Why was he evil?
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kmbsk80 — 15 years ago(January 12, 2011 10:02 PM)
the scene in the shed with Henry and his mother where she finds the 'rubber duckie' - Henry says : "It was mine before it was his" shows that he's deeply jealous of his baby brother; and could be the 'inspiration' or motivation for his psychotic actions.
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fallen_anakin — 15 years ago(January 16, 2011 08:56 PM)
I doubt Henry had any real reason to be jealous of his little brother. By that I mean I doubt that his parents made him feel he was less special than his brother. I think because he was just mean he didn't like the idea of his brother taking any attention away from him. He wanted it all for himself. He did not really care about the rubber duck he just wanted to keep it away from her because it reminded him of his mom's love for Richard. He did not want her to have it because he knew the connection she would make with it(that she would think of Richard and how much she loved him). He felt the same jealousy about his sister and wanted her out of the way especially when Mark came around. Who knows why he had not already killed his sister a long time ago. Its hard to accept but basically Henry was a little bastard in this movie for no other reason than HE WAS JUST THAT WAY. In the novel of this there is a good scene where Susan is talking to the therapist. She was wondering and asking about the possibility of a child being born with something missing. What she means by this is missing a conscience. Also in the novel(because they can get into people's heads) Mark is wondering to himself about why Henry is the way he is. It was something like "Henry was lucky he had two parents that were alive and loved him. He should be grateful" Obviously in reality there are not many people like Henry(mean for no reason).
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jason005-1 — 15 years ago(January 25, 2011 04:06 PM)
I know the the OP said don't write he's just evil but I think that is the answer. No concience, brazen, no empathy, it's like he's a kid version of the terminator. He enjoy's people suffering, creating misery, bedeviling people, and being deplorable.
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fallen_anakin — 15 years ago(January 26, 2011 09:03 AM)
If you can stand seeing a black and white movie from the 1950's I would recommend finding one called The Bad Seed. The movie does not show her committing the murders on screen(unfortunately) but the girl in the movie is the female version of Henry. The idea behind it is that she lives in a nice family with all kinds of advantages but she is still a sociopath. In her case the inborn sociopathy is thought to be inherited. Maybe in Henry's case too he could have had some relative that was a psycho. Clearly his parents were not. Anyway I would check out The Bad Seed. However parts are slow but you can always skim forward to the good stuff.
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fallen_anakin — 15 years ago(January 30, 2011 06:51 PM)
I remembered something about this movie when it was on HBO. You know how when they are announcing a movie coming on in the next half hour or so they kind of give a description or tagline? I remember for The Good Son it was something like "you love and cook for him and he is still a sociopath". Thats probably not exactly what was said but similar. Anyway its kind of summing up that he is like a bad seed. Internally bad.
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les_margo — 15 years ago(February 05, 2011 06:49 PM)
Henry thinks in mind that he having fun and if you take notice he is smilling when commits an acts. Mr Caulkin the two young actors worked lot together on making. They made up there own stunts.Good job guys.
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fallen_anakin — 15 years ago(February 06, 2011 01:58 PM)
Henry is like a darker version of Kevin from Home Alone. While Kevin can pull off some good pranks he has no real evil intent. Henry is out to do intentional harm with his pranks. The only innoccent prank in The Good Son was when he leaned over the bannister with the mask on. But in the movie even that looks sinister because we know what Henry is really like.
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Cryshal — 14 years ago(July 09, 2011 12:20 AM)
He was a psychopath, without a conscience. He was born that way. No one knows how this can happen. Sometimes they live many years without anyone knowing, because they learn how to fit into society, and still get their way. They manipulate people to get what they want. They don't always kill someone. There has to be an extreme reason for murder.
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fallen_anakin — 14 years ago(September 16, 2011 07:40 PM)
Yep it was called The Good Son but I don't remember the author since it was a long time since I read it. Not sure if its available anywhere. You could try amazon.com
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ThoseLittleRabbits — 12 years ago(September 02, 2013 02:11 AM)
that's stupid. i think henry was jealous of his baby brother. his mother gave all his old toys to richard, and henry had nothing left to himself. yes he lived in a loving home, but that doesn't mean henry didn't feel special anymore. usually new borns get all of the attention, and henry didn't know how to cope with that. he wasn't the only boy anymore, hense why he didn't kill his sister when she was a baby, and also she's a girl, so she wouldn't have gotten henry's old stuff. plus after richard died, he still got all the attention, and all the mother could think about was the baby. what i don't get is why didn't she buy richard his own stuff? not excusing henry, but why didn't she let him keep the damn duck?
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fallen_anakin — 12 years ago(September 08, 2013 04:30 PM)
Other than the fact that Richard had Henry's old rubber ducky there is no indication that Richard got all of Henry's old stuff and or that Richard was favored over Henry. Its never stated or shown in the movie or the novel. I got the impression that while Susan may have held on to Richard after he died I am sure she still gave the other two kids plenty of attention and love. I get the impression that Henry was just a little beep brat to the point that at any time someone else got attention he got jealous. He even hated to see his mom show affection to Mark when he was watching her comfort Mark on the stairs. A normal kid would not feel that much jealousy. If the movie had sub plots to give Henry reason to feel hate and jealousy(like if he really was neglected and not given enough attention) then he would not have seemed so creepy and mean in this movie.
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ThoseLittleRabbits — 12 years ago(September 10, 2013 11:58 AM)
i thought it was well known that even if a parent shows love to all kids, a child will feel left out or abandoned when a new baby arrives. not all kids will act like henry though. and it's common sense that she would give most if not all his old baby things to henry. henry was just able to get to the duck. if the movie gave too much away, it wouldn't have been the same movie with the same feel. i like creepy henry. a movie shouldn't have to shove everything in our faces. i like movies that make you think
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Public-Enemy-01 — 14 years ago(November 13, 2011 09:23 AM)
the scene in the shed with Henry and his mother where she finds the 'rubber duckie' - Henry says : "It was mine before it was his" shows that he's deeply jealous of his baby brother; and could be the 'inspiration' or motivation for his psychotic actions.
I noticed that, i'm glad someone else did as well.
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syerov — 15 years ago(March 24, 2011 04:08 PM)
I was visiting my dad the other day, and he told me his neighbors had a problem with a kid they adopted. The kid's biological parents were a bunch of druggies and thieves, and even though the kid was adopted as an infant, he also started stealing stuff as he grew older. So I was really surprised to find out that the genes play such a huge role on a person's behavior. The same thing probably happened with the kid in this movie, he was just born evil.
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fallen_anakin — 15 years ago(March 27, 2011 01:29 PM)
I watched the end of the remake of The Hitcher a few days ago. And you know I could picture Henry growing up to be like that guy. The cop was asking him why he did all that stuff and he was like "well why not do it"? He was cruel and murdered just because he enjoyed it and that was how Henry was. He loved being cruel to animals and wanted his siblings out of the way(even though the parents loved all equally as far as we know) just because he didn't want to share anything with them. And even though I believe he had no true love for his mom and dad I think basically he would not have tried to kill his mom off so early were it not for the fact that she was on to him. Its not that he would have liked to keep her alive because he cared about her but she just was not on his immediate priority to get out of the way. I believe that if Mark had not come to visit Connie would have eventually been murdered soon and(assuming neither parent caught on to him) the parents much later as an adult when it came time for him to inherit the family's wealth. As a kid he still needed his parents for many functional things.
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