(Alen Shore defends Kelly Noulan, a widow, for being accused of murdering her own husband. Her cold-bloodedness all throughout served as the main 'evidence' of the prosecution to put her behind bars. despite the police's and investigators' crossing out any other possibility for the killer except her, despite the absence of any
evidence to condemn her, and their plan to completely rely on their pre-conceived notion that she did it, which by common sense would be all lacking, inapproriate and unjust, it seemed that her call to 911, which showed no emotion of a woman just widowed by her man, was enough to end this case. her own testimony didn't elicit a single drop of tear from her own eyes. she remained cold as a still life. but as always, the ingenious Alen Shore comes to the rescue.)
Schadenfreude. From the german words schaden and freude. damage and joy. it means to take spiteful malicious delight in the misfortune of others. we used to dismiss this as simply an ugly side of human nature. but it's much, much more than that. recently, a stanford professor actually captured Schadenfreude on a brain scan. it's a physiological medical phenomenon.
when we see others fall, it sometimes causes a chemical to be released in the dorsal striatum of the brain, which actually causes us to feel pleasure. if you watch the news or read the papers, which of course you dont, because the judge said not to but if you did, you will see the undeniable delicious joy of the media and the public over kelly noulan's plight. i have no doubt that you want kelly noulan to be punished. she married for money. she had an affair. she carried on naked in the pool with her boyfriend. she's cold, materialistic, unlikable. and it might bring you all pleasure to see her go to jail. but as for evidence to establish that she committed a muder beyond all reasonable doubt, it just isn't there. the only possible route to a
guilty verdict here is Schadenfreude.
Brilliant. Just plain brilliant.
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