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the banality of Evil, indeed.

posted 11 years ago by scovazze
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who cares about horror movies? This movie contains real, undiluted evil.

Not in the con artist, who is surely effed up and in need of a lifetime of mental treatment, but as far as we know he never hurt or killed anyone.
Perhaps not even in the family - they are horrendous, but somehow they can't help being ignorant white trash on drugs. I don't know whether they killed the boy, but considering how they were all totally out of their minds, I'm thinking about an accident, rather than cold-blooded murder of a kid.

No: REAL evil is in the dead eyes of the FBI cow. The passive-aggressive monster first acts sweet and dumb, but in the scene about the polygraph she was so absolutely stubborn and resolute to save her own ass that she scared me to death. I don't want to live on the same planet as that monster. I really hope she was duly kicked out of the FBI right after this - but somehow it looks like she was still working at the time of the documentary, so I'm afraid she might be still there, using and abusing her authority in God knows which evil ways. Brrrr.

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[–] PoppyTransfusion 11 years ago

What an interesting post and response to the woman on film.

Why do you refuse to remember me?

[–] uberfox 11 years ago

Evil is evil it doesn't matter if its a woman,man or a child.

[–] g_monte 11 years ago

I found it interesting that she made the mother take the polygraph over and over until she got the results that she wanted. What a great, ethical investigational approach. Who cares about the truth? Yeah, I hope they booted her ass too.

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[–] flyingcowherder 10 years ago

I wouldn't call the FBI woman evil, but I did find it highly objectionable the way she continually administered the lie detector test until she got the result she was looking for.

[–] kingcarcas 10 years ago

Didn't i hear it's inadmissible? I've heard a lot of things we see in movies aren't allowed in real court because of how unreliable they can be

Assume nothing; Question everything

[–] ladylaughinglizard 9 years ago

I totally agree... And she just blundered the entire thing. Especially after Charlie Parker told her the ears didn't match and she didn't investigate further.

Then later on while she said she was jumping up and down and clapping and "so excited" she was cheering when Frederic's fax came in? Calm down, bitch, months ago you were swearing up and down he was Nicholas. This is not your victory.