YOUR FAVORITE PART

[Angela]

The part of the Documentary where the people who lived through the Lawson murders gave their account of what they remembered and thought about the murders seems to rate first place as to their "favorite part" of the Documentary according to the number of people who told us what they liked most in the film. More of the people I have talked to about how they first heard about the Lawson murders said they learned about it by hearing someone singing the Ballad Of The Lawson Murders. That's how I first learned about it as well. So did my Mom and my Son. The part that frightened me the most in the Documentary was when it showed 4 year old James hiding under the bed. He looked terrified as I'm sure the real James did in real life as he saw and heard everything his father did to his mother and sisters. The scene I liked the most was of Fannie Lawson played by Linda Lane where she was putting Carrie and Maybelle's coats on them. As they left the house Fannie/Linda Lane leaned over the stove looking as if her heart was breaking. She looked like she knew something really bad was about to happen. She looked so sad, so worried and so sick at heart.it was soooo real looking. I would love to know everyone else's favorite part in the film as well as which scene frightened you the most and which scene moved you or saddened you most.
Maria

[Angela]

The scariest part in my opinion was that one scene where Charlie Lawson cut his eyes around and looked straight at you. The one scene that made me cry was when he beat the baby to death. The actors and actresses did a bang up job.
Sissy

[Angela]

I'll have to think about which was my favorite part. As for the scariest part, for me it was two different scenes with the same theme. The childrens hand prints on the car window and the childrens faces at the window of the front door of their neighbor's house. I don't know why but the ghosts of children are always both really sad and scary for me.
Jackhammer

[Angela]

I visited my mother yesterday and we watched the Documentary together. She said it was good but really sad. She and my dad visited the house in the late sixties but she doesn't remember a front porch. My mother was six at the time of the murders and has heard about it all her life. She use to have a record of it sung by a man. She didn't remember who the singer was, just that it wasn't the one in DVD. I think what is really wonderful about the Documentary is the collection of people who remembers the murders and giving their account of how they remembered it.
Lera

[Angela]

I have a lot of favorites as the whole story is so intriguing to me. My favorite part though is the singing of the Ballad throughout the Documentary while at times it emphasizes the pictures and stories so much it made me cry. The pictures are unending to see and observe over and over...the house, so small, so cold, and so lonely once held the laughter and love of that family. The funeral scene where you brought Arthur up close enough so we could see him. I couldn't really see him in other pictures. The pictures of Arthur's wife and their children was the most wonderful surprise of all. Mostly my favorite part was viewing first hand Claude Lawson, Ruby Savage, Dorothy Montgomery, Gale James, Darrell Hampton, Raleigh Montgomery, and Fannie lawson's nephew Oakley Manring. Just seeing them on the big screen and hearing them talk about it all was my FAVORITE. Bless them all. The scariest part for me IIII bbbbeeliiiieve is the part where Maria, her son and her mother went to visit the grave. Matt was concerned about there being no leaves on Charlie Lawson's grave so he raked some leaves onto his grave, laid a stick on top of it but when they turned around a few seconds later the stick and the leaves were gone.
CPage

[Angela]

I liked everything in the Documentary. As a member of the Lawson family I have lived with this all my life and seen it all in my mind. When I saw the documentary it made it so real. It brought it to life for me. What those little younguns went through was so terrible. That was the saddest part for me.
Doug Boulding

[Angela]

The childrens terror bothered me too Doug. To see their very own father whom they loved and trusted raise a gun to kill them had to have been terrifying and confusing. I cannot conceive of anything that can ever justify what Charlie Lawson did.
Maria

[Angela]

I had to give some thought to what was my favorite part because I don't have a least favorite part. For me it started way before the film came out. From the time Matt first talked to me about making a Documentary on the Charlie Lawson family back in 2005 I had a good feeling about the whole thing. I didn't know Matt then, had never met him before but I thought he was really sincere in what he wanted to do with this project. Several times things would happen and I know they wondered how they would work it out and each time it fell right into place. I have prayed over things that have happened and I have told them over and over "this was meant to be" because of the way things turned out. When Maria would call and tell me who she had just been to see and when she got another new photo, another story it was just like clock work. i want Matt, Eric and Maria to know that working with them was wonderful. Then to sit back and watch the finished product has been like a mother watching her children grow up. It has been FUN FUN FUN.
Esther Johnson

[Angela]

Matt or Maria, has this documentary been submitted to a society or film festival of some type?
Holly

[Angela]

I really don't know if tey have or not or even if they plan on submitting it in th future. It's a good idea though!!!
Maria

[Angela]

I did want to get back and say what I liked most about the documentary. I loved the interviews but my very favorite was when the little boy who played Matt as a child went up the stairs, squeezed his eyes shut real tight, then turned like a flash nd ran back down the stairs. I just loved him. He was so cute and so good and the expression on his face was priceless. Maria, what was his name? Do you remmber?
Esther Johnson

[Angela]

I don't remember his last name but his first name was Brendan. He reminded me so much of Matthew when Matthew was his age!!!