The Good Nurse Director Tobias Lindholm Explains How the Film Explores the Value of Humanity

Academynominated director Tobias Lindholm recently sat down with Colliders EditorinChief Steve Weintraub to discuss his latest Netflix film The Good Nurse. The tense truecrime drama, which is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Charles Graeber, is a sharp depiction of reallife nurse Charlie Cullens (Eddie Redmayne) numerous murders via lethal injections, and the relationship that was struck between him and fellow nurse Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain). With a script penned by Krysty WilsonCairns (Last Night in Soho), the film explores two polar opposite sides of mans ability to experience compassion, or a lack thereof. During his interview with Collider, Lindholm suggests that whatever motivated Charlie to enact these chilling murders was never his main focal point, but rather, it was about how the system allowed this to happen year after year. The Good Nurse is told through Amys point of view, and its Amy who ultimately brings Charlies crimes to light. The director also gives insi