Richard Kuklinski was no family man. He was a twisted psychopath who considered his wife and children his property. He even had two young boys before he even met Barbara, his wife in the movie. He regularly beat her, and she even plotted to kill him at one point.
Here's an article with more detail:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9959985/Married-to-The-Iceman. html
Its just a movie man, they never show the true side of the story on movies.
shareRichard Kuklinski was no family man. He was a twisted psychopath who considered his wife and children his property. He even had two young boys before he even met Barbara, his wife in the movie. He regularly beat her, and she even plotted to kill him at one point.
Knight, thanks for your comment, but you don't need to be so condescending to get your point across. I did watch the movie, and I think you should rewatch it yourself looking beyond the surface. The emotional center of the narrative concerns Kuklinski's double life--his choice to be both a serial killer and a family man, and the movie spends a lot of time playing up his roll as a family man.
At its core, the movie is about this contradiction.
When I say the movie is bullcrap, what I mean is the contradiction is a complete fabrication. He was not a loving husband and father. He treated his family like possessions, regularly beat the hell out of his wife, and even threatened to kill her family before they ever married. He had kids before they met. He was a crafty sociopath, but his capacity for actual love is pretty questionable considering all of this. Does this sound like the guy represented by the movie you watched?
And I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about when you say you like consistency in your life and in hear-say stories. Does that mean you'll just stick to the first thing you hear because you don't like to change your beliefs? No offense, but that's probably not the best way to form your beliefs about anything--even a movie.
Since you brought it up, what I would ask for, in a biopic about a serial killer, is to not falsify his true intentions for the sake of an easily digestible narrative. This film simply gives the audience a familiar story. A man conflicted between his job and his family. But the real story, the story of an insane sociopath murdering innocent people and keeping a wife and family as if they're his prisoners, seems far more complex and interesting. I'd rather have a close representation of the truth than a falsified story with a pretty little bow on it.
The other thing that was totally false was the extent of his murders. He killed maybe 5 people.
He claims he worked for Roy Demeo, but no one in Roy's crew ever heard of him.
He was a hitman, but he was not the hitman par excellance, that he claims.
He read murder machine in jail, and then made up a lot of his hits.
That being said, it was an enjoyable movie.
Richard Kuklinski was no family man. He was a twisted psychopath who considered his wife and children his property. He even had two young boys before he even met Barbara, his wife in the movie. He regularly beat her, and she even plotted to kill him at one point
That is a great article. The part about his wife is totally believable.
However, when he has lost everything, he wanted to be known as the worst killer ever.
(sure, he claimed to kill Roy Demeo, Paul Castellano, Jimmy Hoffa).
He claimed he was Roy's favorite hitman.
Yet, no one in Roy's crew, which actually did kill 200 people had ever heard of him.
A true Ice Man is Roy Demeo.
Read Murder Machine, to see a true serial killer/Mafia Hitman.
Goldshine you talk with such authority about how many people he killed that I must ask you... Who the *beep* are you exactly and what makes you so sure??
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