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Date Posted: 14:30:20 12/29/03 Mon
Author: Walt K
Subject: Saw it awhile ago now
In reply to: Silk 's message, "Re: Sling Blade (and a note for Walt K)." on 16:46:35 12/24/03 Wed

But I'll try and work from my memory.

Karl realises he can't live in the world as it is - he's been out of it too long. So he may as well do something good and take out the bastard who is ruining the life of these decent people. So in a way he willingy sacrifices any chance he has of a life outside asylums (although he probably thinks theres not much chance of that anyway).

I'm not sure of legalities, but if you're insane you're insane aren't you. Does premeditation matter? Although what I'm saying above suggests that Karl knew exactly what he was doing (as you are), so in that respect isn't insane. Although calling teh police and then sitting down and having a sandwich after a murder is questionable behaviour I would think.

Dwight as a villian? I still see him that way and I think someone agreed with me in the thread. Not all rednecks are abusive, violent people. Redneck refers to the geographical as much as the behaviour. I agree he isn't a 'villian' in the cinematic sense, like Alan Rickman or in the cartoon sense like Lex Luther or the Joker. But to me he's in the movie to get the viewer to take sides and represent evil - so a villian, especially stacked up against the other characters of the movie.

He's similiar to a character in "In the Bedroom" with Sissy Spacek froma couple of years ago. Horrible, sinister wife beater - but the villian of the movie no doubt.

On Billy Bob and Alan Rickman, I saw that Richard curtis movie last night "Love Atually". Went to see Mystic River but it was sold out so got dragged into this pathetic sop of a film, which I resisted as much as I could but I think it dragged me in, in the end. Billy Bob plays a sleazy US president and Rickman does his middle class family man bit.

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Possibly, my perception of that species known as as "redneck" has been spoiled by a little something I like to call... -- Silk, 23:57:08 01/03/04 Sat