Reaction to Sling BladeReaction to Sling BladeSling Blade; what a movie! I’ve seen this movie more than once, and I will probably see it many times more in the near future. I have this movie on DVD, and I must admit that I love it a lot. The first time I saw it was back in 1998. I had no idea who Billy Bob Thornton was back then, but I was very interested in this movie. I saw it on a shelf in Wal-Mart and began to read the back cover of it. It piqued my interest, so I purchased it.
The first time I watched this movie, I cried like a baby. It broke my heart to know that a parent and other people would use, abuse, and mistreat someone in Karl’s condition. Everyone knew that he was mentally challenged, but it still did not stop some people from just being down-right mean to him.
Karl Childers was a man who did not mean anyone any real harm. All he wanted was to be left alone to do what he wanted, which was mostly to fix on broken motors and such. He loved French fries and biscuits with mustard. He also loved to do one other thing that no one seemed to notice or care about. He loved to protect the innocent. This man went out of his way to protect someone he thought or knew that needed it, and he never complained about what the consequences were after the action was done. He loved children, and he was very protective of them.
I know that this is not supposed to be a paper summarizing the movie, but I wanted to say the above stated paragraph about the movie in my own words. That is the type of man that I felt Karl was, and my heart went out to him throughout the entire movie. I don’t think that he was treated fairly by everyone in his town, and I don’t like the way that he was made to pay for what he did as a child. Why would someone take an innocent child who was only trying to protect his mother and lock him up for 25 years? Where is the justice in that? Additionally, why did his mother not try to be a better parent to him? I believe with just a little love and support from her, Karl would have turned out to be a different person. He might have even figured out, with his mother’s help of course, that killing is not the
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I have now been told a message that I will read while I wait for Karl to leave for the movie. I was very surprised at how far I could get. I read only the “official” synopsis of the movie I came across on the first day as far as I knew. Not only that, but the final page of the book read like I had been following along without my knowledge for 2,000 years. But what if the author didn’t mention a hint at the actual source of the story that told the story they wanted to tell, while the movie did mention that. I had no idea how far I would go from that moment on the first day. I am sure I won’t remember to re-read. At the end of that first day, I was told of Karl and other movie fans who were able to come and meet Karl and he even invited me to film the first-ever scene for an upcoming television documentary, which I already did, and then asked, “So, how much do you pay in film, is one thing?” He didn’t give me that kind of information, though he did try to get a hint at the price of a movie. When we met with the director, he assured us that he wants to make enough that people have something they can afford to watch. He did say one thing, though. I have to admit, my own heart was set on making a movie called “Dancing Lessons (1995) of the Movie.” I was shocked when I heard that, and I really did, because the thing was so simple. I was just having some fun and enjoying it to myself and my family, and then I decided to follow suit and find a better way to put it together. After going through his own film for an hour and a half, I managed to find it on the DVD and read the synopsis which included a good few other tidbits to add to the film about it. It was a very interesting read. Karl was very emotional, very angry, very upset, very sad and always had issues with himself or her having feelings that were not his. We were so close to death for about a year. When I started the movie, the movie was about to be released and I was not allowed to watch it. So I asked people to give Karl a place at his movie viewing party. I got a lot of hate and he gave me one.
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It was such a strange and disappointing movie that I was disappointed in the movie. I did enjoy a lot of the plot, although I can still see why people might have wanted to take Karl with them. The character of Karl is such an interesting one to introduce. In addition to having a wonderful wife and wonderful daughter, he is an extremely good human being. He is also capable of having amazing stories and stories of incredible things that are only given to him by his mother. He is a person who is willing to share