Fewer Kilometers

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Why are people so obsessed with this movie?

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Most of us like or dislike this movie. Only one person is obsessed.

I watched this doc almost in reverse.

I walked in as my wife was watching the ending, which was so surreal, that I went back to see if the entire documentary was this odd.

Spoilers: Because I doubt that many will watch this.

It's broken up into three parts, with the first portion being about the actual Dateline series. I never watched the original because it seemed very formulaic. I guess the draw was to see how the different predators reacted? The Dateline focus was pretty by the book. They create a best-of reel, interview the prosecutors who were for it, and the prosecutors who were against it (some prosecutors damned the show for the TV "arrests" making the cases "unprosecutable"). They also go into the case where the suspect never went to the bait house and instead of one or two cops knocking on his door, they showed up with a ton of cops and a camera crew, tipping off the guy and resulting in his suicide in front of the cops. They show a lot of behind the scenes footage in an attempt to show the human side of the predators. You don't find out why the documentarian is doing this until the end of the show. They also interview the bait girls and bait boy. As you'd expect, it was a creepy job for a young actor to have. They have good to mixed feelings now, but I didn't see regret except for the guy whose predator killed himself.

The second portion is about the copycat "To Catch a Predator" YouTubers. Which is fricked up and sad, because there's no longer a law enforcement element and no rationalization that this is for anything but money and clicks. Guys luring predators into WalMarts so they can chase them and scream at them like it's a joke, another guy calling himself Skeet Hansen who does a Motel 6 version of Dateline, then tells the predator that he's calling the Sheriff on him. The second part drags out, then you get to the even weirder third part.

They end the show by interviewing Chris Hansen himself. Hansen has ended up as a YouTube version of his famous Dateline self. He's still catching predators, but the doc makes sure you see that he's lost his sheen. They get on him about his recent misstep where he caught an 18 year old high school senior agreeing to meet with a "15 year old Freshman/Sophomore" The judge agrees to purge everything if the 18 year old stays out of trouble, but the defendant isn't allowed around anyone 17 or under, so he has to leave school and is now a sex offender. Hanson is on camera noting that different states have different laws about 18 year olds dating 15 year olds, but goes ahead with the segment. He later pulls the segment from the internet, and says that eventually the kid's story will stop appearing on Google searches. On the other hand they go into how Hansen made his bones, before TCAP he flew to Asia to document human trafficking, and followed an American to his Asian home and busted him for bragging about his exploits. That was the first I'd seen of Hansen's early work.

It ends with the documentarian pressing Hansen in his interview, drawing it out, then revealing that he was abused as a child by a predator. He watched Hansen's show waiting to find out why the predators did it, but never got an answer from the series. You get longer and longer takes of the interviewer just sitting there, Hansen getting up and leaving, and remote cameras following Hansen as he leaves the building, like he's one of the predators from Dateline. Then the documentarian just sitting there, and sitting there... bizarre. I've seen documentarians turn the subject matter back to themselves, but never at this level.

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So what is the source of your accusation?

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He doesn't need a source. He's not looking for a valid discussion. He just wants to plant the seed in the hope that others will take his question and help it blossom into a rumor.

Like the people that are comparing Reiner to Polanski, or those fabricating allegations of Reiner celebrating the death of Kirk, they just want to piss on his grave and give others a rationalization to do the same.

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AI needs to get to work on perfecting Conway's voice and tone.

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Mark Hamill has retired his Joker voice and has stated that he will not do the character now that Kevin Conroy has passed.

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Brolin is pretty damn funny in the beginning doing his confession to the younger priest with his list of sins.....for the week

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Loved when the young priest is finally onto Brolin, and after hearing the older priest's confession he throws his purple stole vestment at him like, "here motherfricker, now it's MY turn to confess".

Entertainment sites are saying the son was arrested as the suspect and their daughter found the bodies. The son had a history of drug abuse and homelessness.

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Loved it.

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Same.

As with any good Columbo episode, the best part is the build up as you meet the characters. By the time Beignet Bond shows up, you're all worked up and raring to go.

I particularly liked Glen Close's Frau Blücher character.

Josh O'Connor was very impressive. He had to be so subdued and boring on The Crown.

Worth watching. Based on a true story so you know it can’t have a truly happy ending, but it ended well enough.

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To use your JFK example. Lee Harvey Oswald is dead so there's no way to link his consciousness or memories. So let's say some random Person X told his son that he was in Dallas that day working for the CIA and he was the real shooter. He completely lied and made that story up but his son believes him 100%. Person X died several years ago but his son is still alive and was absorbed into the hive mind. Does the hive mind now think Person X was the real assassin? Do they reconcile that crumb with others left behind?

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I think their answer would be, "The son of someone claiming to have been the real shooter thinks that is father was the assassin, but we do not have direct knowledge of what actually took place."

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Why only one season?

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Sunday nights they were up against FOX animation and X-Files, Monday nights against Who Wants to Be a Millionaire when it was huge.

You're talking about an hour long dramedy that wasn't really drama and not really comedy.

It's also when Tivo was just starting out and very few homes had DVRs. People were still time-shifting with VHS. No one knew about it until it aired in repeats on cable channels.

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What's Mulaney's beef then? Politics? Or is RFK just another old guy he wants to die?

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He's an easy target. RFK stands out even in a cabinet made up of ex-FOX News hosts and a wrestling promoter.