Natural Born Killing

The Killing of America (1982) di Sheldon Renan e Leonard Schrader è un'opera crudele, come crudele è stata la vita con le vittime e i carnefici suoi protagonisti. Essa ancora è un'ulteriore conferma della genialità del cinema di Leonard & Paul Schrader da The Yakuza (1974) a Naked Tango (1990), da (1976) Taxi Driver a Fist Reformed (2017).
America is the only industrialized nation with a higher murder rate than countries ravaged by civil wars, like Cambodia or Nicaragua. There is an attempted murder every 3 minutes and murder victim every 20 minutes. Japan, England and West Germany with a combined population equal to America have 6,000 murders a year and America has 27,000 a year. https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/killing-america/
Opening with a juxtaposition of real-life footage of a man being shot to death by law enforcement and the flowing stars of the American flag. https://www.thefilmagazine.com/the-killing-of-america-1981-review/
"The project really was conceived by Leonard Schrader. It was his vision. He started it and he finished it. He didn't happen to direct it, because he wasn’t a director at the time". Shldon Renan https://thequietus.com/articles/21395-killing-of-america-interview

Nella foto Leonard Schrader con il pruliomicida di Santa Crus Ed Kemper http://www.leonardschrader.com/

Leonard Schrader

1946 - 2006