True Story (2015)
Bumped into this story as I was checking on the second season of 'True Stories'. Initially, the movie was getting interesting as a mass murderer is arrested with a pseudonym that of the protagonist of the film, Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill). Finkel is an award winning journalist with the New York Times who was fired from his job for being untruthful in his reporting. As he was brooding in his misery in a secret hideaway in the wilderness, he is informed of this case.
He decides to visit the inmate. Hence starts a series of interview with a disturbed man, Christian Longo (James Franco) who killed his wife and three children. Finkel gets absorbed into the man's story and is convinced that he may be a victim of circumstance.
After that, the story becomes draggy and uninteresting as Longo, in his soft hypnotic dialogues, makes the film a bore to watch. In his actual trial, the accused tells his feats of killing his family to the jury. It appears as if the killer is actually just clamouring for attention and Finkel is just a pawn in his endeavour.
The whole feat of watching the film is attempt in futility - waste of time, time better spent sleeping.
Bumped into this story as I was checking on the second season of 'True Stories'. Initially, the movie was getting interesting as a mass murderer is arrested with a pseudonym that of the protagonist of the film, Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill). Finkel is an award winning journalist with the New York Times who was fired from his job for being untruthful in his reporting. As he was brooding in his misery in a secret hideaway in the wilderness, he is informed of this case.
He decides to visit the inmate. Hence starts a series of interview with a disturbed man, Christian Longo (James Franco) who killed his wife and three children. Finkel gets absorbed into the man's story and is convinced that he may be a victim of circumstance.
After that, the story becomes draggy and uninteresting as Longo, in his soft hypnotic dialogues, makes the film a bore to watch. In his actual trial, the accused tells his feats of killing his family to the jury. It appears as if the killer is actually just clamouring for attention and Finkel is just a pawn in his endeavour.
The whole feat of watching the film is attempt in futility - waste of time, time better spent sleeping.
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