Wolf Creek

True events that have occurred close to the home of someone who hears of those events makes one feel quite uneasy. That is the case with me, when I viewed Wolf Creek.

It is unsettling to hear about something rather random and vicious happen in my vicinity, my vicinity being any place within Australia. Though it happened near Queensland, it can happen anywhere, especially considering it happened in the outback and most of Australia is made up of the outback. I cannot fathom exactly why Ivan Milat, the 'backpack killer' who inspired the creation of Wolf Creek would want to kill anybody in the first place. How he can sleep, eat, drink, or keep a straight face in public goes far beyond my knowledge.

Though Wolf Creek was 'based' on true events, it certainly somewhat mimicked what the victims of Ivan Milat would have gone through - tortuous pain, ongoing suffering and constant fear, until death. What had motivated Ivan, though? Why did he kill over seven backpackers? The most interesting question, though, would be that why is it that each body was found face down, hands bound and covered with sticks and ferns making a pyramid shape? And why is it that he was released after having abducted two women prior to his serial killings? Could these murders have been avoided if he had been punished for those abductions?

I am still not comforted in the fact that Ivan Milat is in jail, serving seven life sentences. What is a jail to a criminal? A haven of safety? Meals provided daily, exercising equipment, the ability to roam within the barbed wires, freedom within boundaries. And now, he is in a maximum security prison due to being attacked by fellow inmates. He severed one of his fingers with a plastic knife, tried to commit suicide on various occasions by swallowing razorblades, staples and other metal objects, and had starved himself until he lost twenty-five kilograms in an attempt to protest to have a Playstation. 

Motive, though, motive is what attacks my thought process whenever I hear of a murder. Most murderers have motives, and when the motive is known, the crime can ease off minds of people at a faster rate than motives unknown, because unknown motives call for questioning. If a murderer's motive is known, it would be slightly easier to spot a possible killer, due to them having similar motives. Revealing one's motive also reveals a part of their psyche, a part that shows the general public what drives them, what steers them from being a member of the general public to a member of infamous serial killers. I am yet to find Ivan Milat's motives, and I think I will continue to be unsuccessful.

On the case of Wolf Creek, however, I am not too sure whether I should or should not watch the sequel. The first made me feel quite sick, and the second apparently has severed fake body parts that look so real that the police were called to the FX artist's home to investigate the bodies he had made.