A"Moulinyan" is an Italo-American word for "eggplant". It's used in this movie as a derogatory term for black people. The Italian word for "eggplant" is actually "melanzana"
QHow was the Son of Sam finally caught?
APretty much the way the film showed it. On the evening of one of his shootings, a witness saw Berkowitz loitering in the neighborhood and noticed a parking ticket on his yellow Ford Galaxie that had been parked too close to a fire hydrant. She reported the incident two days after the shooting. Police were able to trace his ticket and, about a week later on 10 August, 1977, they decided to question Berkowitz, thinking that he might be a witness to the shooting. When they inspected his car parked outside his apartment, they noticed a rifle in the backseat. They also found a dufflebag holding ammunition, maps of the crime scenes, and a letter threatening further murders. When Berkowitz emerged from the apartment building just before 10:00 PM, he was carrying a .44 Bulldog in a paper sack. His first words, like in the movie, were reported to be, "You got me. What took you so long?"
QIf David Berkowitz was the "son" of Sam, who was Sam?
ABerkowitz had a twisted fantasy life and was diagnosed by several forensic psychiatrists as paranoid schizophrenic. He was particularly terrified of big, black, barking dogs that he felt were demons giving him instructions to kill. At one point in 1967, Berkowitz rented a room from Jack and Nann Cassara, and they remembered that David had been unusually bothered by their dog. When they got a strange letter from a couple named Sam and Francis Carr, whom they had never met, the Cassaras and the Carrs got together and, after comparing notes, found that the Carrs' black Laborador Harvey had recently been shot and killed, along with another German shepherd in their neighborhood. They wondered whether this might have been the handiwork of David Berkowitz and took their suspicions to the police, but there was no followup. When Berkowitz was finally caught ten years later, and the police were able to piece together David's story based on the facts and on his confessions, it appeared that Berkowitz had imagined an elaborate satanic cult whose members included the Cassaras and the Carrs, among others. In his fantasy, David thought that Sam Carr was possessed by a demon named "Sam" who ordered him to kill. Thus, David thought of himself as the "son" of Sam.
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