I Love You, Now Die is a fascinating look at morality, technology, and mental health, and is sure to have you hooked.
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To fail in this role is "criminal" and so if a man is a victim of his emotions, it's because the emotional caretaker, a woman, did not live up to her "duty." They are deemed "witches" and the term "bewitched" means "under control." This perception is a dark and insidious twisting of the already problematic perception that women must always bear the role of nurturer and caretaker, and always reducing them to wife and mother. Both Roy and Carter were on anti-depressant medication, but where are their psychiatrists in all of this? Roy's parents say they just assumed Carter was a regular girlfriend (Carter and her parents declined to be interviewed for the documentary), but if he's a minor, why is Carter responsible but not them? Or why aren't Carter's parents responsible for their daughter? The burden appears to lie with Carter because her actions were apparently malignant rather than simply negligent, but this in turn reveals even greater failings on the part of our society.Īs the documentary wisely points out, we have a long tradition of blaming women, especially when it comes to the mental illnesses of others.
When you start pulling back you see a system of failures. Carter needed the love and adoration that felt in tune with the popular media she consumed like The Fault in Our Stars and Glee. Roy needed an audience for his suicidal tendencies. The immediate tragedy is that these two mentally ill teenagers found each other and fed each other's worse impulses. When you look the case holistically, you can only see layers upon layers of tragedy. If you're not careful, she or women like her will get you to kill yourself via text message as well.īut when you start spending time with the case and talking to people who have looked through not just the text messages but spoken to Carter's associates and examined her social media presence, a more nuanced and difficult portrait emerges. Directed by Erin Lee Carr (Mommy Dead and Dearest, Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop) this two-part documentary about the texting suicide case tha. Now there's a narrative, and it's one our society clings too far too often and too quickly: it was the evil woman who used her powers of seduction and coercion to get an innocent young man to kill himself. If we blame Carter and can point to text messages where she encouraged Conrad to commit suicide, then she is to blame and justice can be served. The texts with Carter offer an avenue of blame. He was young with his whole life ahead of him and a family that loved him. Conrad Roy III is dead and he shouldn't be.
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