WTF was that all about? That was seriously f-ed up...and pretty random to throw into the middle of the film.
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DEAR MODS: PLZ REDUCE MY POSTING QUOTA. 30 MIN IS WAY TOO MUCH.
This film has a lot of over-the-top thematic elements.
shareI agree, very unexpected and extreme. In my view, the reason for it being in the movie is to depict "true evil". In fact I think Walker's wife mentions that she saw evil, and that she knows he is not evil because she has seen it.
shareFirst time I saw this film, I was just perplexed by this unquestionably random moment in the film (what they intended it to be). Though as odd as this may sound, this sequence has always been one of the things I appreciate most about this film.
Running Scared may be an absolute over-the-top film, yet the child killer sequence is so unexpected and tonally different from the rest of the film, it stands out. But it’s a great scene! Putting aside its shock factor, it is incredibly effective. Unnervingly strange sequence, albeit intriguing all the same.
The scene is the most powerful thing in what I think is a pretty damned good film. The scene epitomizes Hannah Arendt’s observation on “the banality of evil.” Satan is a Yuppie, offering cakes and shiny toys.
shareHonestly, I feel like this scene is so powerful it massively overshadows the rest of the film.
shareWhat pisses me off more is those who defend people like this from the death penalty.
They fight tooth and nail to spare the lives of child killers and rapist...
2 Bloodworth - but have you ever wondered why such people hold such positions in the first place or do you believe that they are just stupid and worthless idiots who appreciate and tolerate evil for reasons that are entirely illogical, selfish, unreasonable and whatnot?
shareHold what positions?
The position of defending the life of child abductors?
People who are against the death penalty generally aren't taking that stance to save the guilty. It's because we have an extremely flawed legal system that imprisons innocent people all the time, some of them on death row.
Sure, if every death row inmate left a disgusting trail of hard evidence like the killers in this movie, then by all means kill away. But real life doesn't often work like that.
Ok, but there is video evidence of many crimes, especially child porn which has adults raping children.
In those cases where there is video evidence and there are those who still fight to spare these peoples lives are almost just as evil.
Something really wrong though the lengths people go to defend criminals
Your scenario is rare.
It's too expensive and not fair that society has to foot the bills to jail and feed these animals
Though as odd as this may sound, this sequence is one of the things I appreciate the most about this film.
I agree, its the reason i return to the film every few years.
So satisfying to see justice served
And the controversial or potentially controversial aspect that one of the perpetrators was a somewhat good looking female character as well, although we were supposed to be glad when Teresa shot them both.
shareFor one, in the movies, of this sort as well, we kinda rarely see *that* aspect featured.
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"supposed to be glad" ?
You sound like you'd let a pretty lady get away with anything!
stop thinking with your dick!
I can think of few people in cinema history who deserved a cold blooded execution more than she did!
Believe it or not I wasn't thinking that at all. And thinking with "that aspect" isn't what I do in life at all.
I was just saying how the movie showed and depicted the situation. And well OK in this movie that is how it is.
We need to see more justice served in the real world.
Dying for the riot police to move in and clean house.
Whilst I think Walker tried a little too hard with his performance (he's far too whiney....not to mention 'pretty' to convince as a hardened cop/criminal) Running Scared is still a great gritty crime thriller, that is bolstered by the inclusion of the paedophile couple (who prove that 'evil' come in all shapes and forms....not just lowlife cops, mobsters or gangsters) It's one of the few scenes that actually ring true in a film full of many expositional contrivances.
Oddly enough, I don't think Hollywood would go anywhere near such a taboo subject in 2020 (without somehow inexplicably 'identifying' or 'sympathizing' with the paedophiles?)
So between the years 2006 and 2020 there is actually a lot of difference then?
shareI also dare say to someone who asked me about "letting someone get away" and thinking with "something other than a brain", a movie is, of course, one thing.
But if a remotely similar situation happened in REAL LIFE, with all the troubles that it entails of course, then of COURSE I would not only THINK but also ACT differently.
Not least because, we have a social responsibility and often even a LEGAL DUTY to do so.
But I am guessing we all knew that already.
Oh and I've never BEEN like one of those "guys" people talked about, well, either, and neither have most of my family members. But OK then.
shareNot least because, we have a social responsibility and often even a LEGAL DUTY to do so.
"So I would say that just the opposite is true... our society seems to have adopted a responsibility to HIDE and dismiss some of the most criminally heinous acts to protect those in power."
And just because it DID, it did not have a RIGHT to do so, and it did so for apparently very selfish reasons that exclude morality and justice, and I consider that at least shameful and highly tragic.
I don't understand anything that you've said....Care to elaborate?
shareDon't worry Mr Steven Seagal fan, a lot of it isn't meant to be taken "too" literally.
And I wasn't on the side of any of the two discussed villainous characters here, including the one who isn't "male".
And when I said "we're supposed to", I didn't really think that THAT would NECESSARILY be interpreted as a DISAGREEMENT on my behalf as opposed to EXPLORATION or RECOGNITION of what was shown and intended to be taken as or interpreted in the scene of the MOVIE.
What I was basically saying Seagal72 was that in my somewhat cinematic statement about depiction of female villains who may even look one way or another etc and based on also some cinematic reviews I've read here and there, was that I was nowhere NEAR "thinking with my d***" per se and that this has no real bearing on how I would handle any threatening situation in life regardless of who is guilty.
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