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MONUMENTATION OF !WOW'S! SORROW!''
This whole wretched tragedy boils down to so many factors that one can barely fathom how best to list them. But even ignorant like me knows that in the deep recesses of a sick mind, lurks ''Fatal Tormented Attraction!'' And mark my words such tragedies encourage obsession in others. They keep happening. We keep mourning and we keep forgetting.
And plenty of us are obsessed, Our fascination with multiple murderers is studied in the latest works by two of the sharpest observers of modern America. While director David Fincher follows the fictional repeat slayer of Se7en with the reconstruction of the actual Zodiac, killing in Seventies California, writer Chuck Palahnuk (Fight Club, Choke) creates an American maniac called Buster Casey in his latest novel, Rant.
The risk of endorsement is even greater now because the tradition of focusing on the investigative detective rather than the killer has broken down.Clarice Starling was the central character of ''The Silence of the Lambs but Lecter is centre-screen in Hannibal and the recent Hannibal Rising -almost unequivocally the hero. The shift in perspective was also signaled in the title of Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer
In this context, -while being wary of plot spoiling- it's interesting to note that what Fincher's Zodiac and Palahniuk's Rant have in common is that the serial killer is not a central character.The emphasis instead is on victims and the obsessive interest of cops, journalists and members of the general public. That seems right, because what's really fascinating is not that a few human aberrations commit these acts, but that they enthrall so many law-abiding citizens.
But the genre's bias towards the past is also a measure of our own desensitisation.
Author Chuck Palahniuk speaks from his heart, '' I wanted to buy into the paranoia of our time, global illness and political totalitarianism, and how much we really seem to enjoy this paranoia.''
And the author of 'Rant; then sounds a serious and earth shaking insight, ''to explore the idea of people being removed from society, it would be very easy for someone to generate an incurable disease in order to infect people and remove them(Casey starts a rabies epidemic) without looking like you were gathering political prisoners and creating gulag.''
Oh, dear, God!
The world it seems will never be short of killer creativity!!! The battle between a killer or a saviour is always the big struggle.
My thinking is that Truth no matter how harsh and complex must be knowable.
Truth must triumph!
Good Night & God Bless!
This whole wretched tragedy boils down to so many factors that one can barely fathom how best to list them. But even ignorant like me knows that in the deep recesses of a sick mind, lurks ''Fatal Tormented Attraction!'' And mark my words such tragedies encourage obsession in others. They keep happening. We keep mourning and we keep forgetting.
And plenty of us are obsessed, Our fascination with multiple murderers is studied in the latest works by two of the sharpest observers of modern America. While director David Fincher follows the fictional repeat slayer of Se7en with the reconstruction of the actual Zodiac, killing in Seventies California, writer Chuck Palahnuk (Fight Club, Choke) creates an American maniac called Buster Casey in his latest novel, Rant.
The risk of endorsement is even greater now because the tradition of focusing on the investigative detective rather than the killer has broken down.Clarice Starling was the central character of ''The Silence of the Lambs but Lecter is centre-screen in Hannibal and the recent Hannibal Rising -almost unequivocally the hero. The shift in perspective was also signaled in the title of Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer
In this context, -while being wary of plot spoiling- it's interesting to note that what Fincher's Zodiac and Palahniuk's Rant have in common is that the serial killer is not a central character.The emphasis instead is on victims and the obsessive interest of cops, journalists and members of the general public. That seems right, because what's really fascinating is not that a few human aberrations commit these acts, but that they enthrall so many law-abiding citizens.
But the genre's bias towards the past is also a measure of our own desensitisation.
Author Chuck Palahniuk speaks from his heart, '' I wanted to buy into the paranoia of our time, global illness and political totalitarianism, and how much we really seem to enjoy this paranoia.''
And the author of 'Rant; then sounds a serious and earth shaking insight, ''to explore the idea of people being removed from society, it would be very easy for someone to generate an incurable disease in order to infect people and remove them(Casey starts a rabies epidemic) without looking like you were gathering political prisoners and creating gulag.''
Oh, dear, God!
The world it seems will never be short of killer creativity!!! The battle between a killer or a saviour is always the big struggle.
My thinking is that Truth no matter how harsh and complex must be knowable.
Truth must triumph!
Good Night & God Bless!
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