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Me personally? Have lost alot of respect for Mr Roth, particularly in his need to attempt to add nostalgia into the production - but moreover than just, what could be described as subjective criticisms, I found that this documentary favored the "quality' of recreation of anecdotal evidence and the needless addition of tasteless gore, above the recounting of the crime in a factually clear, concise and correct manner. Often times we don't know who is speaking, or if/when it's revealed we have no understanding of any real connection or relevance to the victem or even the case. In addition to that, very important details or even critical details are revealed at times and in ways that are either too casual (ik that's a poor choice of verbiage) or simply too ambiguously and that unfortunate cause it makes for poor story telling ergo a poor documentary. Ultimately and in my opinion, Eli Roth seemed to value his own narration his highly produced recreations, above the subject matter and any reverence or respect for the many victims that surely rippled throughout the families friends and community.

And finally and i hesitate to even suggest this but does anyone actually believe that a child would subscribe to beliefs in the devil and contracts with demons, had he first not been indoctrinatated into Christianity? (I had written a ton more but this app blanked me and frankly I can't be bothered to re write something non if you will read anyway :( )

But here's the real deal, she saw and felt nothing but dollar signs and the cool liquid coinage of Scrooge McDuck - come now, as if your whole life wasn't adding up to this moment - at least YOU believed - one doesn't consider selling thier house to bankroll some stoner dreamscape, when they don't see a massive back end - ok ok ok, objectively re this documentary : didn't need to be told and not really a trainwreck, more like a failed happenstance and symptom of perils of social media - whatever.

Even as the victim of the 'not raped enough' horrifying RAPE, sits and tell us what a 'betrayal' and the 'disappointment' of the subjects using her accounts and relationship, to create a graphic novel of the moment of her abduction - and how hard it is for her to relive it and the dismay at having that be made public - AND IN THE SAME SCENE, THE SAME BREATH, THIS POS DOCUMENTARY SHOWS SAID GRAPHIC NOVEL PAGES AND RECOUNTS PRECISELY WHAT SHE'S LAMENTING and it's absolutely repugnant that, and of all people, the New Yorker's handywork is to further COMPOUND this victems anguish

AND FOR WHAT!?

To sell content to people like us, the entire time, regarding the reasons true crime exists and the very subject of The documentary and his motivations WHILE ALL ALONG this becomes some self fulfilling clusterpuck of a vicious circular catch 22

Its madness and we're all complicit in it - ALL OF US -

Let's do better, let's BE better

(for the record I gave it a 3 because how could I begrudge the 4th eye people after all of that hard and 'good' work)