Thompson And Venables Have A Human Side? Right Oh!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6563663/Devastating-offensive-James-Bulgers-father-blasts-Oscar-tipped-film.html
This Lambe Geezer wants to have good hard look at himself.
Lambe: "Mr Lambe said: 'I have enormous sympathy for the Bulger family and when I think about what they've been through it breaks my heart.'" - so much so he's going to put them through the ringer again! lowlife.

[kvalidir]

but does that not make it even more understandable that people will make films about it Dave ( if indeed that's true)? Anything that has had a profound effect on society and attracts a lot of interest will obviously be a target for film makers. Going right the way back to the Lizzie Borden murders are probably beyond people were flogging Penny Dreadfuls on the back of it and making memorabilia, this has always gone on just in slightly different ways. Films are usually not made unless there is a public appetite for them and there is a lot of interest in the Bulger case, poor little lad :( x

[ChillDoubt]

It was just appalling - an order of magnitude worse than any other single act of evil in my lifetime
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Mary Bell was aged under 10 and she killed 2 youngsters aged 3 and 4, with no accomplice to be ‘egged on’ or encouraged/taunted by, as so often has happened with other child killers under the age of 15.

[ChillDoubt]

This to me is far worse:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/david-mcgreavy-child-killer-worcester-monster-prison-jail-release-parole-board-murder-a8667066.html%3famp

In the case of a Venables and Thompson it’s their ages and that of the victim that we can’t process, it’s simply incomprehensible and unfathomable beyond any vague reason.

[sunny-dave]

I was under the age where that had much impact on me CD - and I suspect my parents kept the news of it well away from my sister and me - easier to do in the 1960s.

[ChillDoubt]

At the risk of injecting humour in a very humourless thread I believe I’m younger than you SD!

[ChillDoubt]

Sadly, I do remember my parents discussing it.

Is AB playing up? I typed that sentence above into my last post but it didn’t show!

[Prudie]

I can't attempt to write the correct response for some. Making it is sick, watching it is sick, not consulting the parents first is unforgivable. Those two boys have already had state care and sympathy way more than they deserved.

[hereIam]

^ Ditto.

[Rockrose]

Do you feel that way about all the other documentaries that have been made about murder victims then Prudie?

[Rockrose]

Oh and hereiam

[gness]

Of course there have been other acts as vile as the murder of James. That doesn't make the self serving behaviour of Mr Lambe acceptable.

I can't know or feel but can only imagine what Mr and Mrs Bulger went through and must still be going through. That's enough for me to detest this man for making this film without having the balls to speak to them face to face.
As I said, that tells me all I need to know about him and his real purpose in making it.

[ummmm]

I think it's interesting if you're interested in psychology. It's the not getting the parents permission that sits uneasy with me.

We can learn so much when delving into someone else's life. What made them bad? Good parents have bad children, bad parents have good children, it's interesting to see the comparison. What did they do differently?

[Rockrose]

Well I shall watch it.

[gness]

Mr Bulger says that he has seen many documentaries about the murder of his son. He accepts that it is in the public domain. It's the way in which this was made without speaking to the family and that it is film sympathetic to the murders that is so upsetting.
I have two children. Had this happened to one of them I'd be bloody upset with Mr Lambe too!
And as for offering the proceeds of the film to The James Bulger Foundation......after saying he thinks that the film will be a difficult watch for the parents of James....the man is odd.

[Prudie]

Not particularly RR but I find this case truly evil, beyond the comprehension of humanity. They didn't kill him by accident or pranks gone wrong, it was twisted deliberate torture which I can see little value in the general public trying to understand.

[hereIam]

gness says it all at 15:18.

[ummmm]

Difficult one.

My daughter was only a toddler at the time. I read the news papers and had her wiping my eyes. That memory will never leave me.

[bodeker]

I was never able to read any reports in the newspapers when this awful thing happened and could never ever contemplate watching a film about it, events like this are heartbreaking and how the parents are able to sleep at night without having nightmares every time they shut their eyes is beyond me . Who would want to go and watch this ?

[jackthehat]

///It is made up of almost entirely of verbatim quotes from interview transcripts and shows 10-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson crying and asking for their parents as detectives quiz them over James's death.///

This documentary will not glamorise, glorify, excuse or otherwise justify what Venables and Thompson did.
It might just give a bit more insight into the minds of those dangerous boys.

[ummmm]

I think Thomson seems to have been reformed. Venebles shouldn't see the light of day again.