Tag: Adapting Real Life
Gacy (2003): The American Jekyll and Hyde
In 1993 on death row in Chester, Illinois, John Wayne Gacy said: “If you serve other people, it will come back to serve you.”...
Blue Caprice (2013) and the Child Soldiers of America
Societal shock gripped the Washington, D.C. area in October of 2002. Over the course of twenty days, ten people were shot and killed by...
ZODIAC (2007): Never Let Ethics Get in the Way of a Good Story
Anybody who’s serious about appreciating film, and filmmakers, can admit that David Fincher— whether you like him or not— is one of the great...
Gun Violence, Small Town Stability and the Cauterized Wound in Out of the Blue...
America’s all but resigned itself as a nation to being rocked every week or so by new gun massacres. People who’ve seen it as...