Anybody feel sorry for Freddy?
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loui_b452 — 9 years ago(July 04, 2016 03:40 PM)
Do I feel sorry for Freddy being dealt a crappy hand has a child? Yes. BUT, that doesn't forgive everything he did after.
Remember, a lot of the kids he killed in their dreams had pretty horrible childhoods too. Taryn was a poor drug addict at a very early age. Alice lost her mother at an early age and was then verbally abused by her drunken father repeatedly. Tracy was sexual abused by her own father. Carlos suffered permanent hearing loss due to cruel and unusual punishment.
A great deal of Freddy's victims were also dealt pretty bad hands as children. But NONE of them resorted to molesting and killing children. Heck, if Freddy was truly a sympathetic character, he wouldn't used the childhood trauma of his victims to make their deaths that much worse. Freddy is to be pitied but NOT excused.
Getting bullied doesn't mean it's okay to become a mass murderer. That's like saying all those high school shootings were totally justified because "The poor kid got made fun of, guys!! He should totally be forgiven for gunning down random students who didn't even have anything to do with his bullying!!" Getting abused by a stepfather sucks but that doesn't excuse a grown man from abusing the children of others. "Oh no, officer!! It's fine that he molested and abused my child. I mean, HIS dad was so cruel to him 20 years ago so I understand" -
AmyJolamb — 9 years ago(October 29, 2016 01:33 PM)
I did when I first saw it. I was 16 and dealing with childhood sexual abuse. I was in an abusive home too. I was a cutter and had attempted suicide. I related to the characters of the movie. When I saw Freddy as a kid being teased and dealing with a crazy step dad I felt horrible for him. When I saw him cut himself I was shocked. I didn't know cutting or self harm was common. It wasn't discussed back when this came out. But I felt awful for Freddy for just a second. Then reality hit. A bad childhood is no reason to hurt others. You can rise above those who harmed you and live a healthy life. Freddy decided his own fate. Not his past.
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GayBoi1 — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 12:40 PM)
I did when I first saw it. I was 16 and dealing with childhood sexual abuse. I was in an abusive home too. I was a cutter and had attempted suicide. I related to the characters of the movie. When I saw Freddy as a kid being teased and dealing with a crazy step dad I felt horrible for him. When I saw him cut himself I was shocked. I didn't know cutting or self harm was common. It wasn't discussed back when this came out. But I felt awful for Freddy for just a second. Then reality hit. A bad childhood is no reason to hurt others. You can rise above those who harmed you and live a healthy life. Freddy decided his own fate. Not his past.
Exactly, this world is full of people who were abused as children and had crappy childhoods. Do they all turn out to be killers? I mean come on.