While watching the first four episodes, I wanted to give one star.
My feeling is that compared to Making a Murderer, the documentary is way too dramatic.
Putting the most terrifying and terrifying plot at the beginning is enough to scare or attract the audience, but it does not help the audience to understand the time sequence and causality.
And then repeatedly mentioned the process of dismembering the body again and again through pictures and words, but there is very little analysis and demonstration process, which makes people have to suspect that the director is just using this gimmick to create an atmosphere. Disgusting and tiresome.
Second, the people interviewed kept talking nonsense that neither promoted the plot nor showed the analysis. They were just exaggerating emotions, and the rhythm was so boring that one just wanted to fast-forward.
Finding actors to "restore" possible circumstances of the crime is very cinematic, but it makes people feel very impersonal and childish, similar to the means of a thriller.
Maybe I was expecting it at the level of Making a Murderer, so I had to be disappointed. From this point of view, "Making a Murderer" is truly a masterpiece due to its adequacy of materials, smooth narrative techniques, and clear logic.
But I have to admit that "The Jinx" is really good at mobilizing the audience's psychology and rendering the horror atmosphere.
At the end of episode 6, even though I was spoiled for the ending, I couldn't help my whole body go uncontrollably when the director Jarecki confronted Bob Durst with the handwriting on the envelope and Durst said that in the bathroom. trembling. The music effect is like magic, grabbing my heart and doing a demonic dance.
But just as this film is praised with the reputation of "reversal", I think I can give three stars after seeing the fifth episode - for the director's courage and contribution. The courage lies in looking at Durst, who has repeatedly been nervous and cold-blooded in front of the camera, I feel that I will be shivering with fear when I appear on the same occasion, let alone sitting within an arm's distance of him and talking face-to-face, and making an appointment with him. talk. The contribution is that as the filming progressed, two letters with extremely similar handwriting were discovered, and this is likely to become a new breakthrough. Even Durst himself said to himself: "It's unlikely that the spelling mistakes were made by different people." (If I'm not mistaken who said it)
The thing that chills me the most is the magical existence of Durst, who is especially cunning and shrewd for a while. , for a while it seems to be extremely stupid; for a while he can turn any lie to the past, and for a while he slips the tongue but still maintains a face that has nothing to do with him. Every now and then he felt like he was talking about another unrelated person when he spoke of Bob Durst.
The name of the movie The Jinx actually comes from Durst's evaluation of children. He doesn't like raising children and thinks that children will be his disaster star (the jinx). What if he was never born into this world?
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