The Killing of John Lennon is a chilling
insight into the mind of Mark David Chapman, the 25 year old
narcissist who gunned down John Lennon outside his Dakota
apartment in New York in 1980. Meticulously researched and
filmed on actual locations where events occurred it is a
gritty and imagistic examination of a celebrity stalker’s
mind leading up to the kill - and his descent into madness
and exorcism.
Independently financed and filmed over three
years in Hawaii, Decatur Georgia and New York it is
unflinching in its presentation of the truth. It does not
set out to condone or exonerate the shooting death of Lennon
or his killer’s desire for fame. Its theme of bomb-ticking
loneliness and, by extension, the notion that America is a
nation of angry strangers who vent paranoid resentment
toward public figures couldn’t be more resonant today.
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