The Grim Sleeper Sociology

The film ¨Tales of the Grim Sleeper¨ was a documentary about a man, named Lonnie, that killed innocent girls for drinking and doing drugs. In the film a group of interviewers go to his hometown and interview people that he either tried to kill or the people who knew things about his life and why he would have done what he did. The people that are interviewed are very straightforward and don't hold anything back.
In the film there were many instances where the film was able to go along with many things we have learned in sociology. Throughout the film there were many forms of deviance, racial inequality, and corrupt justice systems. An example of deviance is when Lonnie decided to start stealing cars. People throughout the film said he was …show more content…
Some of them are narration, live action, background noise, subject interviews, ¨talking heads,¨ and there was historic footage. The mood and tone of the story was very scary, sad, depressing, and very honest. The story was scary because of all the stories about people getting murdered and also because of all the things that go on during the film; such as the people in the alley getting shot at. The story was sad and depressing because when the guy was talking to all of the mothers that lost their daughters. On the other hand the story was very honest and straightforward because of all the honest opinion the people were giving the …show more content…
I think they wanted people to be surprised only because of how people didn't think Lonnie had even committed the crime while there were others who knew he had committed the crime. Also I feel like the people were relieved because they finally knew some of the details about the story. The story made me feel relieved that he was put in jail and off the streets so he couldn't kill anyone else but at the same time, some of the details in my opinion don't really go together and made me wonder if his son did it and he covered for his