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The soul of Robert Durst

posted 10 years ago by holiduong
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The recording in the bathroom made me feel sorry for him. How can a person become so lost? How can he live with himself all these years? For me, the sentence of living with that black conscience is the most terrifying prison. Having to keep up with all his lies, and justifying his actions to himself is exhausting. It's a miserable existence. And when he said in the bathroom "Oh, I want this," I interpreted it as him secretly want to get caught in order break free with the truth, in order to find peace in his soul. He even told Andrew Jarecki that he will answer ALL his questions, which means he wanted and expected the truth to be found out. "There it is. You're caught." Why didn't he just confess then? Well, it takes a lot of courage to confess, and he's so deep in his lies he's scared *beep* Imagine being in his position who has so much to lose, who has an army of lawyers who tell him that going to prison is the worst thing that can happen to him. His life is not his to live and I believe he suffers. Every day. That's why you see pictures of him smiling now and you can see his eyes again. He's actually happy that he's busted because now everyone knows he killed them. There's nothing to hide anymore. The documentary is a journey into Robert Durst's soul, one plagued and tortured with guilt, fear and shame and his last trace of humanity kicking and screaming to get out.
http://nypost.com/2015/04/02/why-is-robert-durst-smiling/
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-shakespeare-knew-about-robert-durst "Evil rarely laughs evilly in delight at its misdoings; it smiles the tight, shared smile of resignation, and then blinks its eyes."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKKOH9zvTj4

[–] gwenbutler 10 years ago

Very well said. Totally agree.

[–] LittleFrida 10 years ago

I often felt sorry for him, too. Specially, like you, when you hear him talking to himself in the bathroom.

I frankly believe that Durst mentally is more ill like most people think. That guy is one tortured soul. Haunted by his own painful history that was so miserable right from the start when he was a kid.

The Asperger's he got diagnosed with obviously gave him a hard time properly interacting and communicating with other people since he can remember. Seems like he always was aware that he is different, yet couldn't change it.

I don't really think that his bathroom ramblings were something like a confession. He talked to himself without any sense in my opinion. He just said loud whatever sentence popped up in his mind. Maybe he only played with the thought what WOULD happen if he said that.

This is no excuse for murder, but maybe explains why it even came so far.
This guy has no self-control whatsoever, neither in what he says nor what he does.
His action of recently peeing on a candy shelf in a store pretty much also shows that something is seriously warped with his social nature and mental state.

He's a sick man, mentally and now also physically. From what I read they think he might even die in prison before his case gets solved/closed. He has cancer, had a brain surgery to relieve fluids out of his head that causes massive neurological issues.

He is pretty much on the end of his road, I guess.

[–] justKryptonite 9 years ago

Really? You think this man who killed three people at least and got away with all of them for that long has no self control?! He is full of self control, think of how much control it takes for someone to murder someone and then go to the cops and convince them and all of New York that his version which he admits was a lie was the complete truth. He had the self control to go and kill his best friend whom I think he actually cared for, as much as someone like him can really care for someone other than himself. I understand he is now an old man and people like yourself look at him and see a sad soul but he is just as evil as he was when he murdered his first wife, and he is the same man who killed his best friend. That sad old man who you deem as mentally ill went on to kill another man and chop him up and get away with it. People try to pin human emotions on people like Durst when in reality he doesn't feel what we do. He did the movie to entertain himself or maybe just to get attention but the one reason he didn't do it for was to get caught. I will save my sympathy for the families of his victims.

[–] Mehki_Girl 9 years ago

Hear, hear, well sad. Like toy said, people tru to apply human emotions to psychopaths like Durst. It doesn't work. The only time they get upset is when they are going to be hurt.