It has been a long time since the streaming decided that telling stories about real human monsters was worth all the money. Whether it was a documentary (the so-called true crime) or in series. Mega producer, writer and journalist Ryan Murphy noticed this appetite for horror and graphic violence and decided, from 2011, to start bringing the worst human versions of Americans with “American Horror Story”. Now followed, in the third chapter, Netflix’s “Monsters”.
There was Jeffrey Dahmer, who attracted his male victims and did a little of everything to them. The Menendez brothers, who killed their parents after being sexually and psychologically abused for too long. And now Ed Gein, a troubled man, ostracized by his mother, obsessed with the horrors of the Holocaust, who “had fun” desecrating corpses, “undressing” them and “wearing” their skin and who killed two women in the 1950s. He is the subject of conversation in the new episode of “No Último Episode”, where film and television critic José Paiva Capucho invited radio host Rita Camarneiro to understand if, nowadays, it still makes sense to consume this type of fiction.
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The answer is not easy to give nor was it possible to remain closed between just two people. For Rita Camarneiro, who has already created a podcast for AMC Crime, “Dominó”, about Portuguese criminals, there is only one bearable way to continue watching this type of content: “If we follow the stories of the victims and not of the abusers, criminals, psychopaths”.
In the case of Ed Gein, who has been criticized internationally for lacking any sense of morality — does he have to? — it is clear that Netflix’s production wanted to establish a cause-and-effect between his mother’s religious fanaticism and the consequences of that upbringing. Still, it is difficult to empathize with someone who was “enamored” by the horrors of the Holocaust and what Ilsa Koch did to Jewish corpses in World War II. “What we see in this series is really horrifying”, argues Rita Camarneiro.
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And in an increasingly violent world, with more war, and more shocking images, do series like this still serve their purpose of warning the world of our own evil? Alfred Hitchcock, who was inspired by Ed Gein to create Norman Bates in “Psycho”, believed that it was necessary to show this horror on the big screen. But now, fiction and reality are confused.
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