This director is really unsuitable for this type of film, and he ruined a good subject matter!

Alexander 2022-03-14 14:12:30

Seeing that many people recommended how to be desperate and how to be shocked, I watched it because I read the plot introduction in advance and deliberately wanted to make strong psychological preparations to watch it. General is too general!

I really don't understand why this director wants to show the evil of human nature, why did he make the cruel scenes so obscure and artistic? Can't you call the naked real brutality and abuse? The real situation is much more brutal than this! At the end, the first criminal appears to say sorry to the dead girl. Is this a deliberate beautification of the first criminal? Director, what's going on with your three views? To be honest, this director is really not suitable for this kind of subject, but such a real and shocking subject has been filmed by your literary and artistic fan to be nondescript, not shocking at all!

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An American Crime quotes

  • 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.

  • Sylvia Likens: She sacrificed me to protect her children, and she sacrificed her children to protect herself.