In fact, the protagonist Robert Durst is not a rich second generation, his family has been rich for many generations. As the most famous real estate tycoon family in the history of New York, Robert Durst is the eldest son of the family and should inherit the family business and run all the business, but he has no interest in all of it since he was a child.
Seeing his mother jump to his death from a balcony at the age of seven, Robert grew up alienated, lonely, and at odds with the family atmosphere that had to be socially enthusiastic. He was the elusive and neglected child of the wealthy family.
As an adult, he married, returned to work in the family business, and lived a life as peaceful as a pool of stagnant water. No one knew what kind of betrayal he was planning in the depths of his seemingly peaceful heart.
Tragedy often begins when an unhappy rich man marries a cheerful and happy commoner girl.
In 1982 his first wife, Kathy, disappeared from his country villa. Robert reported that they had an argument that night, and his wife took a train to New York by herself and was never seen again. There was an unbearable indifference and impatience that could not be concealed in his calm and indifferent statement, as if it had nothing to do with him. The case has since begun a protracted investigation and collection of evidence. What's more cruel than detective novels is that although a lot of sporadic evidence at the time pointed to Robert's murder, because no body was found, the truth of the case could only fall into the ice cave in time.
In 2000, a female prosecutor who wanted to make a big splash in politics overturned the case and the investigation was restarted. A close friend of Robert's for many years served as his media spokesman in the year of the incident. After 18 years, perhaps the insider she has mastered can become an important breakthrough in cracking the case. Soon, however, the close friend was killed at his Los Angeles home before the media arrived. A bullet went straight through the back of her head, like a quick and decisive execution.
After the incident, Robert was listed as the first suspect, and the pressure from the judiciary and public opinion was overwhelming. After spending $2.5 million on bail, the first thing Robert did was run away. In 2001, a year later, Robert's neighbor, who lived in Texas, was shot and dismembered. Robert was re-arrested, and he finally no longer had the chance to run away. This time, he will face the jury in court and accept his guilt and punishment.
If you think that the story ends here, you are naive.
The saying "money is everything" is true to a certain extent, especially in a country like the United States where everyone believes that the American dream can change their destiny. They brought in the best lawyers, of course. Coupled with the "inference of innocence" in American law, plus Robert's gentle look. The rebuttal begins with "Ask the jury to ignore the dismemberment of the victim, because the fact that he is dead cannot be saved without dismembering him, so what to do with his corpse is not an issue for this trial. The core of the problem is how he was killed. Our truth is that the deceased actively attacked the defendant, so the defendant did nothing but self-defense." A seamless defense. Because based on innocence, the prosecutor could not prove that it was not a self-defense.
No one thought that Robert would be acquitted of first-degree murder in court.
The director of HBO accidentally got an opportunity to interview Robert Durst in 2014. This interview, together with past video records and interview videos of people involved in the case, was cut into a documentary called "New York Disaster" . When answering why he didn't want children, Robert said: "I always felt that I was an unknown person who brought bad luck to the people around me. I don't want these bad luck to happen to the next generation." In the
interview, Robert told his first wife . When asked if he killed them, he stared blankly into the reporter's eyes and said with certainty, "No, I didn't do it."
The climax came in the last half-minute, when seventy-year-old Robert ended the interview and got up to go to the toilet to wash his hands, forgetting that the microphone on the leaderboard had not been turned off. The old man said to himself: 'What the hell did I do? ... Killed them all, of course.'
The whole film ends here. It turns out that he was full of lies throughout the whole episode of interviews. The only word from the bottom of his heart appeared at the beginning of the film. The reporter asked him how to describe the days when his mother was still around. He said: "Happy, happy, happy."
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