If you have never seen the Billy Bob Thornton movie “Slingblade”, please see it. If you have, a hypothetical question…..

After the murder of Doyle, what did the mother of Frank and Frank think about what happened?

Would Frank’s mother be happy she is rid of Doyle or would she think that since Doyle is dead, there goes the support he could have provided for her? The character seemed liked a good friend caught in an abusive situation she might have wanted to escape from. But if she didn’t, she could have blamed her son Frank for bringing Carl into their lives to kill Doyle. Not to mention that their home is now a “murder house”. That maybe that people in the town might think they the mother conspired for this to happen in the first place. It’s a small town and everyone will know about it.

What was Frank to think? That killing someone who causes you problems is an option? What message does that send? Especially if the mother blames Frank in childhood for the murder indirectly? That instead of freeing Frank, it made Frank a darker person, that killing someone who gets in his way and happiness is acceptable?

Would the mother and Frank even visit Carl in the mental hospital? Probably not? Even if it was a positive outcome for them both, Carl was still a killer, a convenient one but still one.

For fans of the film, your thought of any?

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