![]() Or else, maybe you’d say we all are born with a capacity for evil, and you handle it differently.”Įvil, as she pointed out in a contentious 2002 interview with Bill O’Reilly embedded in the film, is a religious concept, not a medical or scientific one. “You get a combination of factors, environmental and intrinsic, that create a very violent person,” Lewis said. “You realize that when you are talking with these people who have done some really extraordinarily violent acts, that there’s an environment that created that,” she told the Guardian. The film couples the evolution of Lewis’s research with her philosophical conclusions from years of examining murderous individuals: first and foremost, a belief against inherent evil. ![]() ![]() Lewis, now in her 80s, is petite, sprightly and measured on camera, she pores over old records with an unmitigated curiosity and residual anxiety over potential missed diagnoses from years before in a career credited with upending understandings of criminality in America, and in particular illustrating the confluence of factors – a “recipe for violence”, as she puts it – that make a killer.
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