Is human nature really good?

America 2022-03-22 09:02:54

This film starred Ellen Page, the fierce little loli in Hard Candy. This is her 2007 film, but not as famous as HardCandy. The film is based on real events that took place in Indiana in 1965 and was filmed mainly based on court records at the time. Ellen Page is no longer the ferocious little loli who avenged her friend, but the weak and helpless poor abuser.
Watch it carefully, it's really scary. The plot is actually not tortuous, but shocking, only shocking, shocked by its reality. Shocked by the reckless biological parents, they just left Sylvia in the care of a strange woman. Shocked by the sad and hateful woman who took the pressure of life's hardships on an innocent girl, until in the end she would sacrifice her child rather than admit her guilt in court. Shocked by the insensitivity of those in the know, who are reluctant to meddle in their own business. Shocked by Sylvia's sister, she was cowardly afraid that she would suffer the same experience and did not dare to call the police and dare not tell the people around her. Shocked that the boy who liked Sylvia actually helped to tattoo "I'm a prostitute" on Sylvia's stomach. The most shocking are the children who abused Sylvia, from disbelief at first to accustomed to the end.
After a few pauses, I couldn't bear to watch it, but I wanted to see the ending, I wanted to see her rescued alive, and I wanted to see those wicked people punished. When I saw her escape, I really thought she could be redeemed, but it turned out to be just a dream before dying.
When I thought that these were real things, I burst into tears. I was thinking, is human nature really good?

Related introductions on wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Baniszewski

has pictures of real people, that poor Sylvia, what a beautiful little girl, that Hateful looks like a vicious witch.

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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.