I tend to read up on cases and then watch documentaries afterwards in hopes to listen to survivor's perspectives and learn more about the victims and how they have been memorialised etc.
I do not watch documentaries for the director and his biased opinions. He inserts himself into the film unnecessarily at so many points, he practically congratulates himself on not mentioning the shooter's name and he asks incredibly insensitive questions to his subjects.
He clearly has gone into this project with one motive; to blame the police officers involved and try and convince everyone it was their fault and not the fault of the madman who killed many innocents. He repeatedly pins blame on the cops he's interviewing and asks them why they didn't do X,Y,Z instead - to which he receives perfectly acceptable answers to and proceeds to ignore them. He basically tells them they should feel more guilt and that it's their fault people died. It's incredibly insulting and difficult to watch without feeling very angry at the director, particularly with one of the first responders who he's interviewing who is clearly still very much in pain over the incident.
As well as this, actual footage from the crime scene is included throughout. He repeatedly displays footage of victims lying dead on the floor - including babies and children. He repeats the same clips over and over throughout seemingly as filler while survivors are being interviewed in the background. I have seen many images and videos from crime scenes from my research as I study cases like this, and this is something that shouldn't be put in a documentary in my opinion, yet alone with no disclaimer or a hint of permission from the victim's families. It seems as if the director is going for 'shock value' and at no point does he display tact in how he presents the footage, with awfully tacky dramatic music added and repeats of the same clips. Incredibly disrespectful.
All in all this documentary shows no tact or compassion from the director, who seems to be intent on forcing his egotistical and ignorant opinions on viewers rather than respecting and remembering victims of this tragedy.
I do not watch documentaries for the director and his biased opinions. He inserts himself into the film unnecessarily at so many points, he practically congratulates himself on not mentioning the shooter's name and he asks incredibly insensitive questions to his subjects.
He clearly has gone into this project with one motive; to blame the police officers involved and try and convince everyone it was their fault and not the fault of the madman who killed many innocents. He repeatedly pins blame on the cops he's interviewing and asks them why they didn't do X,Y,Z instead - to which he receives perfectly acceptable answers to and proceeds to ignore them. He basically tells them they should feel more guilt and that it's their fault people died. It's incredibly insulting and difficult to watch without feeling very angry at the director, particularly with one of the first responders who he's interviewing who is clearly still very much in pain over the incident.
As well as this, actual footage from the crime scene is included throughout. He repeatedly displays footage of victims lying dead on the floor - including babies and children. He repeats the same clips over and over throughout seemingly as filler while survivors are being interviewed in the background. I have seen many images and videos from crime scenes from my research as I study cases like this, and this is something that shouldn't be put in a documentary in my opinion, yet alone with no disclaimer or a hint of permission from the victim's families. It seems as if the director is going for 'shock value' and at no point does he display tact in how he presents the footage, with awfully tacky dramatic music added and repeats of the same clips. Incredibly disrespectful.
All in all this documentary shows no tact or compassion from the director, who seems to be intent on forcing his egotistical and ignorant opinions on viewers rather than respecting and remembering victims of this tragedy.
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