — 12 years ago(November 24, 2013 05:15 PM)
You mean the one that had murdered two innocent children, then planned on killing the babysitter (and had probably murdered numerous others before that)??
Absolutely not.
Always be
yourself
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UnimpressedBouncer — 11 years ago(September 05, 2014 08:19 PM)
nop not at all, instead i was hoping for a more painful death.
It was so freaking annoying trying to make him victim of this situation.
So yeah i was rooting for the fat cop to kill him but not just with a gun, i was hoping more like a machete or cut him into pieces like he fuc king did with the children. -
lm362 — 11 years ago(March 13, 2015 05:03 PM)
If you mean by sympathy feeling bad for his having a mental illness, then yes. I hate for anyone to be sick in any way. But if you mean sympathy in the sense of feeling he should not receive severe punishment, then no, I don't feel sympathy in that way. Someone who escapes a mental institution where help can be provided for them should be put in a place where they can never harm anyone else.
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Kimrubymoon — 9 years ago(June 09, 2016 09:28 PM)
Yes, actually. Not that I was "rooting" for him to run a muck and kill innocents in society, but I felt sorry for the mental illness he so obviously was a victim to. Many who don't understand just how fragile we all are as humans, just don't get what psychological issues are all about. You know how this world is nowadays.everyone wants the easy answer. Unfortunately, we do not yet know enough about the psyche to make sense of it quickly, so people just want to believe sociopaths are all bad ON PURPOSE, as if it's always a well thought out choice! Ridiculous.
Anyway, sure, Some killers are NOT truly disturbed to that extent - and definitely DO need to be given the harshest punishment (I'm all for the death penalty) but some are truly, truly ill and this is what the middle of this movie attempted to show (brilliantly, I might add).
Again, in today's world, people will forgive criminals like the Clinton's and put them back in the White House (and they ARE NOT truly disturbed like Kurt Duncan..the Clinton's are just narcissistic whores), but the minute a genuinely deeply disturbed sociopath (and possibly schizophrenic) kills a kid or two and HOLY beep People are out for their blood. Again.flawed logic and simply ridiculous.