Rating : IIB
Duration : 100 mins
Synopsis :
The film's portrayal of Graham Young is not wholly true to life, and thus, the film is not truly biographical. Nonetheless, the main truths about him are conveyed. He was a poisoner, a murderer, a genius and a thoroughly amoral man.
Early scenes show Young as a child preoccupied with the macabre. In his teen years, he actually poisons a schoolmate ? sickening him rather than killing him ? in order to date a girl his schoolmate was seeing. His conversation with his date involved vivid, graphic descriptions of deadly car accidents.
He also reads a comic book account of an event in which the Dutch Resistance killed a whole German army camp in the occupied Netherlands during the Second World War by poisoning their water supply with thallium... ...
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