Why do audiences want ‘bad guys’ to get away with crimes?

Jeffrey Manchester (Channing Tatum) is the charming villain at the heart of Roofman (R). In real life, Manchester robbed 45 McDonalds restaurants between 1998 and 2000. That’s what I said: 45. He was caught and imprisoned in 2000 but escaped four years later, taking on the identity of a government agent called John Zorn. He…