Has this been released yet? How is this being marketed and distributed? I know Unsub does not have much product out there, but this should be good for some real potential box office. Does anyone know a release date, and if the release is going to be theatrical or straight to DVD?
Thanks for the info about this....
I emailed the director a month ago about a dvd purchase and he said that they were first going for a theratrical release and then dvd.
I haven't heard anything about the release since then. Will keep you posted.
It is playing in Wichita, KS on February 25. There is also a Q&A with the director after the movie.
shareWow, I attended the premiere in Wichita, KS tonight. Good documentary. The director said that this film has been accepted into several California film festivals. Hope it does well!
share[deleted]
I thought the photos of the murdered family members was GRUESOME! I can't even imagine how Charlie, Danny & Carmen must have felt to see those crime scene photographs of their dear family, again (I'm assuming they have seen them before). Those photos of Josie & Joey were enough to make you want to vomit.
I very much enjoyed the Q&A session after the movie! Charlie is very personable.
You wonder how they felt when they saw the photos? They saw it in person!
shareHulu is airing it.
shareIt's currently streaming on Netflix.
I generally enjoy watching true crime documentaries but I have to say this one in particular was very disappointing. I had an unusually hard time understanding what was being said; I did not care for the camera work which, I guess, was striving to be artsy and cutting edge but was instead jarring and disruptive.
And as cold as it might sound, I really couldn't get invested in Charlie's journey. Aside from his tragic childhood, I didn't really see all that much about him that would garner sympathy. After about 40 minutes I figured he was just a man who was clearly almost destroyed psychologically and came back to be a relatively functioning adult. It was almost like watching Elmore Leonard
recount the murder of his mother when he was a child -- didn't get much into that either.
Just wasn't right for me.
Your message has me curious as to what true crime documentaries you have enjoyed, since you say you generally enjoy them, and also what exactly you enjoyed about them. I watch a lot of documentaries of all kinds, and the variation in direction is a big aspect of the genre. I've seen some very badly filmed ones, but I wouldn't put this one on the list. I didn't think it was trying to be "artsy" or "cutting edge" at all; it was doing what it says on the tin: documenting. Not everyone can be as polished as Errol Morris or Werner Herzog.
Of course your opinion is something you have the right to hold, but I'm not sure how someone can actively choose to watch a documentary about Charlie Otero and come away thinking about how little sympathy they feel for him. I don't believe that was the point at all, and, frankly, I don't think Charlie would give two craps for your sympathy or anyone else's. But it seems kind of detached to me that you "couldn't get invested in Charlie's journey." And then write something like "aside from his tragic childhood?" It sounds like you're treating this film as a fictional tale during which you should be able to eat popcorn. Charlie's childhood wasn't an "aside." It shaped the rest of his life, and if you're going to be so glib about it... Well, that just sounds so, so strange.
Your last sentence is spot on, though. Doesn't sound like the genre is for you at all.
First off, I find your reply simmering with juvenile superciliousness just under the surface. Because I might not love the documentary that you seem to love, then clearly I must be a glib, popcorn-munching dolt in your universe. I think it's unfortunate, for you, that you would view people with opposing tastes this way.
To answer your question, for which I doubt you even want an answer:
Cocaine Cowboys
Crazy Love
The Thin Blue Line
Letter to Zachary
Capturing the Friedmans
The Trials of Darryl Hunt
The Imposter
Feel free to reply, but I'm done chatting with you. Be well.
No I agree with dedoc, and I'll add my own opinions on Charlie too: he came off as a very negative, self-defeating, somewhat bitter man-child. He's been and out of prison since he was a young man and fathered three children by three different women. Maybe seeing the murdered remains of his family as a teen certainly added fuel to the fire; but his other siblings seemed to turn out just fine, no? They didn't spend everyday after the court hearings getting hammered with their multiple-personality friends and flirting with any chick in site; nor did they brag about wishing a homosexual author dead and said author being found dead the next day.
Charlie clearly states towards the end of the film that he is glad that "he never turned towards the dark side...." Well I'm sorry, but when you lead a lifetime of crime, your son (that you clearly state was "a mistake" to have in the first place) just magically gets brain-injured at the very MOMENT you're discussing how you might hold a supernatural influence in Capote's death... I say you are a magnet of darkness, not of the light. They could have picked a more likeable survivor/subject for this doc IMO... or at least someone more rational.
Just sayin'...
Thanks for your post Electric.
I watched this doc as I generally like true crime doc's. Overall I would say I enjoyed it but I would say I felt the same about Charlie as you did. He is the protagonist of the film so it effects the viewing experience.