This movie based on the events behind the disappearance of two 14 year old North Hollywood girls will chill your bones. It is the type of movie that if you are a parent with a teenage girl who has a webcam- you need to see this movie. But, in the same breath it is the type of movie if you have a teen girl with a webcam you shouldn’t watch it.
It will be released on Tuesday and I am afraid that if you do watch it the images will stay with you a very long time. It shows pure evil, Internet predators and how the most popular, richest teens can be sucked into the dark spots of the Internet.
I’m blogging about to say I hope you watch it if if applies, and I am also hoping you don’t.
Ok on to a lighter note now, I received a phone call this morning from a gentelman who adopted five cats from me a few months ago. I let him have some of my core kitties; Riley, Charlie, Cole and Stryker because he wanted good mousers for his barn. Well, my kitties have captivated his heart to the point that they are now living in the heated garage that attaches to the house- it is a 20 acre ranch house in Salem. He spends a lot of time reading with the cats on his lap in the garage. I am so thrilled because although they are suited to be good mousers, they really did live inside more than outside here. His wife recently passed and I know these cats are companions to him and will help him in his grief.
It’s always nice to hear from the adopters and find out the positive side of these cats, because even though all applicants are screened carefully, you never know if you have made a mistake after you drive away.
While I was as horrified by this film as everyone else here apparently was, I wanted to point out that the undiscriminating internet contact with strangers was only part of the problem in the story depicted. Had Megan never gone off on her own to meet Josh in a secluded spot he never would have had a shot at kidnapping her. Likewise, if Amy had not been so foolish as to go to the isolated under-bridge spot she would never have given the psycho the opportunity to abduct her either. (Not that either of these things make the attacks any less the fault of the attacker, no blame can be ascribed to the girls, but a modicum of sense would have gone a long way.)
This is the only way in which I found the movie strained credulity: Amy was so worried about Megan going missing before anyone else but didn’t tell the police about Josh straight away? Having told them, they didn’t set up some kind of trace on her computer in case he got in touch? Once he did make contact — to threaten her, no less — she didn’t notify the police? And knowing what she knew, she roamed around on her own? And her parents LET her? Surely any normal parents — and hers were a thousand times better than Megan’s mom — would put their teenage daughters under house arrest once their friend disappeared? And especially once it came out that she [Amy] had also had contact with the likely kidnapper?
Other than that, great film. Christ it was horrible.