Did Movie Inspire Killer?
Brooke Anderson looks at the pop culture factor: Could 2003 South Korean movie have inspired Va. Tech killer?
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In the 2003 South Korean film Old Boy, a man seeks revenge on those who kidnapped him and murdered his wife. He goes on a bloody rampage, wielding a hammer against a throng of his former jailors.
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It's this image that's raising the question: Did Cho Seung-Hui ever see Old Boy and if so, was he influenced by it? Newsweek pop culture writer Devin Gordon thinks so.
It seems clear to me that Cho saw the movie Old Boy and admired it and enjoyed it a great deal. But, what it did for him was not, inspire him to kill 32 people, what Old Boy did was maybe provide details and poses a script to follow as he did it because maybe he didn't have a reference point of his own. www.hjbbs.com。转载请注明出处。
Forensic psychologist Michael Peck, who specilizes in murder suicide cases, says films like this can influence troubled minds.
I don't know exactly if it gives them the idea, I think it helps them implement whatever ideas and urges they may already have. It pushes them in direction of thinking for example, I could achieve glory this way, alright? Can achieve as he wanted to do, er, permanent immortality.
We'll never know for sure if it influenced Cho, but there have been cases in the past where violent films have been linked to violent acts by young people.www.hjbbs.com。转载请注明出处。
Oliver Stone's 1994 film Natural Born Killers centers on a young couple who become celebrities after a nationwide killing spree. In 1995, 18-year-old Sara Edmundson and her boyfriend Benjamin Deros went on a shooting spree of their own, killing one person and paralyzing another. Edmundson told authorities that before the shootings, they had taken LSD and watched Natural Born Killers.
Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris referenced that same film in notes to each other. Eyewitnesses to their 1999 murder spree said it reminded them of the Matrix. Dressed in black trench coats, they killed 12 students and a teacher before commiting suicide.
The violence is not attributable to the Matrix, what is attributable to the Matrix is merely the details and the imagery, the way in which they may have gone about it.
Leonardo DiCaprio's character shot up his school in a dream sequence in the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries. Two years later, teenager Michael Carneal killed three classmates and wounded five others in Paducha, Kentucky. He later told police he had been influenced in part by the movie. www.hjbbs.com。转载请注明出处。
Experts believe that no single factor can be blamed for turning a troubled person into a mass killer but they say a violent film can provide that same disturbed individual with the script for disaster. www.hjbbs.com。转载请注明出处。
Brooke Anderson, CNN Hollywood.
