What I want my words to do to you?

The movie “What I want my words to do to you” makes me fill sorry for those women, as their stories are really sad. One of the stories got stuck in my head, and that was the story in exercise # 1 Keila Palinito (I think that was the girl’s name). She killed the guy who had raped her three days ago. When she asked him “why you did that terrible thing to me?” he laughed at her. Then, he threatened her to rape her again and put a knife to her neck. After that, she could not explain how, but we have realized that she shot him with a gun. That story like the rest of the movie was just one version of what supposedly happened. She was under twenty-one years of age. How did she get the gun? This is the question that made me think about the story again. Then I started to realize that there must have been a reason that they were in prison. I considered the option that the stories we heard were just one version of what might have happened. But who were the victims? First of all, we weren’t present at their court hearings. We didn’t see how the involved parties acted. Neither did we hear what they said in front of the judge. Did they say “I am sorry”? Besides, it is easier to confess in front of people who are likely to be sympathetic. Those people didn’t judge the crimes committed by others, and everything was a part of a process of therapy. Perhaps, it is bad to say so, but I would like to say that for some of them confessing was just another way of making the time pass away faster. Last but not least, I could say that “this is what those women should tell in front of a camera”. Why are we supposed to believe them? They are after all a bunch of convicted killers. Yes, they are people with feelings, but I feel sorrier for the victims’ families than for the convicts.