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1)One of the reasons the author gives for the lack of success of many of the child murders found in cinema is based on a few things one being so graphic dramatization of the child murders. I notice in both films Nightmare on Elm Street and 'M' (1931) were such a wide success because we do not see graphic dramatization of the murders of the children in the films. I also believe that children murder in cinema has such a lack of success because seeing the rate, butchering and the killing of young girls or delinquent boys is emotionally unappealing to the viewer.

2) The two films I have sampled that I have chose from the reading is Lovely Bones and darkness falls. In Lovely Bones, a young girl named Susie is murdered by a man named George Harvey. Just as in the movie 'M' we do not see Susie actually being murdered but we see symbolism of her murder when we see Harvey wiping off blood and mud off himself in his bathroom. Harvey is never actually caught for Susie's murder but we can save the universe punished him when he accidentally died at the end. In 'M' we also do not see the actual murder of the young girl but we see her balloon floating away into the telephone wire symbolizing her death. In 'M' we do see the murderer punished as well but not by the universe but by the citizens of the town. In contrast, in the Lovely Bones we see the family of the victim Susie getting closure at the end but in 'M' we see no evidence of the victim's mothers receiving any sort closure for the death of their children. 

Darkness Falls is the quiet opposite to me. This movie is more of a horror movie. It is an unrealistic movie that can not be identified with anything realistic like in lovely bones and 'M'. The widow was hung to death for the assumed murder of two towns children. She did not even kill the children because after her death the children were found. She comes back to haunt young children but her spirit is killed by a huge light source (the town lighthouse ). In all three movies we see the villain being punished for their crimes but we never actually see the villain murdering its victims but each movie shows symbolism that the young children were murdered.