Directed by: Felicity Morris
Streaming on Netflix.
Streaming on Netflix.
Spoilers Ahead.
It's a film about a scamster. It's structured in a way that we too see the scam unfold from the perspective of the victims. So the film starts with the victims narrating every event from the beginning. About how they get a match of a guy on Tinder, and about how he takes them to ridiculously expensive first dates, about how sweet and too good to be true he is. And then he slowly gains trust, and later cheats them with a lot of money. And he keeps rotating the cycle, he spends the money he made on the previous girl, on this girl, so on and so forth. And he has done this with so many women. It's a simple crime story. But somehow Netflix manages to make it seem like an interesting watch. I'm curious to know the behind-the-scenes process of such true-crime documentaries. Majorly as to how they manage to create a tone - and about the aesthetics that are kept in mind while making calls which would effect the tone of the film.
Although sometimes, I do wonder, if these docs can't have a more casual tone to them. Because in order to hook us to the core, probably a story that doesn't need as much drama - is also made to seem "interesting". Are we losing out on the truth? I'm curious to see how a true crime, subliminal, documentary would unfold. Like the pacing of a Jim Jarmusch film, but it's about a riveting serial killer. You hold at him after he is done speaking too. Something like that. It could be boring. I'm just curious.
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