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One thing that annoyed me about the documentary


is that there were no names and occupations of the people speaking presented on the screen. Some new person would start talking and you had no idea who they were and you could kind of guess after a few minutes on what side they were, but you still didn't know their exact role in the case. I found it really annoying and it weakened an otherwise very good documentary.

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That was my beef with it too! I read about the case after and then have to try and associate various participants with the subject matter which, to me, is not what a documentary is about. Other than that it's a very interesting story

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I actually found that challenging, it kept the interest going. Well, you could guess who most everyone was and what they did within a matter of seconds, if you paid attention anyway.
Dunno if it was done on purpose, but if it was, I think it was clever on the director's part.

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In some cases the name and/or occupation was stated via story telling by the person that appeared before.

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