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| Virginia Killer's Violent Writings |
| 2007-04-18 |
| Link to Smoking Gun's copy of a play written by Cho. Cho was not a gifted writer and takes more than a few swings and a miss at the English language. However, the content is chilling and shows the boy had issues, serious issues. parental and otherwise. Sure doesn't like his Dad - the dry-cleaning guy. I think he was more schizophrenic than depressed. Do read the short "play" he submitted to a short story writing contest. It's a peek at a very twisted mind. |
| Posted by:Thinemp Whimble |
| #2 Got to the part about the government's conspiracies to kill John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe and thought I'd accidentally clicked over to the Daily Kos. |
| Posted by: exJAG 2007-04-18 19:36 |
| #1 AOL has that one and another, possibly even worse (in terms of writing quality). If you're disturbed by the violence in the play, then I advise you to stay away from movies, comic books, video games, and music videos (which is actually pretty good advice even if you're not disturbed). What disturbs me is the bad writing -- what year was this kid in? This reads like something a junior high student would write. There are two things that strike me about "Richard McBeef": the first is that the characters' actions all seem pretty random. There's not really any logical connection between stimulus and response. And the other is that the murdering, pedophilic stepfather is actually the most sympathetic character. In fact, we don't know that the stepfather did molest the kid, or that he killed the kid's father. We only have the kid's word on that, and he's clearly out to get the guy. So if a junior high kid were going to write an over-the-top, ham-handed satire about molestation hysteria, this might be what he'd come up with. Real weird. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2007-04-18 18:11 |