Butchering the Bodies

I enjoyed this movie. And I thought the end worked just fine. A lot of the complaints Ive been reading here are fairly pedantic and nitpicky in my opinion. But the one thing that perplexed me was why would he assume butchering the bodies, as if it had been a gruesome murder and not an assisted suicide, would look LESS suspicious then just having them leave a suicide note. No one is going to assume a dozen suicides spread over the course of 3,000 miles was any big deal. But a head cut off? And a stomach cut out and thrown to the dogs? Seriously? I assume the movie just added those elements as a kind of artistic license so that there was something more gruesome than death by poison tea for the jaded viewer. I chalk it up to the CSI conditioning weve had for the past 20 years where every 60 minute episode of a crime investigation story involves some horrific act of brutality. But I just dont understand the logic behind hiding your tracks as a suicide assister by elaborating the murder scene. Wouldnt that make it more likely the authorities would want to track this guy down?


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