This is a very well made documentary. The balance is just about perfect between home movies and current day interviews. It wisely starts in the current time then goes back and tells a story that builds and builds, and gets stranger and stranger, up to the heartbreaking climax. It then gives us insight on the fallout before taking us back to the current time. It's very much to the credit of the filmmakers that they don't overly vilify Du Pont -- they show him as being worthy of pity as well as contempt, and show that in many ways he was a wonderful benefactor who took it too far. The storytelling is chilling. The conclusion that, as Danielle says at the end that the whole thing is just sad is accurate. Everyone suffered, everyone got hurt. Rather than sensationalize the story, it puts real people and faces and emotions front and center. Really exceptional production.
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