This was a fantastic expose, not of the Elisa Lam story, which was a tragedy and well covered by this documentary, but of the narcissistic self serving internet sleuths of this era. These sleuths' mental illness is much more subtle than Elisa's. They sadly seem to have such little in their own lives that they become can become so engrossed in the mystery of her death, demonstrate behaviors indicating they truly believe this is about them solving the case that nobody else can. Spending thousands of hours within the confines of the internet because they "must know" and must have closure is the height of self-centeredness. To feed their delusions of grand sleuthing abilities, they accuse the hotel, the police, and the coroner of incompetence, conspiracy, and doctoring the elevator video because those ideas are more interesting than what really happened. They even destroy a man's life who is just trying to build his career as a metal musician just because they didn't have the facts. This documentary does a great job of telling the true story of what happened to Elisa Lam while at the same time showing in detail the way that lack of complete information can send the uninformed down paths which can be quite destructive to themselves and others. A folie a monde if you will. It does a great job of bringing attention to the severity of untreated bipolar disorder and perhaps also can help those sleuths and all of us to be more careful in how we interpret information in our limited capacities.
