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Question about Micheals mom...

posted 12 years ago by zombiesushi
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Does anybody else feel bad for Micheals brother? Ive been watching this movie alot lately (I find it fascinating) and the thing that keeps getting to me is Micheals mom, she just goes on and on about how much she loves him, which I can understand completely, but at one point she says that she wishes they could die together and that if things get to hard for him that she intends to help him commit suicide so they can! This infuriates me to no end, what about her other son? She barely even mentions him except as an afterthought when she is showing a picture of them to the person who is interviewing her, and not once that I can recall does she even mention him by name. Doesn't she care one bit about her other son who would probably be devastated if she were to die? I just dont understand how somebody could completely disregard one of her children like that:(

[–] mariacarabin 12 years ago

I just watched the documentary and I feel exactly the same. I was very irritated by it... To me it also seemed like she glorified him and while I totally get that you might never stop loving your child I don't get any feeling of anger or grief about what he did. I would not be surprised if Michael's brother would not have wanted anything to do with the documentry because of how his mother came across as .... I don't know, as if a tragedy happened to her son, not that a tragedy was inflicted by him (not alone but still).

I felt also incredibly sorry for Angel's brother and was irritated by the seeming indifference of the club kids. But that's my PO!

EDIT: And like someone said on documentary storm (where you can watch the documentary for free): her voice broke and she acted upset when it was about saying he is gay or homosexual. There she had a hard time saying anything and she used the word lifestyle. But as that person said: He killed someone, I would be more emotional about the aspect of the personality!

[–] DivingIntheBlue 12 years ago

I don't know, as if a tragedy happened to her son, not that a tragedy was inflicted by him (not alone but still).

I've seen that way of thinking by parents in real life and it's just....weird. I used to work in a prison and quite a few of the parents that would visit their sons there felt this way. Even though it was pretty clear that these men repeatedly did the same illegal things that landed them in jail, some parents felt like their precious babies were just "misunderstood" or "just in a bad place in their life". I can buy the "bad place" thing if it was a one time occurrence, but multiple felonies and repeated bad life choices (ie drugs, etc.) is a way of life - not a "bad place" in one's life.

Alig's mom reminds me of some of those parents. It's a bit heartbreaking to see in real life. Perhaps she thinks it's a bad reflection of the way she raised in him if she admits that he's a terrible person. I honestly don't understand her reasoning away certain things.

I think her blind adoration of him likely affected him and ultimately turned him into the person he is. It's not her fault entirely, but I get the feeling she raised him in a way that gave him the feeling that he was superior to others and other people are just on this planet for his amusement or convenience. Even in the documentary, his friends say that he did some outrageously mean things to them and they just dismissed his bad behavior because "That's Michael!"