When someone kills seventeen people over a thirteen-year span with words like necrophilia and cannibalism circling each murder, sympathy for the predator — not his prey — is neither the first nor hundredth emotion that should come to anyone’s mind. I’m not certain there could be room for anything but disgust whether you’re a stranger, a family member, or an old friend reading the news. And yet we try to find motivation nonetheless. We wonder about how someone could become such a monster right under our nose without ever suspecting it. There’s this unavoidable sense of morbid fascination because we can’t fathom doing what he’s done. The need to therefore discover what in his life drove him to that point trumps everything. We seek reason in the unreasonable.
While it’s one thing to live vicariously through the nonsensical ravings and actions of a D-list wannabe...
While it’s one thing to live vicariously through the nonsensical ravings and actions of a D-list wannabe...
- 11/2/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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