Reginald Harkema explores the never ending debate of good versus bad in the film, Leslie My Name is Evil. The film story line centers around the Charles Manson Family, and Perry who comes from a right wing conservative, god fearing family who is selected to be a jury member for the Manson trial. Perry does not want to become enlisted to serve his county in Vietnam, the “right thing to do” according to his father, is happy he is selected to serve on the jury, another means for escaping the war. Perry becomes increasingly infatuated with Leslie one of Charlie’s girls on trial. 
Reginald’s casting for the film is frightening in regards to the actresses and their close resemblance to the characters they are based on. Leslie was a model student, and homecoming princess prior to her crossing with sex, drugs, and cult involvement. The girls are referred to as Charlie's girls in the film. We equate Charlie's girls as "Charlie's Angels," oddly enough who are trying to get the bad guys. We see the many things that are considered wrong by society in this film but when you watch this film it makes you question who was right?
The perspective used by Harkema in this film makes the viewer really re-examine the case through a new lens. Is War right? Abortion? The Death Penalty? Premarital Sex? Gay Marriage? Many questions that to this day we have no “right” answer too. What is right or wrong really depends on whose hand the decision lies in. We are only right or wrong based on our own individual beliefs. It can be equated to the saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Snag a quick peak at the trailer before catching the screening of Leslie My Name is Evil 7:00pm tonight at the Globe Theatre.
