Sling Blade (DVD, 1998)

This is the best movie I'd seen in a long time and I watch it over and over again.

This is a great story of a mentally challenged man who only looks to do the right things for people. I was emotionally connected to the character and felt my emotions poor out for him. THis is easily Thornton's best role and best movie every. It's too bad he couldnt' continue to act in more roles like this.

I highly recommend this movie for people who enjoy great story-telling and who want to have their emotions tapped by the movies they watch.

OUTSTANDING!!

This movie introduced me to the genius that is Billy Bob Thornton. I have watched it over & over. You find yourself in the mind of a mentally challenged man who only knows the right thing to do. He doesn't butt in until he has to, then he has no qualms about doing what needs to be done to make things right again for the boy and his mother who took him in in spite of his past. A good companion to this is the short film Some Folks Call it a Slinge Blade.

BillyBob shows his great talent, in this movie. He makes a mentally chanllenged person a hero, and give great insight to anothers world.

This by far is the best work that Billy Bob Thornton has ever produced in his career. He is so good at becoming this lowsome but indearing character, that you truely forget it is Billy Bob. Now that is acting at its best. And lets not forget the natural acting abilities of Lucas Black....he is also one of a kind in this movie, and in most things he does. Great work guys!

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its a long time movie me and my husband have been wonting and just decide to go online and find it - and their it was - so we got it

The item came very quickly and was in very good condition when it arrived. I was very satsified. i would order from this seller again.

"Sling Blade" is actually based on a short film that Billy Bob Thornton wrote in 1993 called "And Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade", which starred himself as Karl Childers , a retarded man being released from a mental institution where he has been incarcerated for twenty-five years for a murder committed when he was a child. In this short film, Karl Childers is interviewed by a high school reporter (played by Molly Ringwald) about his release, and Karl begins a long monologue about the murder of his mother and her lover at his hands, with a sling blade.

'Cuz I wuz sittin' out there in the shed one evenin' not doin' too much o' nothin', just starin' at the walls waitin' for my momma to come out an' give me my bible lesson... yeah. I heard a commotion up in the house... so I run on the screened in porch to see what's goin' on. I looked in the window theres and saw my mother lyin' on the floor without any clothes on. I seen Jesse Dixon layin' on top o' her... he was havin' his way with her. Well, I just seen red. I picked up a kaiser blade sittin' by the screen door, some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade. It's got a long handle kinda like an axe handle. With a long blade, shaped, like a bananer. Sharp on one edge and dull on the other. It's what the highway boys use to cut down weeds and whatnot. Well, I was there in the house and hit Jesse Dixon upside the head with it, knocked him off my mother. Well, I reckon that it didn't quite satisfy me, so I hit him again with the sharp edge and blown near cut his head off, keeled him. My mother jumped up and she hollered, "What'd you kill Jesse for? What'd you kill Jesse for?" Well, gone to find out I don't reckon my mother didn't mind what Jesse was doin' to her. I reckon that made me madder than what Jesse made me. So I taken the kaiser blade, some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade, and I hit my mother upside the head with it. Keeled her.
"Sling Blade" begins with the exact same sequence as ASFCIASB, and then follows Karl out into the real world. Though SB has often been compared to "Forrest Gump", when we first hear Karl speak about the murder, instead of friendly and soft-spoken manner of Mr. Gump, we hear Karl's gruff voice, see his expressionless face with perhaps a glimmer of evil under the surface, and see his habit of rubbing his hands together as he speaks. As he speaks about hacking his mother and her lover to death, the moody lighting and his didactic recitation demonizes Karl, and it is hard to determine if he is sincere about being reformed.

I reckon I'm gonna have to get used to lookin' at purdy people.
Guess you do.
I reckon I'm gonna have to get used to them lookin' at me too.
Karl is then released, and he boards a bus to his home town. After wandering around for most of the day, he befriends a boy at the laundromat, Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black), and helps him carry his laundry home. He gets a job at a local garage, taking like a duck to water fixing small engines, and lives in the back room.

Don't you have anybody?
No, sir. Never did know too much o' nobody down there. Not that be helpin' me out no way.
Look Karl, the truth is I don't know where they expect you to go or what they expect you to do. If it was up to me, you can come back and stay if you wanted to. I'm just tryin' to do my job. You follow me?
A few days later, he meets Frank again, and meets his mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday). Sensing that Frank fee

I bought this movie for my son in Iraq. We have watched it several times,it is a story of right and wrong. Right and wrong can sometimes be seen so clearly in people that are mentally challenged and therefore more innocent.

Billy Bob Thorton plays a fantastic part in this movie. This is one of my favorite movies of all times. It just keeps you spellbound.

This movie was good from start to finish. I highly recommend it to anyone. Especially those who just like good people willing to help anyone, no matter what they look like or their background. Very touching story.

i received it in a relatively short delay, it is was i expected and the price is fairly reasonable, i once rented that movie and wanted to have it in my collection of dvd to watch it again when i wanted. The subject of the movie was very interesting, not yo mention the acting by Billy Bob Thornton that i consider exceptional. The creation and rendering of his character is really great.

I like this movie because it did not fit the regular hollywood movie cookie cutter mold. It was written by Billy Bob Thorton which also had the leading role in the movie. I think he did an outstanding acting job. It has a spiritual message with some unexspected twist.

One of the best of Billy Bob. He was great in this movie.I have seen a lot of his movies but I like this one best.

I saw this movie when it first come out. The hole family loved it. It is funny and also shows the kid how it is important not to make fun of others,a you should be friend with everyone.

People mistakenly think this is a horror flick... Not so! Drama, tear jerker!!!
You won't be dissapointed, especially if your a Billt Bob Thornton fan. One of his best roles!!!!!!!

To Tell You the truth I couldn't find it any where else for the price I was willing tro pay:)So that is why I'm am putting in this reveiw that I was pleased with my purchase. I liked it.