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From: Miss Marple
Date: 6/14/03
Time: 1:53:42 PM
Remote Name: 24.80.69.157
Jasper,
What struck me the most about the movie was how fuhrman portrayed himself. This is how the man wants us to see him. Here he has the perfect opportunity to rehabilitate himself, show himself with the American boyscout type image that he had right after the prelim testimony.
Instead he paints a picture of himself as an arrogant bully. The way he walked into that bar, looking like a cowboy, separating himself from the suit and tie people, doing that cowboy greeting from the door. He didn't say "howdy", but it was close enough. If his real mission had been to try and solve the case, he sure screwed up that first night, alienating all the people he said knew what happened. Fuhrman likes that character, he is proud of himself. And he hates everybody else, except Mrs. Moxley. Whenever he talks to her he wears suit and tie. Remember the conversation where she says she wants an independent expert to review the autopsy report. Fuhrman turns to his little helper (whos job description is "to correct fuhrman's grammar) and says "I thought that was who I was" or something. Allways full of himself.
The woman with the cigarette holder and the anti freeze, forget her name, what did she do in the movie. She didn't contribute to the solving of the crime, and just popped up every once in a while for fuhrman to be extremely rued to, to hate. Is she fuhrman's mother?
You mentioned the guy in the dark blue knit cap sitting in the probation officer's office. There were so many associations to the Bundy murders that I haven't yet started thinking about movie connections. Motive, for instence. He describes Michael's growing jealusy that explodes into a murdering rage when he sees Martha and Thomas kiss. He said the same thing about O.J. Then the hit from behind to her head that rendered her unconscious, then a cut to her throat that killed her. It was deja vue all over again.
Lots and lots of little details from the Bundy murders all over the place. Did you notice the police officer who walked in the blood on the crime scene. There's a close up on his boots and if they weren't Bruno Maglis, they were the closest thing to it.
My favourite is the dream sequence where he puts himself in the middle of the crime scene kneeling down beside the victim. He doesn't point, but his position is exactly like the one in the pointing picture.
Fuhrman constantly refers to the Bundy murders, which to me means that he absolutely doesn't want anybody to forget his role in it. That is his claim to fame, the "genocidal rasist" comment and all. He want's to keep that image of himself alive. He enjoys the notoriety, and he is proud of himself. He is shallow, has absolutely no imagination but he doesn't know it. He had the chance to paint a self portrait to show the world, and he did it his way.
Miss Marple