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How about some title cards for the people speaking?


What a sad story, so many questions that'll probably never be answered. Stuff like this bothers me greatly. But seriously, we don't know who half these people being interviewed are in relation to Joyce. We know some are her friends, and one is her ex. Were some of them sisters or other family members? Co-workers? Neighbors? Usually they put the persons name/relation to the main subject multiple times in print on the screen, some movies do it EVERY time a new person speaks.

Did my copy not contain titles for some reason, or was everyone's like that?




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I'd like to have seen titles as well. They aren't on the Netflix version I watched either. It would have helped a great deal.

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I just watched this documentary a couple days ago with a friend. We ended up having to watch it on Youtube because Netflix was no longer carrying it. I believe there were title cards but maybe they didn't show them every time. Also, my friend and I prefer to watch things with closed captioning on and the cc would appear over where the titles would be. However I do believe they were there, but maybe they didn't show them every time someone spoke. Maybe only for their first appearance?

Also, I believe there was talk in the docu about the fact that for reasons unknown, Joyce was not close with her family. They did mention her father and the reenactment seemed to show him leaving her at a young age. I'm not sure if that is exactly what they were trying to show but it showed Joyce as a child, seeming to be walking home from school, to see her father leaving the house with a suitcase. Was he leaving the home for good or was he just going to work? I'm not sure. None of her family was shown in the documentary. As far as co-workers, I don't think they showed any either even though in a few brief flashbacks they did show Joyce at work. As far as neighbors, maybe none were familiar with her? After all her corpse was in her apartment for three years and no one seemed to think to check on her.

Of the people who were interviewed, as you said, one was her ex. One of the other men seemed to be a friend of the ex who was sweet on Joyce but never acted on that after getting into it with her ex about it. I'd like to watch the film again to hopefully pick up information that I may have missed.

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