Crime documentaries, especially when shooting such cases with strong suspense, must have a strong interest in investigating crimes and professional investigative knowledge. Unfortunately, the film has neither of them. In four hours, the audience watched it babbling, cosplaying, and pitiful, but the most core case itself was scribbled. In the super-long section, only 30 minutes before and after the case is really relevant, which leads to a considerable number of viewers who have a deep interest in the case.
Especially in this drama, under the guise of not participating in the Internet frenzy, a group of Internet celebrities retelled their various speculations about the Lan Keer case from various angles. In fact, they have brought out the outdated Internet rumors and fired them again. It doesn't help the case, and it obscures the focus of the film. The Los Angeles police’s incompetent performance without reflection in the film and the hotel manager’s shirking of responsibility should be the focus of a crime documentary depicting the discussion. As a result, the director seems to have agreed with them in the end. The way to deal with it. I can even imagine the expression of the director shrugging and spreading his hands at the end of the filming. The typical Baizuo thinking, wanting to photograph the so-called social influence, shines the spotlight on the various strange powers of the Internet celebrities in the case, and does not dig into the doubts of the case itself, such as: parents know their daughter’s spirit The situation is abnormal, why let her travel alone? Why has the video tape been edited? Who made the editing anyway? Why did the police put the video on the Internet and not allow the Internet to participate in investigating the crime afterwards? Why has the post-mortem report been revised, it is really a clerical error? Why is the top cover of the water tank open (Is it open? If it is open, why did the police not see it when inspecting the roof?) Why does mania choose to dive into the water tank instead of simply jumping off the building? Why do you recover your sanity the moment you jump into the water tank and then take off your clothes? So many questions are answered vaguely in this film, or they are passed along, or they accept the testimony of the parties in their entirety, without analyzing the case itself, naturally the accountability behind the case is also skipped. For example, the obvious racial contempt in the case, the technical error of the police, the malfunction of the hotel system, etc., were so easily let go.
When I saw the ratio of the web celebrities and metal singers in the film, I understood why Lan Keer’s friends and family did not appear in this film. This is right, so that this kind of film that sells dog meat can not get their self-righteous sensationalism and moving, and let it be a bad film and be forgotten in the history of the Lan Keer case.
Finally, I hope Lan Keer rests in peace. For 8 years, no matter what happened at the beginning, I hope she is already in the light. Lan Keer's family members also hope that they will come out now.
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