According to police reports and wikipedia, the Washington snipers made references to allah, the koran and islamic terrorism to justify killing innocent people. Yet this was not even referenced in the film. What a crap and inaccurate movie!!!
shareBecause the director chose to focus on the fatherly influences on the boy, and in addition, the allure of guns in American culture more generally.
Perhaps his obsessions with his ex-wife, and his kids, were what drove him most of all?
Perhaps religion wasn't the point of the crimes?
You are completely wrong. Do your research, they were heavy influenced by Islam, more specificically they were radical muslims.
shareFrom Wiki:
A series of trial exhibits suggested Malvo and Muhammad were motivated by an affinity for Islamist Jihad.[38]
Exhibit 65-006: A self-portrait of Malvo in the cross hairs of a gun scope shouting, "ALLAH AKBAR!" The word "SALAAM" scrawled vertically. A lyric from Bob Marley's Natural Mystic "Many more will have to suffer. Many more will have to die. Don't ask me why."
Exhibit 65-016: A portrait of Saddam Hussein with the words "INSHALLAH" and "The Protector," surrounded by rockets labeled "chem" and "nuk".
Exhibit 65-043: Father and son portrait of Malvo and Muhammad. "We will kill them all. Jihad."
Exhibit 65-056: A self-portrait of Malvo as sniper, lying in wait, with his rifle. "JIHAD" written in bold letters.
Exhibit 65-067: A suicide bomber labeled "Hamas" walking into a McDonald's restaurant. Another drawing of the Twin Towers burning captioned: "85 percent chance Zionists did this." More scrawls: "ALLAH AKBAR," "JIHAD," and "Islam will explode."
Exhibit 65-103: A lion accompanies chapter and verse from the Quran (Sura 2:190): "Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you and slay them wherever ye catch them."
Exhibit 65-109: Portrait of Osama bin Laden, captioned "Servant of Allah."
Exhibit 65-117: The White House drawn in crosshairs, surrounded by missiles, with a warning: "Sep. 11 we will ensure will look like a picnic to you" and "you will bleed to death little by little."
Exhibit 65-101: Malvo's thought for the day: "Islam the only true guidance, the way of peace."
At the 2006 trial of Muhammad, Malvo testified that the aim of the killing spree was to kidnap children for the purpose of extorting money from the government and to "set up a camp to train children how to terrorize cities",[39] with the ultimate goal being to "shut things down" across the United States.[40]
The writing is pretty much on the wall. I believe the director left this out perhaps from being overly PC and/or maybe afraid of any repercussions in offending Islam.
He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.