This story is mainly based on true events of ,"The Sacremento Vampire Killer"'Richard Trenton Chase , for those interested in finding out the true
story,in actuality the true events as hard as it is to believe are more disturbing than the movie,only complaint would be the over the top ending otherwise a very powerful,disturbing & riveting work by Mr.Friedkin.Highly recommended for this type of movie.
Here is the real guy... http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial3/vampire/index.html
shareWhat an irony. You know what i learned from that article, that the worse killings are more executed by the prosecutors rather than by the man our society wants to call a monster. I learned that our world and our system is actually still very imperfect and people are not ready to understand others when they are not capable to understand themselves.
What i saw here was just a perfect example of the struggle between the minority against the majority. It sounds like - if you are not like us you're against us so we're gonna smoke you off this planet for good. What a decision and deliberate killing act, isn't it. Yes, Chase was a brutal killer and from my civilized point of view he was certainly a monster. But it's just from the point of view of majority of us. And who we are to kill someone who's living according to his own inevitable rules and practically only in his own fantasy. It brings up the question how bad is the killing, if you kill a dog or a human being, what's worse?!? I believe we as human beings are partially just animals with big brains, nothing more, and this question is getting more relevant to me with the coming years.
I don't believe that this Chase should have been living in our society, no way!! but certainly he shouldn't have been executed either. There should've been made some kind of a special place for this type of people, sort of like the idea the film "Escape From New York" hinted at. That was more reasonable.
"but certainly he shouldn't have been executed either."
He wasn't executed he basically killed himself in prison.
Um....psycho! You are one sick son-of-a-bitch!
FREAK!
Have you even read about what Chase did? Because I did and I almost vomited a little in my mouth.
I don't like the death penalty, in fact, I'm against it, but I would really prefer that man dead than alive, that's for freakin' sure.
I'd become pro-death penalty just so I'd make sure he wasn't alive anymore.
Manny, I can see that you and I are in the minority on this one. I completely agree with you. Chase didn't deserve to be incarcerated in a "main stream" prison. He needed to be committed. The system failed him the first time he was released from the hospital. His mother failed him by not reporting the killing of animals. His mother failed him by taking him off of his meds. Chase was effectively destined to slip through the cracks at conception. He didn't stand a snowballs chance in hell just by being borne to his mother. Yes what Richard Trenton Chase did was horrific, disgusting and just plain wrong. But Just because something is broken "RTC's mind" doesn't mean that he should be destroyed. No RTC would have never have been rehabilitated. But he could have spent the rest of his life in a place where he would get the help that he obviously and so desperately needed straight from childhood. The Richard Trenton Chase case is a prime and shining example just why possibility of death penalty needs to be looked at as a case by case basis.
I did not watch Rampage. But I did in fact read Richard Trenton Chases Crime Library article in it's entirety.
Yes I Sympathize for those like Richard Trenton Chase. RTC was sick. His mind was sick. His mind didn't work right. If what I feel makes me "Insane" or "Sick" like Chase for having Sympathy for him and those like him. So be it. I would rather have Sympathy than Lynch-Mob Syndrome like so many in the world today.
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Easy enough to say... until he pays you a visit at your house.
I can understand not having "a lynch mob mentality", in the sense of wanting justice to the point where anyone will do (to be punished) just to fulfill your desire for retribution... which, believe it or not, is where the concept of justice came from.
Even so, I am 100% for aborting a proven threat to society, but only after the fulfillment of guilt being proven. To kill on little to no evidence is to do so on emotional grounds, which frankly have no room in true justice. In order for true justice to be implemented, a decision has to be made upon evidence and factual information. Even then, the only conclusion (and punishment) should be based upon the act of the crime itself, not the condition or intent of the criminal. ALL social laws are designed by their nature to protect society as a whole. It does not matter whether one is insane or sane if they kill... what matters is that, after being proven to be a threat to society, the perpetrator forfeits their life to the same degree that they took it. Not out of emotional desire for vengeance, but out of the logical conclusion of the equation of proof or lack of it.
ALL problems within society come from misplaced sympathies, misguided intentions or laws that have random effects based upon the existence/intent of the criminal as opposed to the crime itself (just watch DEADLY WOMEN on the I.D. channel to see some egregious sentences - women who brutally kill after lengthy planning stages who are found guilty of 1st degree murder... and then sentenced to 10 to 20 years).
In this particular case, it is redundant as to whether Richard Chase was sick or not. The moment his sickness or malfunction pushed him to the realm of harming others, he forfeited his own life.
There's an excellent bit of dialogue in the theatrical cut of Manhunter. To paraphrase the FBI profiler, when speaking of the serial killler he is pursuing, he says that the young man that was damaged and cultivated into the murderer he became as an adult has his sympathy. His heart cries for that abused child, but as an adult someone needs to blow him out of his *beep* socks.
There are sad stories that often produce monsters, but once they become monsters, they ARE monsters and you can't go back in time to change the sad story that created them. You can remove those sick killers from society and prevent further tragedy. I agree with your post.