Question about Lori.spoilers
So she killed herself so Eric would like her? Eric was a necrophiliac.
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SPOILERS: In more of the illogical, the director could have given us a little insight into Eric's background, to indicate WHY he would have killed his parents and the girls ..the detective mentions two. Watching him kill them in flashback doesn't explain the throw-away statements of the aunt: "They kept him drugged." Was he ADHD?
It was as though the girl didn't want to commit suicide herself, but wanted this psychopath to do it. And he was just being contrary. Yet he did make the strangulation cord in that park bathroom. And he did bring the pillow to the bed in a way that didn't look like he was going to lay his head on it but put it on her face.
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I still think that Lori killed herself so that Eric would get put away for it.
shareThen she wouldn't have bothered giving him a speech of existential angst - "nothing changes" and just jump in.
shareI don't think her motivation, per se, was suicide. She was a very troubled teen, a product of a broken home- her mom treats her more like a "buddy", her mom and her mom's boyfriend are into their own lives (except for mom's man's voueyrism)- kind of leaving her feel disconnected on the home front. Also- I think the wounds on her wrist were from "cutting"- not a suicide a attempt necessarily, but sometimes an act more associated with trying to relieve a perceived unbearable back-up of stress or unexpressed emotion. (the reason being that the physical pain actually acts an emotional outlet so to speak).
I think she got more obsessed with her perception of the great tide of emotion she imagines that motivated him in his killings- she wants to be loved so badly-and she gets it twisted in her mind- that him killing meant that he "obsessively" loved that person- but she wants to channel that tide of emotion into living love for her-and realized that couldn't happen.
It's this whole dramatic "saving" "being so special you're the one to change them" (witness Lori's scrapbook entry- "Eric- they don't understand you"). For instance, The first week Scott Peterson (California- killed his pregnant wife) was on death row- he got- I'm not a historian, so I don't know the exact number- like 13 marriage proposals in letters sent to him in prison.
They written books on this syndrome- I guess it's a sort of dysfunctional attempt at emotional bonding. I think that's what's going on here.
...WHY he would have killed his parents and the girls ..the detective mentions two. Watching him kill them in flashback doesn't explain the throw-away statements of the aunt: "They kept him drugged." Was he ADHD?I thought his reasons for the murders were explained pretty clearly. Being a psychopath/serial killer, he murdered the young women for sexual gratification. Then he killed his parents to stop his mom from reporting him to the police after she found evidence that he murdered the girl/girls.
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