Murder shots
Disgusting photos of Bob Crane's murder shots. They aren't increadibly gorey, but it's enough to make your stomach turn. And it may possibly ruin the show for you...
It's just so sad
What was shown in the movie was nothing compared to the real murder shots, which I've seen - THOSE would make your stomach turn.
shareThe gore in the movie is SUPPOSED to turn the viewer off.
It's kind of the point. There is no violence in the film until the point where Crane is murdered. It's like punctuation on a very long sentence.
Like the old saying goes---"If you're not appalled, you're not paying attention".
Have we become so used to how cavalier most filmmakers are in their use of violent imagery? John McTeirnan, James Cameron and a host of others became a millionare using killings just so Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwartzenegger, and others could have a clever way to use catchphrases. Most action films fill their running times with people whose sole purpose in the film is be killed by the hero. It's vapid and meaningless.
The difference is that the violence in Auto Focus is not mindless. It is purposely vistited on someone who the viewer has come to know. It disgusts us because the film shows us a real, flawed, but still likeable person meeting a bad end.
It engages our empathy, our sympathy, and our pity.
I think it's good you were nauseated by the murder of Bob Crane. It means Paul Schrader is a good filmmaker, and that he did his job right.
It also means you haven't become so desensitised to violence that you can't feel for another person.
i haven't seen this movie in a while but did it say who (or why) he was murdered?
that may seem dumb but it's been a while give me a break
The murder is still unsolved, the evidence against Carpenter was not enough for the State to place him on trial, but the case was reopened years later and he was put on trial in 1994 (the murder was in 1978). He was found not guilty. Carpenter died of a heart attack in 1998.
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Photographs of Carpenters rental car suggest that the technicians missed a bit of evidence (possible brain matter) that could have tied Carpenter to the murder scene. Sorry, I don't have reference for this, I saw it on "American Justice" or some such similar cable TV show.
The movie suggests that Carpenter was not a terribly attractive man who had trouble getting women on his own and needed Bob to get laid. Bob wanted out of the lifestyle and thus angered Carpenter giving him a motive to kill in a crime of passion. Another possible motive was that improving technology in home video recording and playback meant that technicians like Carpenter were no longer needed. Both of these scenarios of course assume that Carpenter was the killer, which was never proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
let's be clear..carpenter killed bob crane...yes he was found not guilty by a u.s court, but so was o.j and robert blake...
the cops never looked at anyone else...and oh yeah, that pesky brain matter in carpy's car
it is better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it