# An American Crime (film): I don't think I could watch it

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**Created:** [December 22, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-american-crime-film-i-dont-think-i-could-watch-it/430903 "2007-12-22T04:11:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-american-crime-film-i-dont-think-i-could-watch-it/430903/21 "2007-12-25T09:37:44Z")

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I occasionally go for a true-crimes/serial-killer fix. I’d see any movie about Ed Gein, maybe even one about Albert Fish, but THIS is beyond me. I can’t even fully watch SYBIL.

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-american-crime-film-i-dont-think-i-could-watch-it/430903/22 "2007-12-25T18:42:52Z")

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> [@Indygrrl](#):
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> Perhaps I was too harsh in saying they should be ashamed for it.

That’s all I’m saying. Thanks.

FTR, I don’t think I can watch it, myself.

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**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-american-crime-film-i-dont-think-i-could-watch-it/430903/23 "2007-12-25T18:58:45Z")

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[QUOTE=delphica]  
It probably doesn’t help that the Crime Library article was so weirdly and poorly written.  
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From the article:

“Later, Mrs. Wright. and John forced the girl to eat shit and drink urine.”

Eat shit? I can’t believe such an unprofessionally-written article was allowed to be on that site. Don’t they have editors?

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**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-american-crime-film-i-dont-think-i-could-watch-it/430903/24 "2007-12-25T19:23:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Argent Towers]  
From the article:

“Later, Mrs. Wright. and John forced the girl to eat shit and drink urine.”

Eat shit? I can’t believe such an unprofessionally-written article was allowed to be on that site. Don’t they have editors?  
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_Shit_ is a perfectly good English word. It’s used here in its literal sense, not as slang. As editor, I would have left it alone. Would expressing the same word in Latin sound better to you?

Oh, wait, I see there’s an extraneous period. Is that what you meant? Yeah, I’d delete that, but that’s basic proofing, not really editing.

ETA: Just got back from seeing _Juno_, in which Ellen Page is great and seems very natural. Don’t really want to see her as a helpless girl whose life ends in weeks of nightmarish brutality.

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