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Is it just me or are these people delusional? All smiles as if nothing has happened. Even the one cop had a stupid grin on his face. Grandma and grandpa should have been afraid. Nathon shows no remorse, there's no life in his eyes. No way in the world would I be visiting or forgiving. Mom dad wake up and face reality.

I'd estimate that roughly 60% of the film can be described thusly:

"Why did you do it?"

"I don't know why I did it."

"Why did he do it?"

"I don't know why he did it."

"Why did I do it?"

"I don't know why I did it."

The end.

What do you expect from a boy who grew up in a suburban American town with semi psychotic uncultured parents, who have guns under their beds? It is shocking. The parents come out as unstable as the boy in this documentary and he obviously had very little affection from them in his earlier years, thus the reason why he had temporarily lost it. I hope he will fully recover and move on with the rest of his life( away from his cold unkind parents).

There has got to be more to the story! What I really want to know is where is the daughter, not any mention of her. Seems a little weird to me! Idk

This is an excellent documentary that does what documentaries should do: documents the facts. Everyone watching it will interpret those facts according to their own worldview and their own culture.

The overarching question on everyone's mind is, WHY? It took me watching the film twice to have an idea. The movie only gives us a glimpse into the boy's life, and if this life was what I think it was, it's hard not to have sympathy for the guy. Parents had suffocating control over his life. No privacy, cameras watching your every move inside the house. Constant punishment for the slightest indiscretion. I got the feeling that the mom used the punishment system instead of hiring a housekeeper. I am sure the parents will say that they love their son and that they would give their lives for him. No matter. Life under that roof was torture. I suspect that he feels freer inside the prison than he did at home. I also would love to hear the daughter's opinion of what was going on in that house. To this day he refuses to say, why he did what he did. He is still under his parents' spell and under their control.

Other part of this household was love for hunting (the grandma is quick to put in a disclaimer: hunting is not murder; it's our way of life!) Well, if legalized killing of a living being that cannot put up a defense is your way of life.... There is a very short distance from murdering animals for fun to murdering humans for your freedom.

The documentary that never asks: should we have a full cabinet of various firearms unlocked in the house?

There is zero insight to this documentary. Just a documentation of how dumb and armed we are as a society.