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3 pages in length. Brilliantly characterized by Billy Bob Thornton, Karl Childers' mild mental retardation sets his life on an unexpected - and undesirable - course straight to prison. The inability to decipher what he saw when he came upon his mother and her lover, Karl's thought process runs amuck and he ultimately kills them both, costing him twenty-five years of his life behind bars. He learns a great deal in these more than two dozen years that help to guide him once regaining his freedom, however, the extent to which he has the capacity to absorb the same complex thought processes as those without mental handicaps is limited, and this limitation affords him only a simple - if not realistic - perspective of what goes on around him. No bibliography.
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his mother and her lover, Karls thought process runs amuck and he ultimately kills them both, costing him twenty-five years of his life behind bars. He learns a great
deal in these more than two dozen years that help to guide him once regaining his freedom, however, the extent to which he has the capacity to absorb the same
complex thought processes as those without mental handicaps is limited, and this limitation affords him only a simple - if not realistic - perspective of what goes on around him.
Karls happenstance meeting with young Frank aligns him with someone to whom he can relate on a basic level, an alliance that appears to be the conduit between Karls ability
to ground himself and interact with others. Through Frank, Karl sees the world in a simple yet pained manner, inasmuch as Franks life is routinely invaded by the unabashed
and relentless emotional abuse churned out by his mothers boyfriend, Doyle. Despite Karls limited mental faculties, he nonetheless knows Doyle is a bad person and cannot understand why Franks
mother Linda would allow this man to treat them that way. His simplistic take on things draws concern for this woman and boy who have taken him into their
home, and he grows ever intolerant of Doyles inhumane behavior - the same behavior he endured himself as a child at the hands of fanatical parents. This is where
the audience begins to wonder if Karl - even after having twenty-five years to reconsider his own barbaric actions and realize his grave wrongdoing - would have the capacity to
kill again if he thought he were doing so to protect his friends. In Karls mind, killing is not necessarily a sin if it is done to protect another person,
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