It's a true crime documentary drama about the former US marine and bodybuilder Sally McNeill. She meets her second husband Ray who also is a bodybuilder when they were both in the marines.
Ray turns out to be an abusive husband to Sally (raping, beating, choking) as well as an abusive and fearsome stepfather to her two young children (belting, yelling).
The narrative of the story does not get deep into the plot instead stays mostly at the surface. It asks simple questions about the events coming up to the point of the incident. From the audience's point of view, neither the persecution proved without a reasonable doubt that Sally premeditatedly killed her husband with intent nor the defense proved that Sally was a victim of abuse and she pulled the trigger in self-defense. Particularly, such became difficult to prove because, after shooting her husband once in the torso, she went to the bedroom to reload her weapon and came back to shoot him in the face for the 2nd time when he was laying on the floor.
Everyone was a victim of this crime including Ray, Sally, and her younger children. However, I would have wanted to see Sally's side better. More in-depth questions should be considered. Does going back to the bedroom to reload the weapon properly prove that Sally was guilty with intent? How about the mental and emotional state of a woman who has been abused for years? Because she also had been abusive, does that mean that she was not afraid of getting killed that night? This documentary barely skimmed over such questions.
Ray turns out to be an abusive husband to Sally (raping, beating, choking) as well as an abusive and fearsome stepfather to her two young children (belting, yelling).
The narrative of the story does not get deep into the plot instead stays mostly at the surface. It asks simple questions about the events coming up to the point of the incident. From the audience's point of view, neither the persecution proved without a reasonable doubt that Sally premeditatedly killed her husband with intent nor the defense proved that Sally was a victim of abuse and she pulled the trigger in self-defense. Particularly, such became difficult to prove because, after shooting her husband once in the torso, she went to the bedroom to reload her weapon and came back to shoot him in the face for the 2nd time when he was laying on the floor.
Everyone was a victim of this crime including Ray, Sally, and her younger children. However, I would have wanted to see Sally's side better. More in-depth questions should be considered. Does going back to the bedroom to reload the weapon properly prove that Sally was guilty with intent? How about the mental and emotional state of a woman who has been abused for years? Because she also had been abusive, does that mean that she was not afraid of getting killed that night? This documentary barely skimmed over such questions.