Sociological View of Murder by Numbers

The film I viewed is called Murder by Numbers. Two rich kids who plan and execute the murder of one random victim and watch the police fall for every one of their planted clues. Both boys, Justin and Richard, are kids with uninvolved parents, and are looking for a way to matter. Their motto is “…you haven’t fully lived life without experiencing crime…and only those who act on their crime are truly free.” Justin and Richard are in different crowds at school and base their planning around that. Justin and Richard are both white males from a family with money, who basically get away with everything they do. This movie definitely portrays the idea of upper class defeating the legal system more frequently. Because Richard’s father is the Governor of the town, he can afford a highly prestigious lawyer that will get him off for any sort of crime he may pull. Being rich is a great advantage to these boys because they aren’t even looked at as suspects at first. The first suspect i...