Bonnie and Clyde - Victims of the System or "Evildoers"?

[Taverner]

[Taverner]

1. No comments ??

[old mark]

2. They were not like the movie, dude.....nt

[Taverner]

6. Not saying they were

But did you know their crime spree had a purpose?

The goal was to liberate all the prisoners from the prison where Clyde Barrow had been imprisoned

Apparently that place changed him, as prisons have been known to do

[Kat45]

8. Yes, I believe he had been sexually abused when he was in that prison.

I recently watched a Bonnie & Clyde TV movie that claimed to be the true story, so I did a lot of googling later to see what the true story actually was. Turns out that much of the stuff in the movie was for real, and some stuff about Bonnie & Clyde is not known for certain, with different people who knew them giving different stories.

[raccoon]

10. Amen...they were just a couple of slimeballs. nt

[stuntcat]

3. evil but

but they're super interesting anyway! I prefer the real people to the movie.

[suninvited]

4. I don't know about Bonnie being truly evil

I think she was just so wrapped up in Clyde, she would have done anything. In the end, I think she knew they were about to die, and she could have walked away, but she would have rather died with him than live without him.

[Taverner]

5. True

[CBGLuthier]

9. Actually she could not have walked away. She could not walk

There was a car crash and fire that left her unable to walk for about the last six months. Fortunately she was a very tiny woman so Clyde could carry her places.

I love the movie for what it is but those two and their cohorts were a bunch of freaky assholes. And the so-called concern for the common man was totally made up.

[Bucky]

11. You're saying she made a choice. Ergo "evildoer."

Choosing to be with her BF when he was robbing banks was choosing to rob banks. How can you skip over that moral imperative?

[dimbear]

7. No dichotomy. They were both.

I voted to try to bring the minority view into balance. Keep in mind the Latin proverb "necessitas caret lege" while judging them.


Now Ma Barker, well............