Predators

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Erik Oct 22 Good but a little self-important at the end and never really covered the deterrence angle See more Ed Sep 29 It fills one in on what happened to the show To Catch a Predator. A few moments drag a bit too long but overall an opportunity to understand the dynamics of show. See more TheFilmCritics @TheFilmCritics Aug 30 Justice makes strange television, and Predators is at its most compelling when it asks why we enjoyed watching it happen. David Osit’s documentary revisits To Catch a Predator with fascinating archival footage and a welcome refusal to frame the series as either heroic public service or pure exploitation. Its sharpest insight is that the real discomfort lies not only in the televised humiliation, but in the audience’s appetite for righteous spectacle. The film becomes less focused when it expands into internet vigilantism, true-crime culture and amateur sleuthing, sometimes raising provocative ideas without fully developing them. Its contemplative pace can also feel meandering, but the questions linger. By making a familiar piece of early-2000s television feel unsettlingly strange again, Predators delivers a thoughtful, if imperfect, examination of justice as entertainment. See more Andreas G @Tomatonatorthethird Aug 22 I feel like if edp445 and Dr disrespect ever watched this, their eyes would open in amazement See more Maria K @RT87028900 Aug 20 If anything is eye opening to you in this documentary, you need to do a lot of personal growth. The most disturbing and disgusting "predator" is mr. Omit himself in his desire to protect molesters. See more Honour H @RT76281691 Aug 13 Self-important mess. An attempt to add nuance to a situation without any. The main angle of this documentary is to basically suggest that it was wrong for the predators involved in TCAP to have had a true account of the thing that they said themselves online to a child, itself be published online. They believe it to be in appropriate for the truth to be available publicly on a censorship free internet. Very odd take for a documentary of this length to explore, whilst never exploring any countering opinions. The ending shows that the documentary maker clearly thought they had some kind of groundbreaking take as they attempted a chilling outro scene that reflected the same camera setup as TCAP used back in the day.. but seeing this at the end of one and a half hours of people standing up for the privacy of people who showed up to ruin a child’s life in the first place honestly just made me sigh. I regret wasting my time on this. See more Read all reviews

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