Netflix's latest documentary worth watching.
On December 18, 2019, the documentary "Don't F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer" appeared on Netflix. The three episodes are about 1 hour each. It tells the story of Luka Magnotta, a narcissistic perverted murderer who killed Lin Jun, an international student from Wuhan, in Montreal, Canada in 2012 and was eventually caught.
From publishing cat abuse videos on the Internet to escalating crimes, Magnotta treated people as objects of abuse, recorded videos of killing and insulting corpses and spread them all over the Internet, and sent the body parts to the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa, etc. (Send the body head of the Liberal Party was stopped at the post office), fled Canada, and was finally caught by the police while checking the information about his wanted online at an Internet cafe in Germany.
It's 2019, and I don't even know who is sitting on the other side of the computer. The murderer who wants to get eyeballs and left a lot of information on the Internet, and the netizen who is angry with the dignitaries and cat abusers. Also because of the peculiarity of this case being entangled with the Internet and social media, the perspective of this Netflix documentary focuses more on the two people who have been actively following the murderer (manhunt) on the Facebook group since the initial video of the murderer's cat abuse was spread online. ) friends. They appeared in the documentary, told their own mental journey, and slowly rolled out the timeline of this event from beginning to end.
Although animal activists are often ridiculed for their extreme behavior and putting the cart before the horse, the Chinese translation of the film's title, in my opinion, is interesting and a little grandstanding. And in this documentary, the part of the cat-loving netizens who tracked the murderer seems to make some people feel that this documentary values cats more than human victims. However, one point I see is that a person's brutality of animal cruelty does reveal the person's underlying psychopathic personality and the potential for this abnormal behavior to escalate. Cat cruelty is an act of cruelty to animals, which is not as serious as murder, but even from the point of view of non-animal lovers, the act of cruelty to animals also shows the abnormality and cruelty of the person's psychology, implying that there is a lot of cruelty to human beings. Threats should be taken seriously.
Families are incomplete, childhood bullying, animal cruelty, and basically all the Magnotta that serial killers should have. He should still have a bit of a performative personality, and many of his behaviors were influenced by some American psycho movies he watched, and even some imitations of the movie plots during the killing and interrogation process. From the perspective of criminal psychology, Magnotta's behavior should belong to the more classic murderer, but our society does not have Sibilla, and we cannot cure patients before they are terminally ill. Tragedy is inevitable.
During the documentary, the two netizens also began to reflect on whether their actions brought the attention he wanted to the murderer, causing him to escalate his crime. At the end of the film, everyone is encouraged to leave the Internet.
Indeed, we should return to real life. But I don't think it's the internet that makes the homicidal maniacs, or that there's anything wrong with following crime news online. Consider that the then Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo was not recognized because the Soviet government at the time considered serial killers to be a product of capitalism. From ancient times to the present, there has been no shortage of recorded and undiscovered murderers of all races and cultures. We can never avoid this kind of abnormality caused by people's environment and personality. We can only use better technology, criminal investigation methods, more professional investigators, and better laws to reduce harm and catch the murderer faster. As ordinary people, watching more crime news can help us improve our awareness of prevention in our daily life. For example, single women should pay attention to following, lock the door immediately when they go home at night, and avoid revealing personal information.
Regarding the netizens who are good at being a detective and solving cases, my attitude is that it is the most important thing for individuals to do their own work well. Playing the game of being a detective online is actually not very helpful in most cases. Not everyone can reach the level of an easy chair detective, and it should be left to professionals.
The police even let the murderer run from Canada to France and from France to Germany for several days without catching the murderer even when they knew the real identity of the murderer... Handling the case is like a child's play. It should be difficult for such a thing to happen within the scope of China's eyes.
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