In the history of human cinema, there are many movies that have had an impact many years after their release, and some have even formed their own subcultures, such as "Wolf Warrior", "Let the Bullets Fly", "Room" and so on. But if there is one of the most influential films in film history, it is important to understand the 1976 feature film "Taxi Driver" made by Martin Scorsese.
In terms of the butterfly effect, the film's influence can reach infinity.
Because among the countless audiences of this epic movie, there is a man named John. Sinkley's men, inspired by the plot after watching the film, decided to kill the president of the United States.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > spirit guy</h1>
John Sinkley Jr. was born in 1955 to a merchant family in Oklahoma. His father, John Sr. Sinkley is a World War II veteran who ran an oil company with a shrewd mind after the war, a huge family, a lot of contacts with the top political and business circles in the United States, and is also one of the financiers of the Bush family.
It is said that Sinkley, who was born in such a family, is definitely a high-quality human male. If someone else's child is at the starting line, he belongs to the kind of person who has a school district house behind the finish line. However, with such a rich family lineage, Sinkley lived quite in the shadows, and the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games was full of yang qi compared with him.
In elementary and junior high school, Sinkley was a normal child, introverted but still normal, and also liked to exercise. But after high school, he began to become extremely autistic, non-associative, and addicted to literature and music. After graduating from high school, John Sr. coaxed him to enroll in a school, and Sinkley studied at school for a year. Unable to stay in school, he came to Los Angeles and wanted to break through the world with his composing ability in Hollywood.
Then he fell to the ground.
Although many people who are engaged in art think that they are geniuses, reality will not tolerate them. Sinkley hit a wall everywhere in Los Angeles, and his level of composition was really Xu Kun ringing the doorbell - the dish arrived home. The only thing he meant when he wrote songs was to waste a piece of paper. In order to stay in Los Angeles, he constantly lied to his family, saying that he was negotiating cooperation with people, falling in love with female celebrities, and so on, and using various excuses to trick his family into paying him.
In this way, he spent a year in Los Angeles, and the scam finally could not continue. Old John personally went to Los Angeles to expose his lies, and he directly arrested him back home, thinking that you have been out for two years now, really naked and grinding - you are a shame to go around in circles, hurry home and reflect on it.
Hinckley, who was captured and returned home, stayed at home for a few years, and being an otaku in the 70s was a painful thing, when there was neither an internet nor a game, and John, who really couldn't pass the time, had to pick up a hobby - watching movies. He watched movies at home in black and white, especially liked the taxi driver, which he watched fifteen times.
"Taxi Driver" is a masterpiece in American movies, he uses a pioneering approach to tell the loneliness and indifference of people in modern big cities, and the later "Joker" has a lot of references for him. The general plot of this movie is a lonely but still righteous taxi driver who fails to court, tries to assassinate a corrupt presidential candidate, and finally destroys an adulterous nest, and after killing people, not only is not tried, but is regarded as the hero who saves the prostitute.
Sinkley, who had watched the film 15 times, was not interested in the social significance behind the film, but instead in the part of the prostitute. He has a crazy crush on Judy Foster, who plays the young prostitute in it. At that time, Judy Foster was only 14 years old, but Sinkley felt that this was his own goddess, the true love that the poor would pursue all his life, and from then on, he did not think about tea and dinner, and watched all of Judy Foster's movies at least dozens of times, and his state was getting worse and worse, probably similar to the state in which Jerry chased Wang Xifeng in the dream of the Red Chamber.
After squatting at home for a few years, old John finally couldn't bear it, he couldn't afford it, he really couldn't watch his son become a waste. Old John and his wife took Sinkley to see a psychiatrist to see what serious illness this son had, and everyone staying at home was about to sprout, so why not think about what to do?
Under the doctor's inquiry, Sinkley also took the initiative to confess - I like Judy Foster. The doctor did not take it too seriously, like female stars This is very normal, dick silk is obscene, who does not care how many female stars are called wives when they are young? The doctor gave his own judgment after asking - this child is not seriously ill, that is, salt is sprinkled in the crotch - idle (salty) egg pain, lack of life goals, find something to do.
So john the elder had a showdown with Sinkley—what do you want to do, what do you have to do, you can't stay like this anymore.
Unexpectedly, Sinkley actually came up with an idea: I was going to Yale University and read literature.
It is naturally a good thing to be able to think of taking the initiative to go to school. Old John was very happy, going to Yale University was difficult for ordinary people to ascend to the sky, but old John was the old United States with a star-spangled banner, and this little thing could be done. In the early fall of 1980, Zinkley, a street wanderer, officially enrolled in Yale University.
What John Sr. didn't know was that Sinkley offered to go to school not because he had an epiphany, but because in the same year, Judy Foster decided to suspend her acting career and go to Yale University for further study.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the path of star chasing</h1>
John Sinkley, who entered Yale, naturally became Judy Foster's tail-line idiot, but he did not dare to harass people in person, but every day he held back to write his own earthy love poems to others, and then threw them directly through the cracks in the door, thinking about it felt terrible.
In addition to writing poetry, he also tried to send flowers, make phone calls, etc., and the result was naturally a stone sinking into the sea, and such behavior as him was too common in the eyes of stars, it was really a toad pretending to be a little frog, looking ugly to play with flowers.
Hinkley was so depressed that he called his parents again to ask to drop out of school and go home to recuperate.
However, after the failure of star chasing, he also began to reflect on himself, but not on his life, but on where he was worse? Why did Judy Foster ignore himself.
What he didn't know was that the gender he should change the most! Judy Foster is gay, she doesn't like men at all!
But unbeknownst to Sinkley at the time, he began to reflect on himself, and he felt that money and his family were undoubtedly not lacking. Looks, you can also say that you are beginning to take human form, so where is the difference between yourself?
Thinking about it, he felt that he was almost famous.
Want to chase the stars, get famous.
However, his brain circuitry is very clear, he thinks that in order to attract the attention of Judy Foster, as long as he is famous, as to whether it is a good name or a bad name, it is a matter of indifference. According to his conditions, the probability of flowing for a hundred lifetimes is not large, and the smell of ten thousand years can be beaten.
He started out thinking about robbing a bank, but he remembered Al Pacino's 1975 film Hot Afternoon, and he felt that robbing a bank wouldn't work. Later, he considered hijacking passenger planes or warships, but felt that the threshold was also slightly higher. Finally, after revisiting Taxi Driver, Sinkley burst into inspiration, I know what the threshold is low, I assassinate the president!
Assassinate the president, the most famous! It was so big that Judy Foster couldn't hide from it.
When it comes to doing it, Sinkley really has the ability to execute. The president of the United States at the time was Carter, and Sinkley bought a pistol and began to carry the pistol and followed Carter from state to state, but Carter's defense was very tight, and Sinkley did not get a chance to do it. Instead, he was detained by airport security for a few days because of his hidden pistol, and he could only call old John to support him off the field, and old John went to Tennessee to fish out his son.
Sinkley, who was fished home, still continued the street life of idleness before, continued to travel east and west, was rejected by the goddess, and assassinated the president, he was in a very low mood, using an ancient Tang Dynasty poem to describe it as bashan Chushui desolate, responsibility. By March 1981, John Sr. finally couldn't stand it anymore, and he was determined not to let this waste chew on the old man for the rest of his life, kick him out of the house, and let him make a living for himself.
To be sure, what Old John did was what a normal father would have done. He gave Sinkley a lot of money before leaving, and told him, Son, it is really because you are too out of tune, and if you can have a little skill, you will not have no skill at all. As long as you can repent and live a normal life, your family property will still be indispensable in the future.
But what John Sr. didn't expect was that, though he was worried, it didn't play any role here in Sinkley. Sinclimus, who came out of the house, returned to New York to continue harassing Judy Foster, and later ran to Washington, D.C., to choose gifts for the goddess. On March 29, 1981, while reading the newspaper in the morning, Sinkley, Washington, he found a message that interested him:
Newspapers say that on March 30, the newly appointed president, Mei Lingzong Reagan, will speak at the Hilton Hotel.
Sinkley had a flash of inspiration when he saw the news, and the idea that had been silent for a long time returned. At this time, Reagan had just been in office for more than sixty days, and he thought that he had assassinated the president in order to become famous anyway, and it was really an insignificant thing to kill Carter or Reagan, since he had caught up with such an opportunity, why not kill Reagan?
On the morning of March 30, 1981, Sinkley came to the door of the Washington Hilton Hotel, armed with a newly purchased PG14 revolver and loaded with a more powerful flowering bomb, ambushing Reagan here, ready to surprise Mei Lingzong.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > assassination</h1>
Ronald Reagan, the most important U.S. president of the Cold War.
Reagan, who came from the actor, was the most important leader in the United States to win the Cold War, and he was not highly educated, even stronger than Trump, and those who came into contact with Reagan said that the president was astonishingly ignorant of politics and history.
Although the culture is not good, Reagan is very large, and he knows who to believe in and who to appoint in what field. In his hands, the United States turned to its previous policy of appeasement toward the Soviet Union, but turned to a comprehensive anti-Soviet policy. Before Reagan, American politics generally regarded the Soviet Union as a thousand-year-old empire that would always coexist with the United States and compete for a long time, resulting in a policy of détente with the Soviet Union. But the Reagan administration, perceiving the fatal flaws of the mud-footed giant of the Soviet Union, changed the perception that it was possible to completely crush the Soviet Union. The Reagan administration's strike on the Soviet Union was an epic operation that was decisive for the American victory in the Cold War.
However, the Assassin Sinkley was completely unconcerned about this, and he killed Reagan only to become famous.
In fact, some things are indeed predestined. A few days before the assassination, Reagan took his wife to an event at the Ford Theater in The District of Columbia, the theater where Lincoln was assassinated. Reagan later said, "I looked up at the box where Lincoln had been killed that night, and suddenly I had a very strange feeling... I feel like while we have the protection of the Secret Service now, if anyone really has enough determination, he can still approach a president and shoot him. ”
A few days later, his Flag came true.
At 1:30 p.m. on March 30, the Reagan motorcade arrived at the Hilton Hotel's entrance. By this time Sinkley had been in ambush for half a day, the arrow was on the string, and had to be fired. Then Reagan entered the hotel and nothing happened.
The reason why Sinkley did not shoot is that the Hilton Hotel has built a fully enclosed safety passage because of the perennial reception of the president, and after the general presidential car stops, the place where the president gets off is three or four meters away from the passage, and the president almost disappears after getting off the car, so Sinkley did not catch the opportunity at all.
Supposedly, this thing blew. However, after a lifetime of indifference, he came back with patience. He bravely waited patiently for Reagan to finish the event, and then succeeded when Reagan left the hotel.
Let's look back at this historical scene:
Although the picture of the assassination is only between electric light and flint, the whole process is less than two seconds, but this assassination is really a very coincidental.
According to the custom, the presidential car should be three or four meters away from the safety corridor, but because there were too many people that day, the convoy parked the car a little farther away, so that the car was nine meters away from the safety channel, which gave Sinkley a window of time.
Originally, according to the custom, the president should wear body armor when he went out, but Reagan did not wear it, and he felt that these few steps were a matter of seconds and unnecessary.
More coincidentally, among the onlookers that day was an Associated Press reporter, McButtzell, who shouted "Mr president" in the crowd, the reporter had a loud voice, Reagan subconsciously stopped and turned his head to look at him, Sinkley seized the opportunity, and immediately pulled out his pistol and fired six shots at Reagan.
The first shot hit White House spokesman James Brady in the head, paralyzing Brady for life, and the second shot hit D.C. police officer Thomas Brady. Drahan's neck was injured by a spinal injury, and the officer has since disabled his left hand. The third shot was empty and the fourth shot hit Tim, the bodyguard who was protecting the president. McCarthy, piercing his lungs and liver, struck the glass of the bulletproof car with a fifth shot, and the sixth shot, which hit the car's bulletproof armor and bounced off, hitting the president's lungs, less than three centimeters from Reagan's heart.
In fact, if it weren't for Reagan's bodyguard Jerry Parr reacting quickly and pushing Reagan into the car in time, Reagan would probably have died.
On the other hand, fortunately, the assassination took place in the Reagan era, and if it had been a few years earlier, the outcome might have been completely different.
On September 6, 1975, Midai Zonfort was assassinated in front of a hotel in San Francisco, and the killer shot at the president, but did not hit him. The first reaction of the bodyguards who heard the gunshots was to immediately lift the president up and throw him into the car, but several people went to carry the president, but none of them went to open the car door, which eventually caused Ford to be hit by a few big men with strong structures and slammed into the car with the closed door, and the bullets did not kill the president, and these few critics almost killed the president.
Since then, the Secret Service has set the rules that the president must always keep the car open, which is why Reagan was able to enter the car at the first time.
Sinkley fired the six shots in just 1.7 seconds, and after firing the sixth, Secret Service Agent Dennis McCarthy quickly rushed over and threw John to the ground. And with all his strength he pressed him to the ground, partly to control him, on the other hand, to protect him from being destroyed, and in order to do this, he had to "attack two citizens who came to help."
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > trial</h1>
The news of Reagan's assassination quickly spread across the globe at the speed of light, and there was an uproar in the United States, the most shocking of which was John Sr.
He never arrived first, and his uncontrolled son had achieved nothing in his life, and he had suddenly run into such a great disaster!
But at this point John the Elder couldn't care less about who to blame, and as a father, he had only one thought at this time—I had saved my son.
In the United States, assassinating the president is the number one crime in Tianzi, and it is not surprising that you will be sentenced to three or five hundred years at will. The Assassins I mentioned earlier who assassinated Ford, although they did not hit anyone, ended up squatting in prison for more than thirty years. Sinkley committed such a heinous disaster, this life is basically an account.
In an ordinary family, Sinclair committed such a heinous disaster, this life is basically an account.
In an ordinary family, this situation must be to close your eyes and wait for death, but old John is different, people have the ability to pay money.
Over the next few days, John Sr. exhausted all the resources of his life to defend his son. The level of family lobbying was so high that it even reached Vice President George H.W. Bush. In order to save his son, John Sr. organized a team of top lawyers comparable to the later "Simpson Wife Murder Case", and invited Edward Lee to join him. Williams and Center. Fuller and other top litigants, oh no, lawyers.
How luxurious is his lineup of lawyers? Edward Williams, the leader of the series, has served many big clients and how many big cases, you just need to know that he was one of the most relied lawyers at Disney that year.
How much good can so many legal bigwigs get together for Sinkley? It turns out that the big guy shot is indeed the old fairy fart, extraordinary. People don't even fight for commutation of sentences, but directly strive for acquittal!
The reason given by the legal team is that John F. Kennedy Jr. Sinkley was mentally ill, and he assassinated the president because he was ill.
The lawyers' team was emboldened by the fact that John Sinkley Jr. had no motives, that he had no political stance, and that the only motive given was to attract Judy Foster, which was clearly not a carbon-based biotech reason, the only explanation being that he was a psychopath.
Moreover, the legal team enlisted Dr. Hopper, one of america's top psychiatrists, who had taken out a full archive of the medical records of Sinkley's treatment with him for many years, and he believed that Sinkley was in a psychotic attack in the few minutes after the shooting, and without the ability to act, naturally it could not be considered a crime.
The shamelessness of the legal team made the US prosecutor laugh, and they said, since you know that Sinkley is mentally ill, why did you let him out and not be treated at home? Dr. Hopper said that because Sinkley was just depressed at the time, there was no danger. But depression can become very violent.
The prosecution realized that he had been led away by the legal team, and if they continued to talk, they would confirm that Sinkley was ill. So they had to find someone to give Sinkley a firm mental condition, and the psychiatrist they found made a generous statement in court after the appraisal, spewing out the arguments of the legal team, saying that you are talking nonsense, saying that Sinkley has depression is completely farting! People are obviously narcissists!
The prosecution was dumbfounded, and now they were completely trapped. The two doctors' industry rolls thoroughly confirmed that Sinkley was mentally ill. They have a natural disadvantage in this matter, because for the law, it is generally a presumption of innocence, and for psychiatrists, they generally make a presumption of guilt. So after seven weeks of lengthy evidence and three days of jury deliberations, the legal team successfully proved that John Hinckley suffered from a mental illness, a mental illness that could occur at any time, without warning, and was extremely violent, but did not have the same mental illness as a normal person.
On June 21, 1982, the court handed down a verdict that John Sinkley was acquitted in court for mental illness and incapacity.
In court, old John the Elder burst into tears, blaming himself for not taking good care of his son, letting him run into such a catastrophe, and expressing his willingness to suffer on behalf of his son. But even in his final statement, John Hinckley remained unrepentant, claiming that he had done it all for Judy Foster, the greatest love sacrifice in the world, and was unusually disappointed that Judy Foster had not responded. However, these words of his were all ignored as crazy words of the mentally ill.
In fact, John Sinkley did make Judy Foster remember him forever. According to people at the time, after Sinkley announced his motives, journalists from all over the United States rushed into Yale University like a "cavalry charge" to interview Judy Foster. Judy Foster was so disgusted with this madness that she adamantly refused to answer any questions about him, and when any reporter mentioned Sinkley's name, Judy would immediately turn around and walk away to refuse.
After the news of Sinkley's acquittal was announced, there was an uproar in the United States, and everyone had never thought that they could be exonerated by mental illness, let alone this kind of major crime of stabbing the king to kill the driver. U.S. states urgently changed their laws after the verdict was handed down to avoid being emulated by Hinckley.
However, the biggest bitter bearer in this matter, the US government has not yet expressed its position.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > exoneration? </h1>
Although the assassination did not cost Reagan's life, Reagan returned to normal a few days after being rescued, and went to toss Hoonjong in a hurry. But the assassination seriously injured four people and paralyzed a senior official for life, so if the bad result allows the criminals to go unpunished, where will the U.S. government's face be shelved?
After Sinkley was acquitted, he was surrounded by a group of white coats before he even left the courtroom and went home? Homecoming? Aren't you psychotic, you need treatment.
The lawyers were collectively confused, and they exhausted the human language talent in order to prove that Sinkley's mental illness could erupt at any time without warning, and after listening to their sophistry, even a pig of conscience would be ashamed of the tea and dinner. But they did not take care of an important issue, such a disease can hardly be falsified, and no one can prove that such a disease can be cured.
Since Sinkley's mental illness could be extremely dangerous, according to the legal team, he naturally needed to be isolated. And because his illness is usually completely normal, no one can prove that he is not sick.
Faced with the white coats surrounding them, the lawyers could only ask, which hospital are you?
The doctors said: We are from St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital.
This TM is not as good as squatting in prison!
St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital is famous in the United States, how ferocious is this hospital? They have a cemetery on the left and right of their hospital, buried all the patients in their own hospital, providing one-stop services for patients from birth to death for more than a hundred years. The hospital has a collection of 1,400 brain specimens and 100,000 brain tissue slices, all of which are patients in their own hospitals.
Note that this hospital has only treated 120,000 patients in total, and it can be basically concluded that as long as you enter this hospital, it is unlikely that you will be mixed up with a whole body.
For many years, the U.S. government and the medical community have done various human experiments on patients in this hospital, such as eye socket bleeding, frontal lobar resection, vomiting agents, and so on. In short, this hospital is basically equivalent to the base camp of urban legends, the location of horror novels, and hell is so harmonious compared to it.
Sinkley was scared to pee on the spot when he heard that he was going to be locked up here, but this time the lawyer couldn't save him. He committed suicide four times over the next three years, but failed. In 1987, he applied for family visits, and before the judge could approve them, a group of FBI stormed into the ward and found a picture of Judy Foster in his room. Sick is not good, then crouch!
In this way, Sinkley was held until 2016, when he had been locked up for 35 years, and at the age of 61, he was finally judged to be no threat and could be discharged from the hospital. However, his requirements outside the hospital are extremely strict and cumbersome, and although he is discharged from the hospital, he is still not a free person, and he cannot even reply to others online, and the scope of action is also strictly restricted. At this time, his father, who had been running for him all his life, had already died, and the injured and finally President Brady and Reagan had already been in the past, and the past was no longer mentioned.
However, if there is any special significance to this assassination, there are actually some.
According to Reagan, the catastrophe made him more convinced that he was the chosen one, that God had chosen him to save the United States and defeat the Soviet Union.
This hint was not only on Reagan, but also on Jerry Parr, the bodyguard who pushed him into the car, who was determined to join the Secret Service because he had watched a movie called "The Secret Service Code." The film starred Reagan, who believed that God had sent him to save Reagan, so he later retired as a pastor.
What if Sinkley could have played a little more accurately? Maybe he managed to kill Reagan, then maybe the U.S. policy in the eighties would change, maybe the direction of the Cold War would be rewritten, and the Soviet Union would most likely still lose the Cold War, but would the Soviet Union disintegrate in 1991? That would be hard to say.
So, the person sinkley hurts the most is you Di Xun Zong!