fred&edna
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I heard through the grapevine the documentary will be dropped soon.
Thank you for the heads-up. Maybe it will be worthwhile... I'm still a bit unsure.
I heard through the grapevine the documentary will be dropped soon.
I agree. He was a regular dude from Louisiana who of his own choice lived estranged from family in another part of the US. He worked and battled his longterm mental illness and just happened to die on a hiking trip and nobody knew it was him.Thank you for the heads-up. Maybe it will be worthwhile... I'm still a bit unsure.
Are you going to see it at the festival?![]()
They Called Him Mostly Harmless - Florida Film Festival
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Probably not. My birthday is the 13th and I have plans on the 15th.Are you going to see it at the festival?
Hmmm. I don't think of him as a bad, bad man.
The documentary is soon to be released.
Me either, and it makes me mad that they would try to create the sense that he was a monster just to draw in viewers. We canceled our subscription to Max this morning because of this.Hmmm. I don't think of him as a bad, bad man.
There was a preview in April of last year but I couldn't go. Not much longer to wait now!Have any of you seen the documentary yet?
No, not yet. I'm hoping it's going to be factual rather than sensationalist.Have any of you seen the documentary yet?
It seems like an oversimplification that internet detectives following MH's trail did so to find purpose and their own identity to reclaim agency. Either that or it's a bit too lofty a premise.This Variety article tries to spell out what the documentary is about.
Gillespie: To me, the story was never about him. It was about what his story meant to other people. And it’s a story about finding yourself when you’re looking for somebody else. There are a lot of people, overwhelmingly women, who are finding purpose and identity in (internet detective work). Many of the people you see in the film might not have been afforded the opportunity to lead or feel powerful in other spaces in their lives. This internet sleuthing world and the true crime community is a way for them to reclaim that agency and try to do something good for people.
Agreed, as a journalist who's covered lots of homicides, missing persons cases and the occasional unidentified remains case, the plain old facts first drew me in. With all the photos that poured in of him, the case should have been solved in days, not years.It seems like an oversimplification that internet detectives following MH's trail did so to find purpose and their own identity to reclaim agency. Either that or it's a bit too lofty a premise.
The documentarians kind of gloss over the fact that the reason MH created a connection with internet sleuths the world over, is that he was so different than thousands of other UID's. He had hundreds of interactions with people while hiking, spending the evening with them, eating with them and most importantly, having his picture taken with them or by them. He left a pictural essay of his life as MH.
He never seemed to overtly hide his true identity, especially since there seemed to be a subculture amongst those who hiked the trail often; that the AP allowed them to leave their regular identities behind and claim an alter ego. In that, he wasn't unusual. What was unusual was that he started out a virgin hiker, carrying too heavy a load and as the hike grew longer his load became less. And he became less, too. We see the slow unraveling of his physical health yet no fellow hikers mentioned that.
I think a lot of people, myself included, romanticized MH's persona and his unknown quest. I don't mean in the pedestrian way of romance but more in the way an author can get us into the head of the protagonist. There's an unbelievable sadness to the chronicle of MH because we were able to track his destination to his demise without ever really knowing the Why. The Who became irrelevant and the Why became the focus. His ultimate outing as a disturbed individual who was emotionally and physically abusive yet could play an epic rendition of Nothing Else Matters on the piano without any fanfare keeps him an enigma to me.
I realize I'm just yelling in the wind trying to chastise the Daily Mail, but this article lifts whole paragraphs of my work.
Ah, it's fine. I chose to take a back seat after my last story published and I'll have to live with it.I knew something was wrong with that article. It was the first Daily Mail article I've read that was factual. You could always contact her through X and let her know she plagiarized your work.