George Marlow
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Thorsten-Krings — 16 years ago(November 26, 2009 01:26 AM)
Lynda LaPlante took up the basic principle, i.e. the insecurity of evidence which you face in any investigation and turned it into Trial and Retribution. I think it's one of the best things aboiut her writing that she shows the difficulty in focussing on one lione of enquiry and the danger it brings and then brutally showing us that looked at from a different angle things might actually be quite different.
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Writ_in_Water — 15 years ago(February 07, 2011 08:17 PM)
Marlow pled "not guilty" because his mother was in the courtroom. He couldn't confess to those crimes in front of her. His whole life is built around protecting her from reality.
His mother is his Achilles' heel, and the key to his character. Talking about her is how Tennison gets him to crack. Marlow tells his girlfriend, "Underneath all that glamour, she wasugly." He hates beautiful women for having what his mother couldn't have. Killing them is (in some twisted way) his way of getting justice for her. -
film_ophile — 15 years ago(February 10, 2011 01:04 AM)
writ, gee that's brilliant. i don't think that ever would have dawned on me- your last sentence, above. We just saw this tonight for the first time.gasp!
I must say, the only thing that didn't work for me was his character. maybe i'm really uninformed but it seemed to me TV-unrealistic that a very sadistic serial killer would show NO sign of mental illness. And , while i am not in favor of 'reader's digest' treatment of audiences(i.e. writing to the education level of a 12 yr. old)it would have made much more sense to me if they had shown him glancing at his mom before saying 'not guilty.'
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Krustallos — 14 years ago(April 07, 2011 04:20 PM)
it seemed to me TV-unrealistic that a very sadistic serial killer would show NO sign of mental illness
Have you never heard of Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Peter Sutcliffe or Dennis Nilsen?
Bundy and Gacy in particular were highly respected pillars of their communities, part of the reason they went undetected so long. Nilsen held down a job as a civil servant right up until he was arrested. No-one suspected anything.
And "Prime Suspect" seems to me to be based more than a little on the Peter Sutcliffe case, or certain aspects of it.
I don't necessarily think we're to conclude it has to do with his mother anyway. He's shown himself to be a shameless liar throughout. Not having guilt to trouble them, many psychopaths are.
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film_ophile — 14 years ago(April 07, 2011 07:54 PM)
astounding to you i'm sure, but no, while i have heard some of their names, i do not know anything about those people; I will now go and read about them. thank you for the info. it will interest me most of all to learn if MOST people thought these killers were 'normal' or if there were also more sensitive people who always thought these guys were weird, untrustable and/or potentially dangerous. i have a copy of a film to watch about Jonestown and Jim Jones, along this same line of inquiry.
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Is to share what we have.