It's a strange combination of movie-of-the-week type melodrama and some actually very excellent filmmaking mixed in here and there. It does make me curious to know the facts behind the inspiration for this, but I do have to wonder exactly why this was made into a movie in the first place. It's extremely odd and disjointed, and clearly built on innuendo.
"I'll book you. I'll book you on something. I'll find something in the book to book you on."
** SPOILERS **
If you get the DVD, with commentaries, you will learn a lot more about this story.
The film-makers intensely researched the events, including interviewing anyone they could find that would be interviewed, for something like two years before making the movie.
As there still is 'mystery' to this case, they put together what they thought was the most credible explanation of events that they could, given the information they had, but we shall never really know I guess.
There is also info on the internet under 'Robert Durst' (the real 'David').
The DVD also has commentary by Durst himself & it is the most unusual DVD commentary I have ever listened to, to say the least -- he pretty much agrees with how the director portrayed a good bit of his life in the movie, except he was upset that they had him killing a dog (he said he would never have hurt his dog) and he remains mum about having anything to do with his wife's disappearance or Susie Berman's demise.
"We would have been fine, if there hadn't been any.....mess"
I think that the story is certainly bizarre. I mean there are so many what-the-hell moments in the movie. But I think that the WAY the film was done only adds to the bizarre nature of the film.
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