If you want to add a pre-dinner dessert to your nightmares at night

Godfrey 2022-04-23 07:04:50

If you want to add a pre-dinner dessert to your nightmares at night, I recommend watching this movie before bed.
There are almost no bloody scenes, but the perverted atmosphere created by the film, the unusually calm and rational cruelty, definitely tests the humanity of every normal person. The story was originally ordinary, but after the turning point, it looks like the heroine's face, giving you infinite unknowns, depression and fear.

After the film END, the subtitles tell you grimly: The film is based on real events that happened in Indiana in 1965, and the shooting is mainly based on court records at that time. Soft sofas, fruit wine and tea are right in front of you, and this world does happen and a lot happens in the dark corners that you don't know. Regarding violence, mental illness and abuse, when they are magnified in front of your eyes, you are bound to value and cherish health and light without hesitation.


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  • Nakia 2022-03-29 09:01:08

    Adapted from a true event, it tells the story of a girl played by Ellen Page who was fostered in the home of a single mother by her parents who went out to work and then abused to death. The brutality and cruelty shown in the film are simply a nightmare. Although child abuse incidents have been staged in China, but after the media reports, they have gradually faded out of people's field of vision. I really hope that this kind of film can be produced in China and attract the attention of the society, especially some authorities.

  • Aidan 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    Another girl who died in the morning light. I don't want to watch this kind of child abuse movie again, especially if it's based on real events. Watch once and cry once. Every time I watch a fresh life being tortured to the point of dying, it makes me sad.

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.