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The film Slingblade depicts a mentally challenged man, Karl Childers, played by Billy Bob Thornton, and his trials and tribulations of life. When he comes out of the mental institution he was residing in, he meets a boy named Frank who accepts him as a human being like no one had previously done to him. The whole movie shows how this intricate mentally retarded man; who was domesticated from all his time in the mental house adapts to the outside world. Throughout all the foul judgment and harsh words sent his way, he maintains a certain level of sanity and civilness throughout the madness. The beginning of the movie starts and he tells his tales of his murders. Now what’s the first thing you always assume about a …show more content…

This was a great move on his behalf, because he ended up becoming best friends with this boy and even breaking out of character and engaging in a friendly football game with him and his friends. This is something you’d expect from your friendly neighborhood father, not someone who previously committed a double murder. These two scenes are towards the beginning of the movie and are merely foreshadowing to show that Karl is indeed a caring person and can live a meaningful and compassionate life.
The last montage of scenes in the movie where Karl goes around and talks to all the people he cares about is really the icing on the cake. He shows that throughout his life, he has truly done what he thought was best for people he truly cared about. Even if this meant he would have to sit in a padded room for the rest of his life. His first murder he thought he was helping his mother out of a terrible situation that she was in. Even though his mother and father neglected him and made him live in a shack out back, he still cared for his mother enough to come to her defense, or so he thought. He thought she was getting raped by the neighborhood goon, Jesse Dixon. When he found out that his mother actually enjoyed it, he said, “I reckon that made me even madder then what Jesse had made me.” He then reacted out of pure anger and killed his mother too.
He first talks to the mother and thanks her for how kind she has been in taking

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