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I Watched The Day Of the Jackal and Sympathised With the Assassin
Is there something wrong with me
The Day of the Jackal is a British spy thriller television series, based on the Frederick Forsyth novel of the same name. Eddie Redmayne is the Jackal, an internationally renowned assassin who utilises a variety of disguises and aliases. He did a masterful job of acting and is up for some awards as a result.
**Spoiler Alert**
The Jackal is an evil man by every measure. He has no regard for human life at all. People are a means to an end and anyone who gets in the way of a mission is summarily ended.
In one case, he perpetrated a gay man to become a lover of a worker at a theatre where his mark was going to speak. He wasn’t gay but he had sex with the man to keep up with the pretence. You can guess what happened to the man.
In another case, he convinced two elderly campers to drive him to the hospital. He needed to escape the authorities and their camper being driven by two seniors seemed like a good idea. It might have worked had granny not harmlessly stabbed him. Grandpa tried to fight him off as he knew what was coming. He failed.
