As it’s the 88th anniversary of their demise, and the upcoming Bonnie and Clyde pageant close to the place they had been gunned down approaches, I’m reminded of our street journey by way of north Louisiana and our go to to the Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum.
Their day, and their lives, would finish on the receiving facet of over 150 bullets fired upon their automobile in beneath 16 seconds. Every of them could be hit so many occasions, the undertaker would have a tough time embalming the our bodies.
By the point the smoke cleared, their place in historical past as America’s unique “Journey or Die” couple, could be solidified for eternity.
However what’s it about their story that continues to captivate an viewers that hasn’t even been alive half so long as they’ve been useless?
Is it the Romeo & Juliet a part of their story? The one the place they each got here from nothing, and had been doing no matter they needed to as a result of it doesn’t matter what occurs, they nonetheless have one another?
Is it the Robinhood a part of their story? The one the place they grew up within the Nice Melancholy and would unfold the cash they stole across the city and the household?
Is it the Wild West a part of their story? The one the place it was simply the 2 of them, unstoppable, unbreakable, out on their very own driving off into the sundown?
On the time it had lots to do with a roll of movie the police discover and would later develop, giving the press latest photos to publish, of them in fancy garments being playful and smiling. The despair was the large concern of their day, and it didn’t matter to Bonnie and Clyde, you nearly had to envy them.
However, what’s it right now?
What makes a brand new technology of individuals fall in love with the story of two children turned younger adults, robbing mother and pop shops and being gunned down in an ambush?
Is that this lovely nation of ours cranking out hybristophiliacs by the hundreds? Hybristophilia is when somebody finds it pleasurable when their companion commits violent acts, it’s even referred to as Bonnie and Clyde syndrome. Although perhaps it ought to simply be referred to as Bonnie Syndrome as it’s normally seen in girls.
No matter it’s, there may be an simple attraction to Americas first killer couple, one which my Spouse and I share. A lot so, that we determined that the final get collectively we had in our sticks and bricks home, could be a Bonnie and Clyde theme social gathering, and our mates didn’t disappoint.
We even had mates fly in from out of state to be in attendance, and one other referred to as in a favor to ensure we had a 1930’s Ford within the driveway when their automobile couldn’t make it. To say we miss all of our mates again house could be an understatement, however that’s for an additional time.
You see, for me I feel it could be a mix of all of the elements of the story put collectively that pulls me in to the story of their lives. It’s nearly like being star struck, which is odd for me as I’d somewhat have a cup of espresso with a scientist than get an autograph from a sports activities star.
I feel the story clicks a swap in my mind, one which hasn’t been clicked in most of us for the reason that caveman days. In a bizarre approach, and I’m no neuroscientist, I feel Clydes kill or be killed way of life is hardwired into mens brains from beginning. Why else would so many people voluntarily make careers out of violent sports activities and aggressive behaviors, and what man doesn’t desire a Journey or Die chick by his facet?
And each time I watch a nature channel particular on pack animals, the narrator all the time says the females of the pack will mate with whoever wins this struggle, as a result of they’re now the brand new Alpha chief. Maybe Hybristophilia is solely a genetic maintain over from our caveman days, just like when my excessive upkeep canine who will get her hair and nails finished month-to-month, rolls round on useless bugs to odor like a hunter to the remainder of the pack, once we don’t even have one other canine.
Conserving with these two traces of thought, maybe Bonnie & Clyde Syndrome can solely exist in symbiosis. The Ying wants the Yang. With out Juliet, Romeo is nothing.
Perhaps that is the draw.
We’re all trying to discover the Ying to our Yang that matches up as completely as theirs did. A narrative of affection so robust that nobody questions it nearly 100 years later. Discovering somebody who you by no means should query if they are going to be by your facet by way of thick and skinny.
If in case you have the time, you must take the journey to Gibsland Louisiana, and go to the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum. When you are there you should definitely say hello to the Proprietor Perry, and chat with him for some time. He can assist you separate reality from fantasy, and fantasy from actuality, and should even make it easier to see that the grass isn’t all the time greener on the opposite facet, and perhaps…
Simply perhaps…
You already discovered the Ying to your Yang.
(Try our journey by way of Louisiana and to the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Website right here)