{"id":189180,"date":"2023-11-16T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=189180"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T17:58:50","slug":"shes-not-a-bad-person-honest-she-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=189180","title":{"rendered":"She’s not a bad person. Honest she isn’t: Kerry O’Malley in David Fincher’s The Killer<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“I guess I am begging.”<\/p>\n

My breath caught when my cousin Kerry O’Malley said this line in David Fincher’s The Killer<\/i>, now streaming on Netflix. Her face, her tone, her collapsed body language, was all so open and so desperate, and she knew it was useless to beg (she knew whose hands she was in), but she had to plead for her life. <\/p>\n

The whole sequence was heartbreaking and yet also fascinating on a psychological level. <\/p>\n

Who is this woman? She’s a nice lady living in a nice little house working in an office in her muted-colored Talbot’s clothes … and yet … <\/p>\n

“I’m not a bad person.” <\/p>\n

The second key line reading. <\/p>\n

The character’s whole life is in that line. Kerry didn’t put too much on it. She didn’t INSIST she wasn’t a bad person. She didn’t use the line to plead with him. By that point, she was beyond begging. When she says, “I’m not a bad person”, she is past even worrying about whether or not it is true. She herself knows it probably isn’t true. But she has spent her life justifying her actions. <\/p>\n

Through such people, horrors are made possible. The Eichmanns of the world. <\/p>\n

This is what Kerry brought to the role. <\/p>\n

So proud of her, especially since she’s been on strike for months and months, enduring financial hardship, etc. She deserves this success. Hers is the standout scene. <\/p>\n

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\n“I guess I am begging …”<\/p>\n

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