The documentary, Not Criminally Responsible, follows the story of Sean Clifton, a man suffering from psychosis, depression, OCD and schizophrenia, who stabbed Julie Bouvier, outside of a Walmart. Clifton claims that the devil told him to stab the ‘prettiest girl he saw’. Julie Bouvier was a young woman about to get married, who was walking into a Walmart one evening in 1999. Abruptly, and without explanation, Clifton charges towards her and begins to stab her, screaming gendered insults at her, and exclaiming that she should “die, b***h”. The gendered insults, and underlying hostility that Clifton harbours towards women, due to a prior relationship that had gone bad, can be examined through the lens of feminist theory, which critiques gender
