Rob SPOILERS


The image of Rob's corpse will haunt me. That was gruesome, disturbing and sad. He seemed like a really likeable guy.

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Yes, and it wasn't really necessary to show it. I wish the documentary had been less voyeuristic in several occasions, and had left Rob his dignity in death. Quite crass.

Also, in a documentary filled with criminals and drug addicts, Jon (the director / "interviewer") seemed to be the least sympathetic and most sociopathic of all. Sometimes appearing to be staging human misery and taking a problematic non-intervention stance (while sometimes lecturing his subjects).

When a guy threatens and terrorises his pregnant girlfriend (which we learn he once hit with a baseball bat...) at the beginning Jon doesn't intervene (or try to get someone to intervene) at all and instead, minutes later, hovers above the poor girl crying in bed, her face into the pillow, to ask her questions. But Jon has no problems lecturing Freddie about courage and how he should turn himself in when he skips parole near the end of the documentary.

Make up you mind Jon: either you decide to be an unobtrusive documenter, or you decide to participate in the story of the people whose lives you're documenting, in which case your actions (or lack thereof) and words reflect on your moral character as a human being.

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