Honestly, these people were probably the worst bunch of abysmal pieces of shit I've seen in a movie. Maybe Charlie just thought for a moment that he would do the whole world a favour by getting rid of them.
And then the officer, who is also a total fucking scumbag, decided to act like a jerk with him instead of thanking him. So finally he might had decided that even though they are scum, they don't deserve to die in the hands of such a dickwad.
This is pretty much the only explanation which makes some sense to me.
It might also be that Rob Zombie wanted to make sure that every single characters most be as despivlcable as possible. I hated that movie, and always will, in big part because of this exact reason. Yes, sure, some movies are not made for the purpose of showing loveable characters... But here, Zombie might had gone a bit too deep in the concept. I simply wanted everyone (except the victims) to die.
Some movies present a lot of loathing characters, and can do it properly (Natural Born Killers or Martyrs for instance). It's all about the reasons behind. Let's take Natural Born Killers: the characters are mostly hateful, and yet, by the end they look KINDA redeemable. Making them so bad served the purpose of the movie which was to make a total satire of the american society, the power of the media and the high violence rate in the US.
Did I feel like there was a profound meaning behind the characters' actions in The Devil's Rejects? Nope. I felt like this was a vile movie made with the clear attention to be vile.
Anyways I ramble, I think that this particular element is not really the issue with movie. If anything, it simply adds up to the already huge pile of shit that this movie is.
And it's not because I have a sensitive mind. Believe me, I love movies like Hostel (the first 2 of course), Cannibal Holocaust, A Clockwork Orange, Nymphomaniac or Martyrs. These are movies considered as shocking and highly violent. But, I see a reason for it at least
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