Because he can't have escaped and changed his identity again not if he agreed to do this documentary because they would find him. I fail to believe he'd get out of jail at all let alone so soon. Especially because he was making calls from his jail cell still upsetting families!
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if you look on Youtube there is a clip of him saying that when he got a cat it changed his perspective on life and he gave up posing as other people.
He spent (I think) 6 years in jail and so he's basically been free for the last decade - I also find it hard to believe he would turn over a completely new leaf after a lifetime of deceit but I have seen remarkable changes in people over the course of 10 years, no reason to think he couldn't have found someone gullible and sold them a sob-story that they believed.
He's done it before ;)
Finally read the New Yorker article today and it's cleared up in there:
When I last saw Bourdin, this spring, his life had undergone perhaps its most dramatic transformation. He had married a Frenchwoman, Isabelle, whom he had met two years earlier. In her late twenties, Isabelle was slim and pretty and soft-spoken. She was studying to be a lawyer. A victim of family abuse, she had seen Bourdin on television, describing his own abuse and his quest for love, and she had been so moved that she eventually tracked him down. “I told him what interests me in his life wasn’t the way he bent the truth but why he did that and the things that he looked for,” she said.share
Bourdin says that when Isabelle first approached him he thought it must be a joke, but they met in Paris and gradually fell in love. He said that he had never been in a relationship before. “I’ve always been a wall,” he said. “A cold wall.” On August 8, 2007, after a year of courtship, they got married at the town hall of a village outside Pau.
Bourdin’s mother says that Frédéric invited her and his grandfather to the ceremony, but they didn’t go. “No one believed him,” she says.
When I saw Isabelle, she was nearly eight months pregnant. Hoping to avoid public attention, she and Frédéric had relocated to Le Mans, and they had moved into a small one-bedroom apartment in an old stone building with wood floors and a window that overlooked a prison. “It reminds me of where I’ve been,” Bourdin said. A box containing the pieces of a crib lay on the floor of the sparsely decorated living room. Bourdin’s hair was now cropped, and he was dressed without flamboyance, in jeans and a sweatshirt. He told me that he had got a job in telemarketing. Given his skills at persuasion, he was unusually good at it. “Let’s just say I’m a natural,” he said.
That's a really touching account of how Frederic met his wife. I hope that their marriage and family heal their respective demons.
Why do you refuse to remember me?share
A professional telemarketer? Wow, you'd think he'd put his smarts to something a little more respectable than telemarketing?
shareI also found this to be one of the most surprising revelations in the film. How could such a maladjusted, manipulative and damaged individual have reformed enough to lead a 'normal' life?
A very interesting documentary though - quite unique its execution!
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From what I gathered, the whole reasoning behind his literal identity crises, was that he wanted unconditional love. I guess having that cat helped him overcome his mental problem, since an animal will show you nothing but love if you treat them right and something might have clicked as a result. So it makes sense that he had a complete turn around after meeting his wife and starting a family, since that's all he seemed to have really wanted. Needless to say, his story would make quite the dinner conversation.
My only question was why he called all those families when he was finally detained. My only guess would be he wanted them to feel some kind of hope, or (more than likely) he was at such an unstable mental state at that point that he just couldn't control himself.
Because sponges never have bad days.