Based on actual historically verified events. I hate "based on a true story" which is the same as" based on a true fiction"...a fiction is also defined as a story etc) Clyde Thompson was paroled in 1955. He was in fact a reasonable prolific serial murderer even for the time he was operating. His alliance with a devoted woman and prisoner finds christ routine, which in his case was likely less of a con then today's silliness......got this triple life sentence murderer paroled early.
The story is remarkable ...but not because of the con finds christ thing, or the marriage he lucked into, or the viciousness he was capable of, or the sentimentalized guts and honesty that is trumped up here for the final emotional payoffs......
I find it for the historical illustration of the complete dehumanization of the species that has occurred in the last decades. For his crimes , if sentenced in the last 30 years he would have been executed 10 times over, or if in a jurisdiction where the capricious garbage surrounding the legislation on capitol punishmnet allowed it...given multiple like sentences with no chance of parole EVER under any circumstances.
But, It isn't that "TIMES" have changed...people have become so viscious and inhumane, this movie is interesting as a portrait, a tragically sad one, of how even if a man does become a saint, he will still be incarcerated or killed by the Fed. there is ZERO humanity anywhere in the legal system...I wpork with it and know intimately that money rules every desicion. Payoffs dominate every aspect of everything. Guilt or innocence are completely irrelevant. Prisoners, commodities of the criminal industry, can be guilty or innocent...the point is to give them a smuch TIME incarcerated as possible, or kill them. Why, when you have a person that kilss, lets say 4o people, abd admits it, is allowed to appeal for 30 years? That is another 30 years of income for the Gov. there are ZERO ethics, moral sanity, or any humanity at any point in process. the cops, lawyers, judges are all hypocritical whores . All existing to profit from the crimes they process and encourage. Why do cops hide in the dark and bushes to bust t"traffic offenders" instead of drive around to discourage unsafe driving?....obviously thew WANT you to "offend" because their stinking income derives from your behaviors.
But at this period in amerikkkan history. on occasion human realities could sometimes prevail...SOMETIMES, as in this case where the person they let go went on to become a very important influence for "goodness" .
This would NEVER happen today or ever again. At present, we are "led" by the most evil monster in human civilization after decades of increasingly awful monstrosities.
So, I know how heavy handed and sophomoric and verbose I can be for a "non-intellect" ...but the interest in this movies lies in it as a biopsy tool for a social illustration of how far we have fallen as a species. Our humanity is gone...within a few years automation and the obviously engineered and manipulated plague will have wiped out ALL jobs, hundreds of millions of lives , and that is its intent.
i was born well before Clyde's parole and have witnessed the total degradation of the species in ll ways. It is shocking and terrible. It is not simply because a coca cola that cost 5 cents when i was a kid...a can of fake coke now costs $2.00$ etc......it is not simply the hyperinflation that trump will super nova in a few years to make us cashless..the goal..tht is merely a financuial bump on the way to utter moral and physical death for almost the entire human race except for a few trillionaires...with inflation billionaires are now the new millionaire class. Poverty will go from merely rampant to TOTAL....with no food and people dying in the streets...exactly what the corporations and their handmaiden gov afilliates are designing..........
and this movie is just a wek sentimental reminder of that but the SUBTEXT is powerful.
People used to be HUMAN...not anymore. They are highly censored robots
destroying each other for hyperinfated worthless paper. This film harkens to the final days before this evil transition became the NORM.
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