Extended Reading
  • Violette 2022-04-23 07:04:50

    The world is bad enough, but I'm not bad

    If it weren't for the repeated emphasis on "this film is a description of real events" and "all testimonies are from court records", you would probably take it as a poor story made by a third-rate screenwriter. But if you regard it as a case reduction of realism, you will definitely come to the...

  • Jasmin 2022-04-19 09:03:00

    Why no one condemns the parents of two girls

    After reading it, it is very heavy. I can understand the things that a family whose body and mind have been distorted by the pressure of life can do. But I can't understand why the children's parents can leave 2 underage children, hand them over to strangers they don't know, and leave them in...

  • Agustin 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    This is simply a horror movie. It's about abusing little girls, and it's based on a true story! I cried, it was horrible. I didn't expect to see another movie next, which is child abuse again! ! What a horrible day today!

  • Bernita 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Human nature is so ugly, so ugly, in order to vent one's own pressure, and blame all the guilt on others, everyone is like this, everyone is lying, for their own sake, one has one lie, even to let Sylvia came to believe that this is all out of motherly love, tmd, this inhumane family! The whole family deserves to be imprisoned and executed. Ling Chi is no exaggeration!

An American Crime quotes

  • Gertrude Baniszewski: Who's in charge here?

    Johnny Baniszewski: You are, mama.

  • Gertrude Baniszewski: You know what it's like to be sick, Sylvia. I've been sick for so long, too. I can't... discipline my kids they was I should. I punish them I know, but... sometimes with my medicine I gets so I don't know what I'm doing.

    [begins to cry]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: And I care for them so much. Paula, the thing is... Paula's a lot like me. I had her when I was just about your age. Then Stephanie. Then all the others. Then John left... And here I am on medicine, doing whatever I can to keep my family together. I want something better for Paula... There has to be something better... And I need to protect my children...

    [cries]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Do you understand that? You kids... you're all I've got... Thank you, Sylvia. Thank you for understanding, thank you.