PerpetrationOctober 13, 2017 | by Aram Yardumian | Category: Film |
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Casting JonBenet (2017), Netflix, Directed by Kitty Green — 'Can you know what your prayers have set in motion?'– CT Dreyer 'Ordet' 'A real whore should be able to attract by what she's reduced to being' – Jean Genet 'The Screens' It was a crime that re-defined perfect. On Christmas night 1996, the most sacrosanct American values—home, family, children's innocence—even Christmas—were all violated in a single obscene act. Not since Hickock and Smith had the country at large felt so unsure of itself as a free and trusting society. And like England in the era of Brady and Hindley, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey led many Americans to imagine something unimaginable to them: an impulse so selfish that a child's life could be bartered for a moment of sex. Although it probably wasn't. [Read more] |
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Death Defying
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