An American Crime: More Heinous than any Crime Movie

Suzanne 2022-08-04 20:16:34

This film is based on real events, and because it is true, it is more heinous than any crime film or even torture film I have ever seen, and it is full of sins that no screenwriter can write. It's better to call it a documentary than a movie.

People are strange creatures, especially in the case of mass crime. Everyone becomes extremely crazy and loses their reason and humanity. The unhappy mother who raised her children alone, the other children in the family, and the children in the small town—these people are the criminals in the case. They believe in religion, some are blood relatives, some are ignorant children, and they together make a little girl as pure as a cardamom flower. Tortured and tortured to death, they all said it was not their fault. They are the most ordinary of human beings—timid, mediocre, and cowardly, but capable of committing the most despicable crimes, but they all argue that it is not their fault, it's the way it is. They even make excuses for their actions. There is neither the courage nor the conscience to admit mistakes.

In The Crowd, Posner said: "The ferocity of mass sentiment is intensified by the total disappearance of the sense of responsibility." The realization that there will be no punishment--and the greater the number, the more certain it is--and because of the multitude And the momentary sense of power will cause the group to show some emotions and actions that are impossible for isolated individuals. In the middle of the group, the fool, the imbecile, and the envious person, freed from the feeling of their inferiority and incompetence, will feel a cruel, short-lived, but great power. " How succinct and profound.

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  • 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.