Appropriate Adult Part 1

First-rate film!
Just as I despair of ever again putting my mind to a film which is anything other than hopelessly derivative, all of a sudden up pops a film which made me sit straight in my chair for two hours without budging. The film, as it turns out, is a British made-for-TV movie which premiered in England in September of 2011.

"Appropriate Adult" recounts the true story of Frederick and Rosemary West, husband and wife serial killers from Gloucester, England, who tortured and killed at least eleven girls and young women between the late 1960's - 1980's.

I am not a fan of fiction as a rule, and even less so of murder mysteries. They have never been able to hold my interest. Real life stories do possess a little more appeal, but I am, at this age, averse to viewing any more explicit gore, car chases, and endless police procedures and courtroom melodrama. In real life I listen to my better half recite stories from her daily grind in the criminal justice system -- and it is...

Too 'nice', Dominic West too sexy, but still compelling
I can vaguely remember the headlines in the 1990s about what was found in Gloucester, and have to admit that this series spurred me to learn more. Psychopathic would not even begin to describe what went on the the Cromwell Road house while the Wests lived there. I don't think that their story should be glamorized. Dominic West is a superb actor, and very charismatic and sexy. Fred West was mentally at a level far below what Dominic West portrays, and had his own 'trademark' tendencies which helped the police know which killings he was involved with. He and his wife were sexual sadists in their own home. Apparently he also made videotapes of himself committing horrendous acts, even on his own children. None of this is mentioned in this series.
We feel sympathy for him in the movie, which I feel is inappropriate if you look at the materials that finally led to his arrest. Even wild animals do not usually sexually prey upon their own children and in most cases do not murder...



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