I was really looking forward to watching this. I recently got a lot into documentaries, and I felt as if this one had something fascinating and unusual.
This was filmed with what we call a great "economie de moyens" : it is denuded of many, many effects that documentaries commonly overdue: breathtaking music, scenic shots, narration...Nothing here is meant to look better or worse then it is : everything is displayed in all its confusion, ugliness and nonsense. The directors worked hard to come out with a very objective movie. Although you understand that they are on Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley's "side", they do not try to moderate the other "side"'s pain and loss. If anything or anybody looks suspicious or even grotesque at some point of the movie, it is not because it was caused by the film makers :it just happened that way.
By reading reviews and comments over this movie, I realize that a lot of people unfortunately pick one side and speak badly about the other, as if there was good and evil in a debate like this one. Things are not that simple. It is absolutely understandable that after the murder of your children, you feel the desperate need to find someone to blame it on : the parents are not monsters for believing in the guilt of these three teenagers. And please, please try to see further than the end of your nose : most of the people that have interest in witchcraft do not practice it. A lot of murderers do not wear black and do not listen to metal music. A lot of non-murderers read Stephen King novels and wear Dimmu Borgir t-shirts.
This is an intelligent movie that deserves to be watched intelligently and respectfully.
This was filmed with what we call a great "economie de moyens" : it is denuded of many, many effects that documentaries commonly overdue: breathtaking music, scenic shots, narration...Nothing here is meant to look better or worse then it is : everything is displayed in all its confusion, ugliness and nonsense. The directors worked hard to come out with a very objective movie. Although you understand that they are on Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley's "side", they do not try to moderate the other "side"'s pain and loss. If anything or anybody looks suspicious or even grotesque at some point of the movie, it is not because it was caused by the film makers :it just happened that way.
By reading reviews and comments over this movie, I realize that a lot of people unfortunately pick one side and speak badly about the other, as if there was good and evil in a debate like this one. Things are not that simple. It is absolutely understandable that after the murder of your children, you feel the desperate need to find someone to blame it on : the parents are not monsters for believing in the guilt of these three teenagers. And please, please try to see further than the end of your nose : most of the people that have interest in witchcraft do not practice it. A lot of murderers do not wear black and do not listen to metal music. A lot of non-murderers read Stephen King novels and wear Dimmu Borgir t-shirts.
This is an intelligent movie that deserves to be watched intelligently and respectfully.