Why was he evil?
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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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fallen_anakin — 14 years ago(June 23, 2011 08:27 PM)
Exactly because it kind of means that there is no way to help him. There are children who are mean and disturbed because of abuse and traumatic events. But if they are reached young enough and get proper love and therapy they can change and be normal. On a talk show(maybe it was Oprah I don't know) there was an update of a little boy who had been on the show several years earlier. I actually don't know if the boy had been abused but he acted out angrily. Well in the update he was doing really good and I think graduated with honors or something. But with a kid like Henry how do you fix something that isn't broken. I mean how do you help a kid that has no reason to be that way. If you can't find the reason for something then it can't be helped or changed.
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Frosted-Flame — 14 years ago(July 25, 2011 10:05 AM)
I'm surprised no one has commented on this scene, either i'm being an utter dumbass for even considering this or I caught something no one else did.
In the film, Henry stated that he was once like Mark, "scared" until he realized he could do anything. It's a line that maybe means nothing or as part of manipulation by Henry, but i take it to mean something greater. Here's my theory (and this is only a theory):
Henry from a very very early age did have a psychiatric disorder, more of anxiety and in direct contrast to his current psychology was perhaps far too sensitive. He endured a trauma (lets say the death of someone he was close to him) that caused a psychotic break. Someone close to him died and his already overburdened sensitivity went into overload. Death of someone close to us is always hard but it nearly destroyed Henry. There was so much overload in his grief it destroyed a part of his soul as a way to cope. Get rid of the very thing that is killing you inside and you can live sorta thing and he experienced a psychotic break. And in that break he "discovered" nihilism and began to behave without the conscious that he had been burdened with so many years and was relieved and invigorated to be free from what crippled him. This leads to him doing things that he never would have done before he snapped as a reaffirmation (and perhaps to keep him from descending back into his old mind set).
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romainsimoni-1 — 14 years ago(September 03, 2011 01:43 PM)
I always had the impression that Henry wasn't seen as part of the family by his mother (yes I do think the father had little to no role in the issue). The prolonged grief she passed through made Henry see himself as unfit. There was no emotional attachment displayed by Henry nor by his mother. Keep in mind that it's only impression that led me to this conclusion, never any character actually explained or is shown in such manner that supports this conclusion, only what I hinted by Henry and his mother facial expressions.
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Radalan — 14 years ago(January 21, 2012 01:10 AM)
That's because there is no evil per se.
There are just people and their behavior and people with different level of morale that judge them.
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korro_dk — 14 years ago(February 25, 2012 12:58 AM)
I have a feeling that Henry was the way he was because he was consumed by jealousy, like revenge, it is a poison that can consume us, he was driven by resentment and jealousy of all the attention his parents were giving Richard. From Henry's point of view, Richard got in his way, he felt threatened and he let his resentment consume him. But resorting to murder especially of a young defensless toddler is unforgivable and Susan did what she felt was right in the end.
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