I caught this documentary in bits and pieces during several re-airings across HBO channels, but it was pretty clear the victim and her family wasn't a part of this. And after I realized that, I wasn't interested in watching all of it.
Yeah it makes it less worth investing in because you assume that there would be more about the victim eventually considering how many directions they could have taken it if they had.
The movie could have been so much more with that perspective included in the film but I understand why the victims family may not have wanted to participate.
However the film does feel a bit incomplete without that added angle to it.
Personally I was curious about the victim, how her family felt or what they thought or what the community may have thought etc but it just stuck with the attackers families and the attackers thoughts, feelings and experience.
My biggest disappointment since it became a topic later on in the film is the small bit with the "scientists and psychological professionals" statements explaining mental instability and sickness. Mental instability issues angle didn't get a lot of screen time so in the end it made the movie feel like it was a side note rather than a center focus even though they stated that mental illness was the largest thing to blame for the one girl.
There was a frequent issue of "oh there's this" but "no point in bringing this up", "oh there's that" but "no reason for bringing that up either" in this movie.
The movie could have been so much more with that perspective included in the film but I understand why the victims family may not have wanted to participate.
However the film does feel a bit incomplete without that added angle to it.
Personally I was curious about the victim, how her family felt or what they thought or what the community may have thought etc but it just stuck with the attackers families and the attackers thoughts, feelings and experience.
My biggest disappointment since it became a topic later on in the film is the small bit with the "scientists and psychological professionals" statements explaining mental instability and sickness. Mental instability issues angle didn't get a lot of screen time so in the end it made the movie feel like it was a side note rather than a center focus even though they stated that mental illness was the largest thing to blame for the one girl.
There was a frequent issue of "oh there's this" but "no point in bringing this up", "oh there's that" but "no reason for bringing that up either" in this movie.