MovieChat Forums > Stolen Lives (2009) Discussion > I don't get something about the killer's...

I don't get something about the killer's motive (SPOILERS)

posted 11 years ago by disneyfan2002-266-923607
3 replies | jump to latest

He first meets John outside the barber shop, where he gives him the toy. In the barber shop is where Matthew is told to go talk to the construction site about a job. We can assume he hauls ass over there ASAP. He's talking to the owner, and Diploma walks by, all hot and sweaty from working.

OK, so nevermind that. During the interrogation, he says he killed him because of the burden he was too Matthew and that Matthew was his friend. John was his 1st, and if we go by what Tom said, he got a taste of it, and continued to be a child killer. So was that all a lie and he was stalking John and that's why he convinced the owner to give Matthew the job??

Still doesn't eplain how he went from a well dressed man in a hat to a hot, sweaty guy in a wife beater within minutes.

[–] campusqueen57 11 years ago

It could be that when he was dressed up, he looked different
to everyone and presented himself as an OK person to kids.
I think he wanted Matthew on the job because they were about
the same age, he'd have a companion and/or he was already
thinking about boys
Maybe, he dressed in a suit in town on the weekends
or its just a mistake in the movie

"You're watching too much Sopranos, when you give your kids their allowance in envelopes"

[–] JonahVarque 11 years ago

Well, it's Hollywood. Where motiveless killers lurk around every corner.

I think in real life, deranged serial killers probably don't have a whole lot of motivation. That's just the way they are and that's how life is working out for them. In a Hollywood script though, a world populated by a million times more serial killers than our own real world, writers do usually feel a need to explain why the killer became the way they are. Sometimes it's so convoluted and sappy it takes away from the film.

In Stolen, what they presented as motivation was probably as good as anything else. "I liked it" "I liked hearing the neck snap". And yet it came across to me as very unsatisfying. A healthy and seemingly normal construction worker with a job was downtown on a workday for some reason. Has never killed before but spots a strange kid and gives him a toy. Doesn't know that the kid's dad is looking for work and will be directed to the very place the construction worker works, but rushes to the job as fast as possible. Yes, there's some backstory there that we're not privy to. Was there a point to those toys? What? Why? What again? Why? etc.

WARNING!
Objects under T-shirt are larger than they appear!

[–] buffyMove 8 years ago

I think they guy outside the barber who gave him a toy was a nice man. Unrelated to the killer.

You don't need to read this, it's just my sig.