Granted, the thieves are terrible people and they deserved to be arrested and put in jail for awhile.
But just because you break into someone's house doesn't mean they're allowed to trap you in the house and hunt you down like an animal. That goes way beyond defending yourself and your home and into the homicidal maniac territory.
The Blind Man was never going to let them go. He couldn't. That wasn't clear to us at the time he locked his house down, but it became clear the minute we saw what he was hiding in his basement.
I mean, this is a guy who has a custom made acid tub hidden under the floor to melt corpses. He didn't seem like he was in the business of letting guests -- invited or not -- leave the house.
If he let anyone go, he ran the risk of the authorities getting involved. That would have been it for his captured girl, his gestating baby and his stash of cash.
Self defence doesn't mean trapping everyone inside hunting them one by one. That's not self defence, that's homicide.
Like poster above said he had no intention of letting them go but every intention of killing the boys and keeping the girl captive to be his baby mama? None of that is self defence..
If you find that sympathetic then you must be borderline yourself.
They are thieves... they are pathetic, they are worthless... anyone like that deserves everything bad that could happen to them.
ALL THIEVES, ALL RAPISTS, ALL MOLESTERS, ALL OF THOSE WHO PHYSICALLY ABUSE OTHERS (no matter if it is another adult or child), ALL OF THOSE WHO VANDALIZE OR STEAL THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS, ALL OF THOSE LOWLIFE PIECES OF TRASH
SHOULD BE EXECUTED... that would clean up our society.
I really mean that... if someone is guilty of any of these things, they DESERVE TO DIE - EXECUTE THEM.
They don't deserve slaps on the wrists, or meaningless probably... execution is the only way.
As in your post: Old Blind Guy deserved to die because he was a rapist. (Hello, woman in the basement he impregnated)
Are you forgetting that little fact?
Old Blind Guy may have been trying to get revenge (she took his daughter's life, so she was going to give him a new daughter) and it may have been rape with a turkey baster (ok fine if you want to be technical it was a sexual assault with a turkey baster but close enough)
Then with Rocky he was first going to turkey baster a new baby but later he decided he wasn't going to take chances and actually rape her in the attempt to impregnate her so by your own omission Old Blind Guy deserves to die/gets what he deserves (or rather less than because he's not dead).
What I found interesting is that my loyalties shifted throughout. The home invaders either said or did stuff that pissed me off at points in the movie. But the Blind Man was truly a brutal human being, so I had to root for the invaders in the end.
> you kill them as quick as you can shoot and do not lose a wink of sleep over it.
No, you call the police to arrest them. Only a completely insane person will shoot a tresspasser who does not pose immediate threat. Sadly this threat is full of mental patients that escaped from the hospital.
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To be fair, he didn't trap them and hunt them down until he discovered his money was stolen. But yeah, much like real people, neither party were perfect protagonists or antagonists.
I hope everyone here has heard of the literary classic "Crime and Punishment". It's called that for a reason. It's not called Crime and Getting Away With It, or Crime and Don't Worry the Hippies will be Sure You're Treated Fairly. If you are generally a "bad" person, and decide to premeditate a robbery of a blind man, and he gets the better of you, well, you gambled and lost, friend! Do you deserve a trial by your peers? You betcha. Does the blind man deserve to believe that he has the right to protect himself in his own home? He sure does. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I have a feeling I know who I'll be rooting for.
I felt bad for the blind man even though he is NO longer sane, he has become like Detroit, the scum are left behind. What happened to the mom of his daughter???
Spoiler alert for them spoil sports out there! Y'all like spoiled milk, stop crying over it!
Funny. Have you actually read Crime and Punishment? Because the punishment in that book is one of a person being tortured by the guilt of what he has done and paranoia of him not being caught. It has nothing to do with this movie.
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