Eight years after the case ended, Netflix released a documentary that restored the entire investigation process of the case. The significance of this documentary is far beyond answering a question of "What is the truth of the incident?" It includes the perspectives of netizens and explores the influence of users on the development of social media in the early days of social media. After the individual’s own curiosity and satisfaction of exploration are fermented in social media with the characteristics of freedom of expression, social media has become a carrier of rumors and violence, spawning the mainstream group’s malice against marginalized groups and the breeding of online violence. The unprecedented "truth" of conspiracy theories. It was never the case itself that turned this case into a mystery, but the outsiders who "carved" on the Internet.
On the other hand, this documentary wants to show a positive side. It uses a lot of Elisa's posts on Tumblr, trying to restore the history of a girl with bipolar disorder struggling with the disease, and the subsequent impact of her post after Elisa's death. As an interviewee said in the film
”Her legacy lives. And just being here with everyone. She's not quite gone.”
As above, the way users use social media affects its form and meaning. It can also positively affect other people who are plagued by mental illness like Elisa, prolonging the value of an individual. Users matter, for both tech and other users. Pay attention to bipolar disorder, pay attention to mental illness, say more about love.
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