Law Abiding Citizen: Psychosis

In 1999, a home invasion occurs where two burglars break in and kill Clyde Shelton’s wife and daughter. A terrifying incident that happened simply by Shelton opening the door without checking for who was entering. He and his wife were tied down while being stabbed, and their daughter was taken away (we assume she is killed as well). Shelton seeks justice from prosecutor Nick Rice, but Rice is unable to find any evidence against the two robbers. Rice is a high ranked prosecutor with a high conviction rate. He wishes to keep his stats high by making a deal with one of the robbers, Clarence Darby, to a lesser charge if he testifies against his partner in crime, Rupert Ames. Shelton gains knowledge of this deal for Rice’s career and feels as if he is cheated by the law system and plots for revenge. Ten years later, one of the robbers, Ames, is being executed for another crime and is put to death by a toxic injection. Normally this type of execution is meant to be painless, but in this case the injections were tampered with and Ames experiences a traumatizing death. When the investigators try to find who would have done this, they first turn to Darby. Darby is about to be arrested by the police when Shelton calls him with a disguised voice leading him to an abandoned warehouse. Shelton, revealing himself paralyses Darby and kills him in his warehouse in the most vicious manner by dismembering him while recording it. When the investigators find Darby’s body they turn to Shelton. Shelton willingly gives himself over into custody, and tries to make a deal with Rice. He says that if Rice gives him what he wants, he will give him a real confession. All the while, investigators discover that Shelton owns a property near the prison with an u...

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...e methods of killing people.

In conclusion, Shelton did not find a way to vent out his emotional stress which caused him to develop psychosis from anger. This movie shows us how even in some cases of real life, stress can cause problems. These problems are not just physical, but also mental. In light of what has been discussed, we must find a way to exert all of our emotion safely, so that we may avoid any mental conditions and regretful actions later on in life.

Works Cited

PubMed Health:Psychosis. U.S. National Library of Medicine., Bethesda, MD, 2013. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. .

Works Cited

PubMed Health:Psychosis. U.S. National Library of Medicine., Bethesda, MD, 2013. Web. 22 Apr. 2014. .