Dr Petit

LOL

and this is why its so easily to pull the wool over your eyes

any reason why he was sleeping downstairs while his entire family was upstairs?

why didnt they tie him? They just knocked him out

He woke up and ran out for his own safety..not a care on his children or wife

How else would he be able to prove he wasnt in on it if he didnt get them to beat him up?

again sheep.

The poor man lost his whole family in an instant. His family died a horrible death! How is he supposed to act? The man is forever broken!

In these tragic situations, it's common for loved ones of victims to repress their emotions and subsume their grief under vengeance. There seems to be a common myth that when the perpetrators are dead, they will feel better. They don't. It's very anticlimactic. They still bear all that unresolved grief, loss, and pain, and no longer have anywhere to focus it.

Repressing the pain is especially common in men, since they have been encouraged to repress emotions their entire lives. I'm sure it would be even more common amongst physicians, who've HAD to ignore their own needs and function logically and analytically without adequate sleep or time for loved ones and moral support during years of residency and internship in order to become doctors. The intro describes Dr. Petit as continuing to work 13+ hr days even once a successful doctor. Sounds like someone who already wanted to avoid sitting in his own skin with time to think and feel.

In the description during the first few minutes, I was initially sketchy about him, too. I figured I'd seen too many previews for Lifetime Movie Network flicks. Then I remembered that statistically, the greatest danger to a woman is from her husband/boyfriend. An adult woman is more likely to be murdered by her partner than by a stranger. It's simply the state of the US as it is now. Mercifully, it isn't always true.

I started this film about 6 mos. ago and just could not get through it. I finished watching this last nite. Oh my,what a very sad story. My heart goes out to Dr.Petit and althogh I also oppose the death penalty, I can understand his anger as it is born of so much greif. As a movie, this is scarier and far more intense than any horror film I've ever seen. It's that way simply because it actually happened. Someone on this board remarked earlier about the idea that there could be people at the local mall who would follow you home and come back later sends chills.

Revenge? Yeah I think he has the right to feel that way.

I agree with you.

But - in defense of the original poster - a lot of people have said the same thing. At least early on, a lot of people were suspicious of the husband/father.

Since you were a "witness", I assume that you shared all of these, umm, "facts" with the police?