A partially handicapped man named Karl is released from a mental hospital, several years after murdering his mother and another person. Karl is often questioned if he will ever kill again, and he shrugs in response saying there is no reason to. Now out of the mental institution, Karl settles in his old, small hometown, occupying himself by fixing motors. After meeting a young boy named Frank who befriends him, Karl is invited to stay at Frank's house with his mother Linda- who views Karl as a strange but kind and generous man. However, Linda's abusive boyfriend Doyle, sees things differently ... in the way rules ought to be run- normally insulting Linda's homosexual friend Vaughan as well as Karl's disabilities, and having wild parties with his friends. As Karl's relation with Frank grows, he is ever so watchful of Doyle's cruel actions.
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One of the most stunning movies you will ever see
?Sling Blade? is an emotional roller coaster of a film which establishes Billy Bob Thornton as one the best actors, writers, and directors around toady. ?Sling Blade? revolves around the story of the mentally handicapped Karl Childers, who is committed to a mental hospital at the age of twelve for double murder of his mother and her lover, and on release his attempt as an adult to make it in the outside world. Upon his release Childers is given a mechanics job fixing lawn mower engines and befriends a young boy, his widowed mother, and her gay best friend. Unfortunately, the mother's drunken, violent boyfriend cannot accept Karl getting in the way of his relationship, and sets out to mak...
Powerful and Moving
You almost seem to know where this film is going - there is just the inexorable pull towards an end you sincerely hope doesn't take place. Billy Bob Thornton's character is just so sympathetic and tragic (an utterly brilliant performance), you just want to shout out - 'give the guy a chance - take the evil out of this world and maybe this man can prosper'. Beautifully and darkly compelling.
Sling Blade
Developed from the short Some Call It a Sling Blade, this stately and shockingly moving drama brought debutant director Billy Bob Thornton to international attention. In addition to winning an Oscar for his screenplay, he also drew a best actor nomination for his mesmerising performance as hesitant, seemingly harmless handyman Karl Childers. It's a case of Norman Bates meeting Tennessee Williams in a sleepy Deep South hollow as Childers befriends a lonely boy on being released from the secure hospital where he'd been held for 25 years after murdering his mother and her beau. This is darkly comic, superbly acted and utterly compelling.
Billy Bob Thornton once claimed he came up with the idea for Sling Blade while staring at himself in the mirror. Fortunately, the result is far from the vanity project one might expect from an actor-writer making his directorial debut. Adapted by Thornton from an earlier short, Sling Blade is a sophisticated, sensitive and increasingly moving portrait of a retarded man attempting to come to terms with a horrific past, only to see the past repeat itself.
Opening with a simple monologue delivered straight to camera, the film tells the story of Karl Childers. Committed as a child to a psychiatric institution for murdering his mother and her lover, now he's deemed r...
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