After watching MSNBC last night on John Karr, I am fairly convinced of a few things:
There are some mixed messages from people who "knew" him. Once thing is for certain, he has an inferiority feeling that might be eliviated or lessoned by control over others. I am not sure that I understand why Alabama allows marriages of children of 13 year-olds to 19 year-olds. I would think that it should be outright illegal, but it seems that there may not be a clause requiring parental agreement. This was John Karr's first failed marriage. His second marriage collapsed after two boys were born.
Later he was dismissed for teaching behaviors, allegations, and demonstrated control-issues over others. Children are generally weaker, better targets for predators. I think clearly, he is a hetrosexual pedophile (for what difference that makes), but can be useful for tracking criminal behavior.
His strange obsession with criminal histories of Polly Klass and JonBonet are worrisome, but not criminal in themselves. His confession is likely a low point in his psyche. He was controlling, in that he held minimal paying sub jobs, yet survived fairly well, but matched with possible paranoia (not typical). He took traceable jobs (teaching is a government job, very traceable) so paranoia doesn't jibe well with a pedophile taking high risks in highly visible jobs. Relocating to Bangkok made more sense in that he could blend into a large city and become invisible despite his English-only and pronounced Euro-American visage.
His internet discourse, leading up to his arrest and then surprising confession, were interesting, but his confession is merely a ploy to overcome his inferiority. The inferiority stems, likely, from failed relationships, poorer paying jobs, inconsistent work, body physique and plummet from "successful-looking high school student" to downtrodden meager man, relatively insignificant.
To be sure, his first marriage alone is demonstrative of pedophilia, but his deranged affection for child murder is a clearer sign of what likely lies ahead for society if he isn't executed.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Karr repair
V for Vengence
When I saw this, I thought it was like an incomplete sentence. It was a startling, good sentence, but still not yet complete. I would rate this fairly high for adaption to graphic novel, as there are elements that cannot be portrayed in film as they can be in comic form and for condensing an elaborate series into the movie.
The incompletion was in characters, but that likely would have made it longer and boring. I think, really, the addtion of the Matrix effects didn't help it any. I would have rather had standard quick reflexes and sophisticated, but not 100% CG, as some of the scenes were, and obViously so.
I'm sure the author of the graphic novel read quite a bit of literature, based on its similarity to many more famous works and to the protagonist's vernacular and great use of classic and neo-classic literature and media.
I would give it a 7.2 (high, but I'm ranking it lower because it has little novelty to offer the second time around).
+ It is interesting that Natlie Portman had some scenes that, from a Star Wars fan, seemed, well, "borrowed".
frozen master
I didn't think I could find these, but I did, but boy -- what I saw was not good quality. It looked like a home movie of a home movie of a TV show.
Having watched Dungeons & Dragons the Saturday morning cartoon makes me old.
attic find
This is from The Grudge, which had a great thing of scary elements, timing, suspense. I think what the director, Takashi Shimizu, did well was using the special effects and scary moments in short bursts, not two minutes here, five minutes there. He timed the moments specifically.
Surprisingly, I liked this movie. I re-watched it recently. What else can you do when you are tired at 3:00 am and can't sleep?
